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...Dewey made clear last week that he considers foreign policy a debatable campaign issue. For the first time he gave a detailed statement of his own ideas. They proved to be more Wilsonian than Rooseveltian. And he used the occasion to turn a klieg light on the man who might be Secretary of State if Dewey became President: Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles...
...this came in five days of political maneuvers, which began quietly and became so explosive that Dewey hugged close to Albany through the weekend, foregoing his usual trip to his Pawling farm. It started when Dewey read news dispatches of the plan Russia was bringing to this week's Dumbarton Oaks conference of the Big Four in Washington. Russia proposed an international air corps tightly controlled by the Big Four (see below). For a day and a half Tom Dewey consulted with his advisers. Then he called newsmen to the five-story hilltop Capitol in Albany and soberly...
...continued Tom Dewey, "in organizing permanent peace among the rest of the world, after the difficult postwar period, a very different attitude must be taken. In some of these proposals there appears to be a cynical intention that the four great Allied powers shall continue for all time to dominate the world by force and through . . . spheres of influence. I hope and pray that no such reactionary purpose will be allowed to dominate the conferences. As Americans we believe with all our hearts in the equality and rights of small nations and minorities. In the kind of permanent world organization...
Late one afternoon last week Republican bigwigs began arriving on the veranda of the Governor's antiquated Albany mansion to discuss an important question with Tom Dewey: Who should be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat of famed New Dealer Robert Wagner? But Tom Dewey had an answer ready. By the Governor's usual bedtime the conferences were over and the opposition candidates resigned to the inevitable. Next day, before lunch, the Governor's candidate was nominated...
...boyhood hero. He put himself through Fordham's law school after army service in World War I and then worked his way steadily upward in New York Republican politics to the job of secretary of state and the inner circle of young men around the fast rising Tom Dewey...