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...have to do is start an all-out effort in Korea, and the Reds will soon come begging...
Arbenz helped them take over the organized peasant movement, and they have repaid him with all-out support for his pet land-reform projects. When the Reds worked out a procedure for claiming United Fruit Co. property under the new agrarian law, he was delighted; in March the President formally upheld confiscation of 233,973 acres of the company's best reserve and fallow banana-growing lands. Now Red-led peasants are demanding 224,000 acres of the other big Unifruit plantation, and the company may eventually have to fold its $50 million Guatemalan operation...
...vote on Bohlen showed that McCarthy has no substantial following in the Senate. He can obstruct, he can attract attention, he can embarrass. (So can Wayne Morse.) But the pundits who say that the Administration must either appease McCarthy or destroy him in all-out political war were proved wrong by last week's events. McCarthy is still using ammunition left around by the Truman Administration, and he has profited a little from tactical mistakes of the Eisenhower team. Certainly the first, and probably the second, are vote-getting assets for McCarthy...
Some observers saw the Bohlen case as the beginning of an all-out fight between McCarthy and Eisenhower. This view was premature, at least. McCarthy was needling, not charging in, and Eisenhower, though supporting Bohlen, had launched no counterattack on McCarthy...
...call another meeting of the board within a day or so, to discuss election procedure," he said. "But we definitely know the A.F. of L. is making an all-out drive. They are our number one problem right...