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Later Stone emphasized what he called the "basically moderate nature of the Castro government." Sen. Eastland has called Raul, a '100 per cent Communist'--but I don't know how they got that figure, unless they have some sort of political thermometer which they put under his armpit...
...hour-long TV interview, Mississippi's unreconstructed Senator James 0. (for Oliver) Eastland urged Mississippians to vote for the Democratic ticket as well as for his own candidacy for reelection on the ground that solid Southern representation in the Congress would keep integration at bay. Boasted Democrat Eastland: as a result of his strong leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was able to stall or kill 23 civil rights bills in 1957 and 49 in 1960. "I don't always agree with Lyndon Johnson, but you have to give him credit. He took everything relating to integration...
Even those who disagree with Pauling's views will concede the urgency of some settlement to the arms race. And everyone must agree that it does harm to muddy this most crucial of debates by confusing its terms. For confusion will result if the public listens to Eastland and Dodd equating communists with those who favor disarmament...
...those worried about war would take issue with the legal right of the Eastland-Dodd sub-committee to investigate the doings of those in the movement for peace. A legal right, hoever, does not constitute a mandate to blacken the eye of this movement; Senate investigating committees, after all, do not operate in vacuums...
...scares in the past did not start by themselves. And a peace scare started by Eastland and Dodd at this stage in the disarmament debate might well be an overture to tragedy. Our world, unlike Woodrow Wilson's, depends for its existence on the dangerous assumption that men will act in good faith...