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Inevitably, the Warren-Werdel contest was compared with the startling performance of Warren's political protege, 43-year-old Senator William Knowland. In the Republican senatorial primary, Knowland rolled up a total of 1,499,290 votes to 185,827 for two opponents. Under California's weird cross-filing system, Knowland also won the Democratic primary, is thus fully assured of re-election in November. Knowland's total vote, 2,450,435, was more than any other political candidate ever got in California primaries...
With these results to consider, politicians began to revise their thinking about California. Earl Warren has dim prospects as a compromise candidate in a situation that seems more & more to be a straight Ike-Taft contest. California's more promising figure now is Knowland, who has the bark & grain of vice-presidential timber...
Assistant publisher of his father's Oakland daily Tribune and an ex-state senator, Knowland was appointed to the Senate by Warren in August 1945, while he was still serving as an Army major in Paris. Named to the seat vacated by Hiram Johnson's death, he was elected to a full term in 1946. He has long advocated a strong U.S. policy in the Far East, including more aid to Chiang and more force against the Communists. This, and his charge that the State Department's Far Eastern policy was "bankrupt," caused his enemies in Washington...
...Leaners. While the primary thus changed the focus on Warren and Knowland, it only fuzzed the picture on the route California's 70 delegates will follow after Warren releases them. Warren," partly in answer to Werdel's deal charge, has insisted that he will not attempt to swing the delegates one way or another if he no longer has a chance to be nominated. But Warren is known to favor...
...Knowland could run for both Vice President and Senator at the same time, despite a California law which prohibits a man from seeking two offices in one election. Reason: votes for Vice President are, technically, cast for electors and not for the candidate. There is precedent for the dual candidacy: Democrat John Nance Garner ran both for Congress and the vice-presidency in November...