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...delegate to the Republican Washington state conventions of '46 and '48, I feel compelled to say this: the Republican Party, as represented by Taft, Wiley, Smith, Hickenlooper, Cain, McCarthy, Martin, "Bertie" McCormick and Hearst, is on mighty thin ice. The weight of sound logic lies with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.N. and Truman...
...Detroit (Cain) 6, Boston...
...Democrats' greatest assets, cried Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan in the prize tub-thumping speech of the meeting, were four particularly awful Republicans. He named Robert Taft, Congressman Joe Martin, Washington's Senator Harry Cain and Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy ("whose name will live . . . in monstrous infamy . . . Lynch . . . Boycott . . . Quisling and McCarthyism!"). Oklahoma's flamboyant Robert S. Kerr branded the G.O.P. a war party: "They are feeling sicker every day . . . Mac-Arthuritis...
Next day, Collins himself was a little sheepish about his remarks. Senator Harry Cain of Washington confronted him: "I think you unintentionally, and I emphasize that word, unintentionally, did a first-rate hatchet job on General MacArthur, and certainly you led the nation to believe that General MacArthur violated a field directive." By then, Joe Collins had already retreated to a safer position. It was not a "directive" that MacArthur had violated, but a "policy clearly enunciated ... I did not state it was a disobedience or an insubordination...
...modern man. Four prisoners of an unidentified war are locked up in a church and bunk down for a restless night. Most of the action consists of their separate dreams, each one involving the others, a series of merging playlets stretched on the frames of familiar Bible stories (Cain and Abel, David and Absalom, Abraham and Isaac...