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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '88, associate professor of History, replied for the Democratic Party, which, he said, was the "middle force" resisting the "antediluvian reactionaries of the right and the Gideon's Army of soft-headed sentimentalists on the left...
...Gideon's Army was on the march. Henry Wallace's third party, as yet nameless and pennonless (but not penniless), bivouacked briefly last week on Capitol Hill. Wallace had come, at his own request, to deliver an attack on the European Recovery Program before the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
Then Candidate Wallace sounded his own call to arms: "We have assembled a Gideon's army,† small in number, powerful in conviction, ready for action. . . . We face the future unfettered by any principle but the general welfare. ... By God's grace, the people's peace will usher in the century of the common...
...other news of Wallace plans, see PRESS. † Gideon with an army of 300 freed Israel from the Midianites...
...Berlin, Conn., last week the Board of Education moved to sidestep the touchy issue of religion in public schools, turned down a Gideon offer of 650 New Testaments. The Gideons were unperturbed. Said one: "Our goal is to get [New Testaments] to the . . . school children in America from the fifth grade through high school. . . . We are carried by faith. . . . We've just started...