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...November 7, the day of the election, your editorial castigated the Republicans for passing the Taft-Hartley bill and initiating the "hysterical" McCarran Act. What sort of people do you think rad your editorials, non-thinking robets? Anybody who has any guts today will admit that the Taft-Hartley Act is a just attempt at equalizing the balance of power in the American scene, and will praise its purpose and methods. Your condemning of it is not only indicative of your complete adherence to the party line, and of your lack of originality, but it is also an insult...
...more conservative, or is turning against the Fair Deal, cannot be judged. After all, the Democrats suffered less of a loss this time than at any off-year election since 1934. But Congressmen, wary of crossing their constituents, may be unwilling to take a chance. Certainly, laws like the McCarran Act will remain in force, perhaps be strengthened in states as well as in the federal government...
Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Holen Gahagen Douglas in California by close to a 2 to 1 majority while Republican incumbent Eugene D. Milliken won over John A. Carrol in Colorado. Both campaigns returned pro-McCarran Act candidates. In Nevada, Patrick A. McCarran defeated Republican George E. Marshall in a close race.Senator ROBERT A. TAFT...
...plan, and other parts of the Fair Deal. That party evidently does not intend to change its stand on these questions. Nor does it intend to back down on its program of attacking anyone whom party members may consider "leftist." It will keep on trying to pass legislation like McCarran Bill...
Those who fear the results of McCarthy-like attacks, those who worry about such hysterical legislation as the McCarran bill have little choice, then, at this election. Those who dislike laws unfavorable to Labor, those who want a civil rights program can hardly choose freely today...