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Macmillan recovered his composure. "They have deeply wounded me," he told a Tory rally, adding: "It will not break my spirit." But the House still remembered the words of Tory Rebel Nigel Birch, who during the big debate had quoted Browning's The Lost Leader at Harold Macmillan...
...Frank Whetstone of Cut Bank, Mont., "can sell-and he can win." In California, former Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a Rockefeller man, admits Goldwater gains over Rockefeller in his state, but insists that Barry "couldn't possibly win." Nonetheless, California has a huge assortment of conservatives -from mild to Birch. They are well organized and gave Richard Nixon a tough fight in the gubernatorial primaries last year. If the delegation goes to the convention uninstructed-as may well happen-California might split its votes down the middle, with half each for Rocky and Goldwater...
...Pooh-Pooh to You." In the current session Kuchel has emerged as the Senate's most outspoken Republican foe of the radical right. In a floor speech a few weeks ago, he denounced the John Birch Society and other "fright peddlers," as he called them, for spreading tales about United Nations plots to take control of the U.S. with the connivance of the U.S. Government. Right-wing extremists claim to be conservatives, said Kuchel, but they "defile the honorable philosophy of conservatism with that claim." They also claim to be patriots, but they are "unpatriotic and downright un-American...
Having once fumed and fulminated in 200 newspapers, Pegler, now 68, has failed to line up any papers at all since Hearst dropped him, and his only regular platform is Candyman Robert Welch's American Opinion magazine, monthly bark of the John Birch Society. But if Pegler has lost his outlets, he has lost none of his gift for invective and his rogues' gallery is as crowded as ever. Nelson Rockefeller, he told an interviewer last week, is an "arrogant, dangerous man." Bobby Kennedy is a "mean little jerk who never earned a thing in his life...
Just why the Young Republicans across the country should be more conservative than their elders is a constant source of wonderment to observers within the party. With the exception of California, where a Birch backed candidate recently emerged from a ruthlessly sophisticated campaign with full control of the state Young Republican organization, most extreme conservatives eschew direct Birch Society ties. But that does not affect the extremity of their convictions...