2. American prestige "stands higher than ever before" with Allied governments but he "can't say the same for public opinion ... which is somewhat misled."
3. The United States is ready to join European countries in giving emergency financial aid to France provided it "gets its house in order at home."
4. The Hungarian revolt demonstrated communism's "fatal defect"--an inability to blot out man's yearning for freedom even under dictatorship. This will lead to "the undoing" of communism "in a decade or more," perhaps sooner.
Johnson on Missiles
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16--Sen. Johnson of Texas, the Senate's Democratic leader, protested today that U.S. defense projects are at the mercy of "any little budget officer down the line."
These minor government officials, he told a meeting of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, can hold up millions of dollars in defense work even after it has been approved by Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The preparedness group, which Johnson heads, is investigating the defense program in the light of recent Soviet advances in the military scientific field