From the desk of Harry S. Truman last week emerged an 1,800-word state paper exclusively devoted to garlic. U.S. garlic growers, a small but vociferously selfish band, had persuaded the Tariff Commission to restrict garlic imports so severely that Italy, one of the chief foreign suppliers, stood to lose more than half her U.S. sales, which in 1951 totaled about $420,000* Pointing out that Italy had done a good job of combating Communism, the President bravely overruled his commission. The decision to abolish the garlic quota, declared one State Department official, would breathe new life into the campaign for...
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