The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-06
THE WORLD
TODAY
BY JAMES MARROW

records IN iawmaking by the time
| it does end this session. 1t hasn't
done much in the form of major
legislation yet.
| Some of its hardness is under
standable, particularly on the
money bills. The Eew Eisenhower
Administration needed time to
look over President Truman's bud
get and try TO cut it down. 1t sent
| up its recommendations late
| President Eisenhower himself,
much to many peoples surprise,
has been able to maintain with
Congress the same friendly rela-
tionship he insisted upon from the
time he stepped into the White
1 House.
4 It's already paid some dividends,
although not 100 per cent by any
means.
This week at a White House con-
ference with his Republican lead
ers in Congress, he got them to
abandon an idea they seemed bent
on pushing through: threatening to
shut off U. S. money for the United
Nations if Red China were adj
mitted.
Eisenhower said he doesn't want
Red China in the U. N. either
but he said threatening the u. N.
was poor way % Illustrate the
| Communists.
| At the same time he has a man
size job on his hands trying to
| get the Allies to see the American
viewpoint. Some of them, Britain,
| for instance, think Red China
should be admitted when there's
settlement of the war in Korea.
| Eisenhower wanted Congress to
extend the reciprocal trade agree
ments act without changes that
would shut out more foreign goods
| than had been excluded in years.
| There was an attempt TO write
heavy restrictions into the act. But
this week, also, Eisenhower won
victory by approving a mild COM
promise in the House bill. 1t seems
likely to sail through pretty much
as he wanted, and AZ time when
i he is trying to encourage free
world trade.
He has handled his relations with
| Congress so carefully, in public
anyway, that no one in Congress
has expressed any personal hos
tility to the man in the White
House. But that doesn't mean he
can smile his way through all the
time.
| He's had some setbacks and may
have more before this session
ends.
His own Republican leaders
| brushed him aside on his request
for congressional approval of a
resolution to condemn Russia for
breaking wartime agreements and
enslaVing the people of Eastern
Europe.
His leaders wanted to add
criticism of former Democratic
Presidents Truman and Roosevelt
who had made the agreements with
the Russians.
The Democrats baked, saying
they'd vote for Eisenhower idea,
but not for the revised version.
| The Republican leadership, know
ing it didn't have enough votes in
its own ranks to outvote the Dem
ocratS, ditched the whole business.
Eisenhower didn't put up any
fight on the resolution. Maybe he
didn't look on it as a major issue
anyway. But he has also been
brushed aside on two major issues
he has talked of wanting.
| One was admission Of Hawaii as
the 49th state and the other was
changes in the Hartley labor
act. Statehood for Hawaii has been
fgetting the go-by, but Republican
leaders are now talking about max.
ing it the next order OF business
in the Senate in an effort 10 win
approval. RevisionS OF TIL at this
session is practically a lost cause.
For the failure on TIL Eisen-
hover can probably blame himself
more than anyone else. There were
lengthy Congressional hearings on
reyiSions in the labor act. But
Eisenhower sent no recommends.
tons to Congress, either directly
from the White House or through
Secretary of Labor Durkin.
| This Eisenhower Durkin silence
was astonishing 20 many. Durkin.
while a union leader before heeonl-
ing secretary, said he thought the
whole TIL act should be wiped olYi.
After becoming secretary. Dnrkln
said il could be kept il changed,
| but be never appeared before
committee 10 express the admin.
lstration's views nor did he make
any recommendation in public.
4 Eisenhower viii face enc of bis
biggest and moss critical tests or
taxes. He asked Coawress not Ia
reduce taxes thas year bsit 10 ex.
tend the excess profits tax. due II
end June 90. unasl rec. 81. There
! is strong Uppasisea Ia TIE Capitol
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