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...victory of the UN forces in Elisabethville is a victory for order, no matter what the critics of the UN effort may say. These critics--Senators Dodd and Dirksen, Her Majesty's Government, and the Union Miniere interests in Paris, London and Brussels--had seen Tshombe as the "man of order," and the UN venture as disruptive. The cease-fire declaration has cut their position out from under them...
...suggestion that he try for the Senate had come from Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley. In bad need of a big-name Democrat to contest Incumbent Republican Everett Dirksen, Daley had talked with the White House, said that he wanted to make the offer to Adlai. Getting no particular presidential objection, he telephoned Stevenson, put the question directly...
Many of Stevenson's closest associates, including his eldest son, Adlai Jr., advised him against running against Dirksen next year. But Adlai remained fascinated by the notion. Last fortnight he journeyed to Washington, discussed the matter with Kennedy. The President's reaction was such that Stevenson emerged from the White House to announce publicly that he was "considering" the Senate contest. In Chicago, Dick Daley understandably viewed this as a formal acceptance. He publicly predicted that Stevenson would trounce Dirksen by at least 500,000 votes...
...apparently almost overnight, Jack Kennedy had some second thoughts. Next day at Glen Ora, the rented Kennedy estate in Middleburg, Va., the President conferred with Stevenson again-and this time Kennedy strongly urged Adlai to stay at the U.N. He said Adlai would have a tough fight against Dirksen, particularly in the downstate counties; even if he won, and could wangle a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his influence as a junior Senator would still be negligible...
Stevenson's news-which came a day after he had raised his domestic political stock with a strong speech in the United Nations opposing the admission of Communist China (see THE WORLD)-gave many Democrats hope for unseating Dirksen. In Illinois, where his grandfather once served two terms as a U.S. Representative before becoming Grover Cleveland's Vice President, Adlai Stevenson served as Governor, after a 572,000-vote plurality over his Republican opponent. But wrhen he became the Democratic presidential standardbearer, he lost the state by heavy margins in his two unsuccessful bids against Dwight Eisenhower...