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...former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Taxation said that a recent survey of the 1960 elections by the Republican National Committee showed "crucial" GOP weaknesses throughout the country...
...lost the areas around the cities, areas we should have had," Scribner reported. In addition, he observed that the GOP did poorly in urban areas and Negro districts. "We lost among Germans, Italians, the Irish, and...Jewish groups. When you get through," he sighed, "there isn't much left...
...addition to the loss of the White House, Scribner said the GOP will have a "rough road to travel" because of a big campaign debt, the control of only 16 governorships, and "a generally unfriendly" press...
...Arizona Republican said the country is "not as bad as President Kennedy painted it, but not as good as President Eisenhower saw it," and went on to endorse some of the new President's stands. He added that the GOP would perhaps be better as the opposition party than as the party in power...
Presumably the authors of Advance (who include in this number Senator Case writing on "Course for the GOP") do care: "We are not the party of today," they say, "Let us be the party of tomorrow." But to cite their review of Henry C. Wallich's The Cost of Freedom, "nowhere" do they, "provide a definite measure of response to modern problems. Although [they] stress the importance of change and creativity, [they] fail to specify or elaborate." Why do they feel so sharply the necessity for their movement? Because liberalism is inadequate, doctrinaire, stultifying, and "monolithic." They worry that "solutions...