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...Hastily but carefully they organized a "write-in" campaign for Duff's old mentor and present campaign foe, U.S. Senator Ed Martin. They launched a heavily financed attack on the governor's state chairman, Harvey Taylor, who was running for renomination as state senator. A fortnight ago Congressman Clarence Brown, Taft's campaign manager, predicted confidently: "Duff will be handled...
Piecemeal Approach. "Western Union" was one of the commonest phrases for the unity which men were trying for in 1948. The phrase was Ernie Bevin's. He had floated it out on the air in January, without ever quite defining it. A fortnight ago at a private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification...
Party chauvinism among Britain's Socialists is another headache. They fear, and feel, that Europe is moving to the right, that Socialism is losing weight on the Continent. Many of them seem to want a Socialist United States of Europe or none at all. In Paris last fortnight, at a convention of European Socialists, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Daiton told why he and other Labor M.P.s who shared his views would boycott The Hague conference. Said Dalton: "As Socialists we must make sure that the success of the Socialist policy ... is not jeopardized by the premature creation...
...last on Sunday afternoon I found the opportunity to answer your letter, because I had so many to do in the past fortnight that I couldn't write before . . . Were my letters opened by Russian censorship? This would interest me very much, because you write you know nothing about the Eastern areas of Europe, and it would be dangerous for me if I would write the only truth and my letters are opened by the Russians. Why, later...
...Fortnight ago the I.T.U. and the dailies had come to a tentative agreement. The publishers agreed to boost wages to $99 a week for day work, highest I.T.U. wages in the U.S. To play safe, the papers kept their VariType crews working. Then Woodruff Randolph, I.T.U. president, demanded that the I.T.U. be granted jurisdiction over VariType operators. This would make it impossible for the papers to put out a VariType issue if the printers struck. The papers flatly refused. They had no intention of giving up the first method yet found to counter printers' strikes...