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...uphill campaign for California's governorship weren't enough of a load, U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland had to have a pamphlet too. At least his well-meaning wife, Helen, thought so. So she distributed some 500 copies of a 30-page diatribe against A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, Meet the Man Who Plans to Rule America. Then she asked about the rate for 10,000 more pamphlets, writing Author Joseph P. Kamp that his was "a powerful message which could actually swing the pendulum in California if it could be gotten into the hands of millions...
What Helen Knowland did not know was that Author Kamp, a Westport, Conn. crackpot, is a longtime espouser of fascist causes, is well-versed in the techniques of antiSemitism, tried to undercut President Eisenhower's 1952 campaign by picturing prominent Jews who supported...
Since populous Southern California has the nation's second largest concentration of Jews, Democrats were delighted. Knowland's front-running opponent, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, demanded that Knowland disown responsibility for use of the tract, drew only the surprisingly lame comment: "I don't think I'm called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald...
...Maine goes, so goes Adams," quipped political funsters last week. And Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn's telephone jangled with morning-after calls demanding that it better be soon. California's Bill Knowland, running hard, but behind, for Governor, said Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams should resign "immediately." New York Senate Candidate Kenneth Keating added "and for the good of the country." Moaned Arizona's Barry Goldwater, running for a second Senate term: "The harm has already been done...
...overcome his primary setback, Bill Knowland faces a statistically staggering job. To come within 100,000 votes of Brown in November, Knowland must 1) persuade seven of every ten registered Republicans to vote, 2) recapture the 23% of the Republican primary vote he lost to Brown, and 3) increase his 15% slice of the Democratic primary vote to some 25% in November...