Word: emerson
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Best Plays (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Faye Emerson in Biography...
...Emerson added that "the blame which Ike has placed on the Truman administration for the collapse of Nationalist China and for the outbreak of the Korean war strikes me as rather misplaced. In my opinion; it is fantastic to place any major share of the responsibility for the disintegration of Chiang's regime and the take-over by the Communists on the shoulders of Truman and Acheson...
...outset of the campaign," Emerson said, "it seemed a reasonable hope that there would not be a very grave and fundamental difference on foreign policy between the two candidates. But since then, Ike has apparently drifted further and further from what appeared to be his earlier views...
...also has been making some rather "unwise and irresponsible statements," Emerson said. He cited the proposals looking toward liberation of satellite countries and Ike's recent suggestion concerning the withdrawal of United States forces from Korea...
...other hand," Emerson said, "Stevenson has shown himself to be a man of unusual restraint and clarity of analysis. Where Ike has been prepared to indulge in ill-considered generalities, Stevenson has cogently and patiently laid out the realities which the American people must face...