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...defense fund for Alger Hiss. "I believed him worthy of a full defense," he says, "and the Hiss family didn't have the means." The fact that Bill was married to the daughter of McCarthy's archfoe, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, did not exactly endear him to the Senator. Neither did the fact that McGeorge Bundy, though a Republican himself, had edited Dean Acheson's state papers, The Pattern of Responsibility, and written a foreward pointedly rebutting McCarthy's diatribes...
...million people who live south of the Rio Grande, the Yankee and his institutions are strange and often repugnant animals. The fact that the United States with seven per cent of the world's population produces 50 per cent of the world's goods does not necessarily endear Uncle Sam to his Latin neighbors. When a Latin turns on his television set he watches Gunsmoke or The Untouchables; when he steps on to the street he sees cars from Detroit; when he goes to the neighborhood store he is confronted with Fab and Spry. But it is wrong and dangerously...
...attempt to appeal to traditional Republican strongholds such as the Middle West and to make inroads in the normally Democratic south. But the two most consistent aspects of his appeal, his strong internationalism and his liberal stand on civil rights, undercut this argument. The former hardly seems calculated to endear him to Middle Western isolationists, and the latter is certainly not the best method of attracting Southern support...
...blame for Morgenthau's selection on New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. But the critics insist that Bobby telephoned Bronx Democratic Boss Charles Buckley, enlisted his support for Morgenthau and thereby turned the unhappy trick. And Morgenthau's defeat, of course, did nothing to endear Bobby to his critics...
...antagonize some pacifist French-Canadians, he has softened the possible effects by stating his position in terms of Canada's responsibility and commitments to NATO and NORAD. In addition, Pearson's genuine concern for the problem of Confederation, the co-existence of the English and French in equality, will endear him to the voters of French Quebec...