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For the dedication of a memorial to Francis Scott Key, author of The Star-Spangled Banner, President Eisenhower last week drove to tiny (200 students) St. John's College at Annapolis. There, to the students in the line of Key (class of 1796), the President spoke on a subject of absorbing interest to him. There is, he said, no longer any validity in such terms as "foreign affairs" or "foreign policy," but rather, such matters are."essentially local affairs for every nation, including our own." Said Dwight Eisenhower: "The concerns of 'foreign' policy are not something remote and apart from the rest of our activities; they are deeply rooted in the very center of our local, personal pursuits, day by day." Example: stable world markets and indeed the safety of free civilization depend on maintaining a strong U.S. economy. The U.S. patriot in today's world, Ike said to the students, faces challenges as stirring as that felt by Francis Scott Key as he gazed from the British fleet, where he was held captive during a War of 1812 battle, and saw the bursting rockets' red glare over nearby Baltimore.

Last week the President also: if Signed a supplemental appropriations bill providing an additional $2.8 billion for fiscal 1959. A key item: $150 million for the foreign-aid program's Development Loan Fund.

EURf Proclaimed World Refugee Year in the U.S. starting July i, sponsored a White House conference at which Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, urged the West to do its utmost to help refugees from Communist aggression. "Every refugee who comes out,-". said Judd, "is a vote for our society and a vote against their society." P: Avoided the strong prospect of having an Eisenhower veto overridden for the first time during his Administration by signing a railroad retirement bill ($150 to $200 million more annual benefits) that he and most of his advisers (Budget

Bureau, Department of Commerce, Council of Economic Advisers) considered unsound. But insofar as the decision was based on keeping his veto record intact, it was an irrelevancy--like a baseball player, worried more about his average than anything else, bunting to keep up a hitting streak.

P: Announced that he was setting up a federal interagency committee to study problems of the import-harassed U.S. textile industry, expects a report before the beginning of Congress' 1960 session.

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