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Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor asked: "What steps were taken by you to prevent Communists from having a voice in the Institute of Pacific Relations?" Lattimore answered: "I was not responsible for employment." Pressed further, the professor, long cited as an American authority on Soviet Asia, said he was really an innocent on ideologies: "I was not an expert on Communism . . ." Had any mistakes been made in U.S. China policy? Sidestepped Lattimore: "I make a distinction between mistakes and lack of success...
Democratic Soft Spots. With this handicap in mind, Republican strategists are looking hard for some Democratic soft spots. They see one in Maryland, where Democrat Herbert R. O'Conor tested the political winds and decided not to run for reelection. Leading Democratic contender for his seat is veteran Congressman Lansdale G. Sasscer. The Republicans' hottest prospect: popular fifth-term Congressman J. Glenn Beall. At this stage, the Republicans are ahead...
...Kefauver-for-President talk is based on the fact that he is strongest where the Democrats need strength most: he is the party's best-known foe of corruption. There have been numerous suggestions, including one from Maryland's Democratic Senator Herbert R. O'Conor, that Harry Truman name Kefauver to head the proposed Government housecleaning commission...
...Prompting two former chairmen of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, to put up a "friendly forfeit": a coonskin cap v. a barrel of oysters...
...editors demanded that the Washington correspondents' Standing Committee bar all Tassmen from the Capitol press galleries. In the Senate, Maryland's Herbert O'Conor went much further. He offered a resolution not only to bar Tass from the galleries, but to deport all non-American Tass representatives...