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P: The Senate confirmed the appointment of Homer Ferguson, former G.O.P. Senator from Michigan and now U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, to a $25,000-a-year position on the Court of Military Appeals, highest military appeals tribunal. Also confirmed was Robert Bowie as Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning. Predicted Senate opposition to Bowie collapsed when he denied that, as director of State's Policy Planning Staff, he had advocated admission of Red China to the United Nations.

P: Alarmed by reports that the Administration is yielding to pleas from Britain to ease East-West trade restrictions, the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee opened hearings on the current state of trade with the Communist bloc. In its line of questioning, the subcommittee made plain that its target will be Presidential Assistant Harold Stassen, who, as director of the Foreign Operations Administration, approved a general relaxation of controls.

P: In an attempt to get off the hook on the pending Powell amendment (which would bar segregated school districts from funds under the $1.6 billion school construction bill), eight Democratic Representatives wrote President Eisenhower requesting his promise that the Administration would not allocate funds to districts that refuse to desegregate. White House Administrative Assistant Bryce Harlow last week replied that the President has no plans for issuing any such statement of intentions.

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