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Emerging from the White House last week after a foreign policy talk with President Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson had a tidbit for waiting reporters: he is considering running next year for the Illinois Senate seat now held by Republican Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen...
...Adlai said that he had been asked by Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley if he was "interested in running," and that he had discussed the possibility with President Kennedy. Stevenson plans to announce his final decision, to be "guided by the best interests of my party and the Administration," by the end of this year...
...domestic political stock with a strong speech in the United Nations opposing the admission of Communist China (see THE WORLD)-gave many Democrats hope for unseating Dirksen. In Illinois, where his grandfather once served two terms as a U.S. Representative before becoming Grover Cleveland's Vice President, Adlai Stevenson served as Governor, after a 572,000-vote plurality over his Republican opponent. But wrhen he became the Democratic presidential standardbearer, he lost the state by heavy margins in his two unsuccessful bids against Dwight Eisenhower...
Then it was the turn of U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Speaking solemnly, without a trace of his familiar humor, he delivered one of his best speeches since he came to the U.N. The substance of his argument was no different from the established U.S. position, but the temperate earnestness of his style impressed most listeners. He appealed to the neutral nations who mistakenly "believe that the U.N. can somehow accommodate this unbridled power" and warned that they were making a tragic mistake if they yielded to "the claims of an aggressive and unregenerate" Red China, that still acts...
...Delegate Adlai Stevenson won wide support for his proposal to strengthen both U Thant and the Congolese central government in the struggle against all rebels and secessionists still stirring trouble in the Congo. But the Soviet Union's Valerian Zorin was anxious to protect one of the worst troublemakers, Red-backed Antoine Gizenga of Eastern province; tossing two rapid-fire vetoes, Russia's Zorin declined to approve any measure not directed exclusively against anti-Communist Moise Tshombe of Katanga. To prevent total deadlock and inaction, Stevenson reluctantly gave U.S. approval to the narrower, Soviet-favored proposal...