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This point of view has picked up some powerful spokesmen, including men like Senator Knowland and many of his Mid-Western Senate colleagues. It is not surprising, therefore, that the guiding heads of the "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice," Lieut. Gen. Stratemeyer, and Rear Admiral Crommelin, both favored the widening of the Korean War against China. They and other McCarthy supporters have found themselves opposed by the Administration and by the majority of the American people...
Already scheduled for intercollegiate competition, a number of schools are now refusing to debate the national topic that suggests recognition of Communist China. The colleges excuse themselves by claiming that arguments for China are no more than Soviet Party propaganda. And Educators in three mid-western schools have agreed that discussion of the topic might pollute the students' American minds...
...Bricker Amendment, they could do nothing to support the Administration's original sensible policy (sloganized as "trade not aid") of extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements three more years and cutting swollen tariff schedules. For by the time the foreign trade legislation reached Congress, the Administration had weakly surrendered to Mid-Western protectionist pressure; the Agreements were given a short one year renewal, and the Executive agreed to cut no tariffs...
Mass elections for Homecoming queen and the "best all-around guy" are usually associated with high school and Mid-Western colleges. But when a contest for Permanent Class Committee. Last year's balloting produced two major criticisms of the election procedure. While the prestige of the Permanent Class Committee encourages many nominations, few candidates are willing to accept scant honor and drudgery of the Class Day Committee. Moreover, only a minority of the Houses are usually represented on these Committees...
MADISON, Wis., May 22--Seventy-five Harvard graduates--packed into a sight-seeing boat--yelled the varsity crew to a third of a length victory over the University of Wisconsin today in the Crimson's first mid-western appearance in 103 years of rowing...