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Last week an anti-Communist charged that there were spies at the Rum Jungle uranium mines (see below) and even in Parliament itself. Australians were beginning to wonder whether the government's search for the traitors was getting anywhere. In Parliament last month, Laborite Allan Fraser asked: "Can the Minister for External Affairs inform me whether the nest of traitors is still in public service...
...DIARY OF GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG (4 vols.; 2,143 pp.)-Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas-Macmillan...
...governor of Texas, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), dark & handsome Allan Shivers has been widely regarded as an efficient administrator, but not as a fighter. "Allan has no affection for lost causes," says one of his friends. "He likes to win." Manager of one of Texas' richest private agricultural empires, the John H. Shary Enterprises, built up by his father-in-law, Shivers is a natural spokesman of anti-Truman Texas farmers and cattlemen, but he has squirmed uneasily at the possibility that he might have to lead his party in actual revolt against the national ticket. To stiffen...
Texas' handsome Governor Allan Shivers drove up to the executive mansion in Springfield, Ill. one morning last week, doffed his broad-brimmed straw hat, and hurried in to talk to Adlai Stevenson. He wanted a straight answer to a question that looms mighty big in Texas: What is Stevenson's stand on tidelands oil? Should the states or the Federal Government control the oil deposits in the tidelands, the submerged strips between low-water mark and the offshore boundaries...
Some important Southern leaders say that they might "go fishing" on election day. One such is Texas' Governor Allan Shivers who is deeply disturbed by the Democratic stand in favor of federal control of tidelands. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd has not announced his support of the ticket. The prospect: little help for Stevenson from Byrd...