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...last week two U.S. Senators strode into a State Department office, seated themselves at a table and began poring over a 30-page document. Ohio's Robert A. Taft and Alabama's John Sparkman had come over from Capitol Hill to go through the FBI report on Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, nominee for Ambassador to Russia. Both Taft and Sparkman were already satisfied with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' judgment that Bohlen was a good security risk, but the hue & cry raised by Bohlen's opponents about reports of his past association with "dissolute persons...
Last November's elections showed the folly of letting the "liberal" tail wag the Democratic dog, he continued. By trying to mold the Democratic Party to their own image, "extremists who call themselves liberals" had alienated Southern voters and lost the election for two "great Americans"-Stevenson and Sparkman. If the liberals continued their efforts "to drive the South out of the party," he warned, the Democrats would suffer "the most disastrous defeat in American political history" in next year's congressional elections...
...philosophy right into their own back pastures. Said Minnesota's Representative Eugene J. McCarthy, "[Benson] is like a man standing on the bank of the river telling a drowning man that all he needs to do is take a deep breath of air." Alabama's Senator John Sparkman said that Benson had "in effect repudiated the price-support program." (One notable exception: New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, Harry Truman's ex-Secretary of Agriculture, who agreed "with most of" what Benson said...
...liberals Smith of New Jersey and Ferguson of Michigan, and in a category all his own, Tobey of New Hampshire, an enigmatic character in the political spectrum. Chairman Wiley is decidedly as internationalist. On the other side of the table are Democrats Green of Rhode Island. Fulbright of Arkansas, Sparkman of Alabama, Gillette of Iowa, Humphrey of Minnesota, Mansfield of Montana, and George of Georgia. Senator Humphrey was absent during the hearings...
...Like the published cover, but with pictures of Stevenson and Sparkman.—ED...