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Bait. In Hartford, Conn., when he heard that the police were holding a package with his name on it, Construction Worker Sam Peay hurried down to the police station, soon found his "package": a warrant for his arrest on a reckless-driving charge...
...issue with which he is particularly concerned as Attorney-General, Herbert Brownell's pitch to the people is clear: that the Democrats, though loyal, are too lax about Communists, the Midwesterners too reckless. He has never explicitly stated his theory of political success. But his actions make it quite clear; simply run a steamroller down the middle of the road...
This was a rather reckless position for McCarthy to take in view of his previous stand against the whole truth in the matter of the bogus letter. He had simply refused to name the officer who illegally gave him the letter, or any other informer. And in this refusal McCarthy had not brought forward any time-honored constitutional argument such as that out lined in the Brownell letter...
Laborite Bevan's reckless political course, leading to his resignation from his party's parliamentary committee (TIME, April 29), was also getting him in trouble. Sir Winston Churchill gloated that Nye's revolt had left him "a stranded whale." Last week the whale was expertly harpooned by Bevan's No. 1 rival in the Labor Party, Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison. Apparently with full approval of Clement Attlee, Morrison, in the Laborite monthly Socialist Commentary, accused
Bevan of losing the Laborites "30 to 50 seats" in the 1951 general elections by his reckless description of Tories as "lower than vermin...