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...contrast, Harriman had high praise for Stevenson and his "intelligent, forthright campaign." "I have the greatest confidence in Stevenson and the men around him. It is unfortunate that men like Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. have to undergo abusive smear attacks." he stated...
...interesting aspect of the current presidential campaign has been the impact on large segments of the Harvard population of the personality and speaking manner of candidate Stevenson. His air of intellectualism and humility have caused thousands to hail him as the most forthright candidate in decades. Everywhere claims are heard that Stevenson's campaign is one of candor and honest discussion of issues, where Eisenhower has fallen to demagoguery and shameful surrender to the reactionary line. I wish to present some serious objections to this theory...
...prepared statement he said, "To the Greeks, Moly was the fabulous plant with the white flower and the black root which Hormea dug up to protect Odysseus from the charms of Circe. To the Republicans it seems to have the same use. Unable or unwilling to meet Stevenson's forthright and courageous arguments, they hope to neutralize these appeals to reason by such arguments as Professor Moley's contention that Stevenson is surrounded by an intellectual elite, and that he is talking over the heads of the people. The first charge may well be nothing mare than academic jealousy: Professor...
...Staff, the civilian secretaries and the State Department, are pulled one way by the misgivings of allies, tugged another by election-year politics; they keep ever in mind (as they certainly should) the possibility of war in Europe or over Detroit-but are apt to dismiss as "localitis" any forthright attempt to settle the war in Korea. Any shavetail out of West Point could have put his finger on the Kaesong-Panmunjom fallacy by quoting Clausewitz: "If our opponent is to do our will, we must put him in a position more disadvantageous to him than the sacrifice...we demand...
...named editor, and seven years later co-managing director of both the News and its more famous sister, the Manchester Guardian. At a time when many of Britain's papers were backing the government's appeasement policy toward the Nazis, Haley, a staunch Liberal, wrote forthright editorials attacking the government...