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When the questioning veered again, Ike got a chance to reply to the suggestion that the Big Four conference might result in a Yalta-like sellout. Nobody mentioned the name of California's Senator Knowland, but all knew that the President's intense words, punctuated with a fist-to-desk bang, were addressed to him. "There is no appeasement in my heart," said Ike. "I just can't believe that [Americans] . . . suspect their Government in general, is apt to fall into that trap...
...Senators Knowland, McCarthy, Millikin and Malone are not trying to grab the party leadership from him. Each goes his own way, seeks his own following. A mere hint of Ike's own reluctance to run will have little effect on such men, even though they know that Ike's unavailability might cost the party millions of votes. But an Eisenhower withdrawal that was attributed in part to the opposition inside his own party might have a drastic effect on party workers, who, after all, like to win elections. These party stalwarts could turn and blast forever the careers...
Urging the United States to take a firm stand in the Formosa Straits, Knowland compared the present situation to that of Western Berlin. "The reason that Western Berlin has not passed behind the Iron Curtain is that any attempt to take over the area by force would immediately involve the Western allies in military action, he said...
...Knowland, senior Senator from California and minority floor leader in the Senate, arrived at Harkness Commons about 2:00 in the afternoon, and was greeted by a very large crowd which could not all be seated in the assembly hall. Almost one quarter of the bipartisan spectators had either to stand outside on the Common' patio, or outside the exit...
Dressed in a dignified gray suit, the white-haired Knowland spoke without notes, but reiterated points made earlier in the day at a luncheon with Mayor John B. Hynes of Boston and later at night before a Robert A. Taft Memorial Dinner. His afternoon talk was sponsored by the Young Republican Club...