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...time the votes were counted in California's Republican primary last week, two political road signs were clear: Governor Earl Warren's fortunes are going down, Senator William Knowland's are going up. But no one could be entirely sure where California's 70 important delegates to the Republican National Convention will...
...pressure group implication in the Senate vote on the tidelands oil issue, I should like to call to your attention the actual Senate debate and the issues raised therein. I happened to be present in the gallery on the afternoon the issue was raised and heard Senators Ives, Knowland, Nixon, Lehman, and Taft all speak on behalf of the states. In particular, Senator Ives read a letter from Mayor Impelliteri to President Truman in which the New York solon pointed out how other waterfront state activities such as the Port of New York would be jeopardized as to jurisdiction should...
Lattimore called McCarthy the "Wisconsin whimperer ... a graduate witch-burner." He raked Budenz as perjured and immoral, Stassen as "irresponsible," the Nationalist Chinese as "driftwood on the beaches of Formosa." He even flailed away at people who had not appeared before the committee; for California's Senator William Knowland, who believes the Nationalists should get more U.S. support, Lattimore picked up a Communist-favored sneer, "The Senator from Formosa...
Even such old friends of the Chinese Nationalists as Congressman Walter Judd and Senator William Knowland were shaken last August by a new outcry of corruption against the Chiang Kai-shek government. The attack came from two officers serving with the Chinese Air Force Mission in Washington-Lieut. General P. T. Mow and his chief aide, Colonel V. S. Hsiang. Their superiors in Formosa had asked them to account for $19 million entrusted to them for military procurement. Publicly refusing to do so, they declared that they were being persecuted by Nationalist thugs and thieves. Somehow, their version...
...nomination. That arrangement would allow him to study the Eisenhower question thoroughly, and still leave time to lead a liberal Republican movement against Ohio's Bob Taft. Last week Governor Warren was getting ready to tear up the schedule. Seventeen other key Republicans in the state, including Senators Knowland and Nixon, urged him to announce that he will run. Their private reasoning: something has to be done quickly to stop the Taft bandwagon in California...