Pushing Ahead

In addition to answering Premier Bulganin's treaty offer and press-conference questions on his political future, Dwight Eisenhower last week pushed ahead on a wide variety of constructive projects. During his busy week the President:

P:Sent to Congress a message requesting a fiveyear, $250 million federal program to expand medical research and teaching facilities. Among the appropriations suggested: $22 million for heart disease research. His report pointed up the remarkable progress in health insurance (see MEDICINE).

P: Urged Congress not to let argument over an anti-segregation amendment hold up passage of the $1.6 billion, four-year school-construction bill on the grounds that "the need of the American children for schools is today" and that "the Supreme Court in reaching its [antisegregation] decision . . . specifically provided that there be gradual implementation." (Prospects that Congress would agree brightened last week, then grew dimmer. Under pressure from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and New York's Representative Adam Clayton Powell, organized labor, which had apparently supported Ike's stand, began to backtrack. At week's end Walter Reuther made it clear that unless the Administration promised to withhold federal funds from segregated schools his powerful United Auto Workers would throw its influence behind a filibuster-provoking anti-segregation amendment to wreck the school bill.)

P: Appointed as his special assistant on foreign policy, 54-year-old Investment Banker William H. Jackson, onetime deputy director of Central Intelligence Agency. Jackson will replace Nelson Rockefeller, who recently resigned.

P:Met three times with Secretary of State Dulles to prepare for this week's discussion of international problems with Sir Anthony Eden and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd.

P: Supported a Dulles plea that the Arab-Israeli issue be kept out of the 1956 presidential campaign with the comment that "the great principles and policies that guide our foreign relationships should be absolutely a bipartisan affair," but that if people were dissatisfied with the Administration's methods in foreign affairs, "it is certainly their privilege to criticize." *

P: Strongly urged Congress to authorize U.S. membership in the Organization for Trade Cooperation (see below).

* Democrats Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Walter Reuther promptly put the Israel question back in U.S. politics with a joint statement calling for more guns for Israel.

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