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...strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief) and Hubert Humphrey (upcoming Minneapolis Mayor) held that the wording must go easy; they blistered committee opponents such as writer Robert Bendiner of The Nation. On the floor Harvard Liberal Union delegates touched off a successful campaign to attack specifically, through amendment...
...very formation stemmed from feeling on the part of liberal Democrats such as Chester Bowles that Henry Wallace's involvement with Communist Party supporters would hamstring honest resolution of public issues--as well as prove "bad politics." Now the defensibility of this premise has been weakened; for ADA's careerist Democrats seemingly cannot face up to foreign policy unhandcuffed by their own Truman-tied Party Line. The resultant bitter feuding between ADA and PCA on international questions has prevented coordinated planning on domestic policy--where the two see eye to eye for the most part. Neither of course holds...
...Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...
...hosts found her almost suspiciously normal, a slender, friendly woman of 40 who seemed as unaffected as her correspondence. Green-eyed Mollie was no brittle careerist but a woman who, besides working for the New Yorker, was her' own housekeeper, did her own canning...
...Possible. Byrnes's two chief helpers are Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, a handsome, alert careerist who acts as his Russian adviser-translator, and Benjamin V. ("Ben") Cohen, once mu:h the better half of F.D.R.'s (Thomas G.) Corcoran & Cohen team. Cohen, an idealist, is classified in what Washington calls the N.C.L.-non-Communist left. Byrnes likes to recall that he was an idealist once, himself. "In 1918 I was a follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League...