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McCarthy displayed his usual tendency to imply conclusions more sweeping than his facts warranted and he once, in referring to Stevenson, said, "Alger-pardon me-I mean Adlai," a McCarthy trick that he has used several times before...
...Boston, the Post, traditionally Democratic, backed Eisenhower. ¶The Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph-25% owned by Adlai Stevenson, and usually Republican-decided to sit this election out, because "we cannot possibly be objective...
Foreign Policy. The key to his idea on foreign policy is in these sentences: "The containing of Communism is largely physical, and by itself an inadequate approach to our task . . . Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power." When Adlai Stevenson remarked, "A wise man does not try to hurry history," Eisenhower replied: "Every American knows the answer to that one. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over...
...Asia he attacks the Democrats for their most disastrous foreign policy failure: "The Administration passes on to the people this cheerful, if astonishing, news: 'We have blocked the road to Communist domination of the Far East.' In honest stupefaction the people must ask: Can this man [Adlai Stevenson, who made the remark on Sept. 27 in Louisville] be serious? Can an Administration frankly confessing that it could not prevent the loss of China-the whole heart of Asia-have the audacity to boast nonetheless of having 'blocked' the Communists in Asia?" Eisenhower favors an effective Pacific...
...Sure" States. The list of "sure" Democratic states is considerably below the traditional number. Eight states with 75 electoral votes, all traditionally Democratic, can be considered sure for Adlai Stevenson. The states (and their electoral votes...