THE NATION: The Objectives for 1956

Shortly after noon one day last week, President Eisenhower submitted to the Congress his fourth annual message on the State of the Union. He first expressed grateful thanks to a kind Providence, "whose protection has been ever present and whose bounty has been manifold and abundant." He summed up the good state in which the U.S. finds itself in the winter of 1956 (see box). Then, in accordance with the constitutional sanction, he turned to the prospects for the future:

"Every political and economic guide supports a valid confidence that wise effort...

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