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Thursday, Dec. 12, 1963
LBJ To Meet Chamber of Commerce Leader
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Johnson, with an eye toward lining up business support for his economic policies, meets today with Edwin P. Neilan, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Neilan appointment at 9:30 am. was one of several for the chief executive which covered a wide range of topics from civil rights to foreign affairs and next year's round of tariff negotiations in Geneva.
NEILAND ALREADY supports the administration's $11 billion tax cut program. Johnson has urged
Staff Members To Follow Pope To Holy Land
VATICAN CITY — (UPI) — Top Vatican diplomats and experts on relations with eastern churches will accompany Pope Paul VI on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land and v possible "summit" meeting with orthodox leaders, it was disclosed today.
The Vatican today released a list of persons who will travel to Palestine with the Pope Jan. 4-6. Their names seemed to contradict at least partially the Vatican's contention that the trip is strictly a personal pilgrimage, and indicated that weighty contracts between churches may be expected.
TRAVELING WITH the Pope will be his secretary of state Amelo Cardinal Cicognani and the three assistant secretaries of state, Msgs. Antonio Samore, Angelo Dellacqua and Ernesto Camagni.
Others will be Eugene Cardinal Tisserant and Gustavo Cardinal Testa. The French-born Cardinal Tisserant is the dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals and second in ceremonial rank only to the Pope. He is also an authority on the orient. So is Testa, secretary of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches and a former apostolic delegate to Palestine.
Only yesterday, high Vatican sources had said Cigonani presumably would not accompany the Pope for fear Tattis would give a too "official" character to the trip.
There have been repeated suggestions for a meeting in the Holy Land between the Pope, Greek orthodox patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople and possibly other leaders. A Vatican envoy called on Athenagoras in Istanbul two days ago to inform him of the Pope's thinking about a possible meeting.
ALSO IN THE Pope's party will be papal major Domo Msr. Federico Callori di Vignale, master of the papal chamber Msr. Mario Nassalli Rocca, papal almoner Msr. Diego Venini, Belgian-born papal sacristan Msr. Peter Caniusis van Lierdu and prefect of ceremonies Msr. Enrico Dante.
A HIGH VATICAN source said that despite the large number of personalities accompanying the Pope, pump and outward solemnity would be avoided as far as possible. He said the Pope was expected to officiate masses at the holy places in simple form.
Vatican sources said that before his trip the Pope was expected to announce plans for his first consistency to name as many as 10 new cardinals.
The sources said an American may be among the cardinals named. Mentioned as possible choices were Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle of Washington, D.C., and Archbishop Martin J. O'Connor of Scranton, Pa. director of the North American College in Rome.
The pontiff probably will announce the consistory and name the new cardinals on Dec. 21, the sources said. A consistory is a meeting of the College of Cardinals.
ACCORDING TO tradition, the consistency probably would meet a month after the Pope calls for it. There appeared no likelihood the College of Cardinals would convene before the Pope's trip to Jordan and Israel Jan. 4-6.
Ten new members would give the College of Cardinals its largest membership in history.
Congress to speed action on the tax reduction measure, presently under consideration by the Senate finance committee, but passage is not expected until next year.
In a speech yesterday Neilan said a tax cut would forestall a possible "shallow economic recession." He also suggested that Johnson cut 25,000 government employees from such departments as agriculture, interior, and health, education and welfare. He said he would rather see these employees dropped than major cuts in the defense budget.
Johnson also was scheduled to meet with a ministerial delegation from the African nation of Guinea and (at 3 p.m. EST) will attend the signing of "Plans of Progress" pledging non-discrimination in hiring of 64 U.S. companies.
THE "PLANS OF PROGRESS" are voluntary pledges that the companies involved will not discriminate by race, creed or color in hiring, firing, or job placement.
While he was vice president, Johnson served as chairman of the president's committee on equal opportunity and signed up 114 companies representing approximately 6 million workers. His special interest in the project is likely to continue as chief executive.
Most observers believe it was his work with this committee, in addition to his enthusiastic backing of President Kennedy's civil rights program, which earned him a measure of trust from Negro leaders who would be expected to view with alarm a "southern" president.
The chief executive also urged the Defense Department officials to be on the lookout for any chance to further U.S. efforts against Communist subversion in Viet Nam and the Caribbean.
JOHNSON CARRIED forward his drive to cut spending yesterday. He cautioned a group of 800 military and civilian officials at a Pentagon meeting to get full value for each dollar spent. He noted that the military budget now was 15 times greater than the entire federal budget was when he first came to Washington 32 years ago.
"In these two areas we must be constantly alert to every opportunity to sustain and strengthen the forces of freedom." he said.
JOHNSON ALSO said he looked to the officials "not only to protect your country but to protect your country's purse, to safeguard not only her military strength, but her financial stability."
Expansion Resolutions Russian-Opposed in UN
Johnson had high praise for Deby 53 countries, to increase the general, or steering committee of the General Assembly from 21 to 24 members by adding three more vicepresidents. Currently there are 13.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—(UPI) —African and Asian Nations seeking proposed new seats on two top U.N. Councils were reported angry today over Russia's opposition to expanding the bodies, unless Communist China becomes a U.N. Member.
Two expansion resolutions, sponsored by all Latin American Nations except Cuba, were before the special political committee of the General Assembly. One would enlarge the 11-nation Security Council to 18 members and the other would enlarge the 18-nation Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to 24 members.
Russia would be expected to veto two resolutions in the Security Council, where they would have to be considered as amendments to the U.N. Charter.
THE SOVIET ultimatum that the Chinese Communists must be seated before it will agree to the expansion, came as a surprise at a time when the Peking regime is hurling insults at the Soviet Union and its premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Soviet ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko also has voiced opposition to a third resolution, sponsored
SINCE THE general committee's size is set forth in the rules of procedure, it can be changed by a vote in the assembly, where the Soviet bloc is outnumbered by the Western Nations and the Asian-African bloc.
Federorenko said in a statement that Russia had sought Red China's views on the subject and was told only a week ago:
"We do not approve of any attempt to settle this question by increasing the membership of U.N. organs; we are in favor of settling it by equitably distributing the existing seats in those organs."
"THE GOVERNMENT of the People's Republic of China stated that, since it is deprived of its lawful rights in the United Nations, agreement on its part to revision of the charter while the Chiang Kai-Shek representative is present in the United Nations might lead to the creation of a Two-China situation," Fedorenko said.
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fense Department officials, citing among others Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He said the country never had a more able defense secretary than McNamara "and I have known them all."
At a mid-aftermoon cabinet session yesterday, the President ordered a freeze on federal jobs. He told officials preparing the new budget that "we can hold the line on employment without causing real damage." He said nine of ten federal employees do a full day's work for a day's pay, "but I want that tenth man to measure up also."
THE CABINET meeting was told by Chairman Walter W. Heller of the council of economic advisers that business confidence was good and the economy was moving steadily
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ahead. Heller was said to have predicted that the economic growth rate of 4 per cent this year would increase to 5 per cent in 1964 if Congress cut taxes promptly.
White House sources said Heller also predicted the nation's output of goods and services would pass the $600 billion milestone by the end of next month.
Heller said the November unemployment rate of 5.9 per cent showed that a tax cut was necessary to take up slack in the economy.
But he credited Johnson's effective continuity of government for preventing any loss of business confidence following the assassination of President Kennedy.
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