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Another career diplomat, Foy David Kohler, was sharply disciplined by the State Department last week. A competent veteran of 21 years' service, once director of Voice of America and recently assigned to the department's important Policy Planning Staff, Kohler was arrested for drunkenness by Arlington. Va. police early last month. He and his wife Phyllis, motoring home from a party, ran into an Arlington telephone pole; Mrs. Kohler, who was at the wheel, was charged with drunken driving. In the car was Kohler's briefcase, containing secret documents which he was carrying home to study...
...Kohler's punishment: an official reprimand for violating security rules, suspension without pay for 30 days (a loss of $1,133), demotion from the Policy Planning Staff to unspecified "other duties...
Wisconsin: Walter J. Kohler...
Oklahoma was going for Ike by 52%, Kansas by 68%, Wisconsin by 60% (with Senator Joe McCarthy well ahead of Democratic Candidate Thomas Fairchild but trailing both Ike and Governor Walter Kohler Jr.). In Minnesota, Ike was 5,600 votes ahead in St. Paul, which gave Tru man a majority of 40,000 in 1948. Even Adlai Stevenson's Illinois had fallen. Ike jumped into a narrow lead, cutting sharp ly into Stevenson's expected majority in Chicago and rolling up so decisive a ma jority downstate that Democratic Boss Jake Arvey conceded before midnight...
Magnanimous. The news from Wisconsin was even more impressive evidence of McCarthy's political power. Governor Walter Kohler announced that he will seek reelection, thus made it clear that he will not oppose Joe for the senatorial nomination in the Republican primary. Kohler had offers of support from the Wisconsin Federation of Labor and many newspapers, if he would try to rid the Senate of McCarthy. But he was afraid, he couldn't beat the man whose methods he has long deplored in private conversation. Following the more-ancient-than-honorable rule "if you can't lick...