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...independent status. President Eisenhower accepted the Prime Minister's invitation to visit Japan on his way home from Moscow. Kishi also got a favorable reception in Canada. Only in Japan did bitterness appear. The big Tokyo daily newspaper Asahi responded angrily to Florida's Senator Spessard Holland's suggestion that Kishi get the Nobel Peace Prize. "JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE FLABBERGASTED!" snorted Asahi. "Kishi has not contributed to peace; he is a destroyer of peace." The Tokyo Yomiuri cried that "the people fear the treaty may bring them into a war." Sankei reported that "the feeling in Kishi...
...this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club: the Johnsonian gonfalon, it was plain to see, was moving deep into the liberal ranks...
Week's only sour note for Chris Herter was struck on the Senate floor when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland noted for the record that many were "fearful" about Herter's "resolution and firmness," urged Herter to meet the "challenge." Before the week was out Herter...
Florida: Democrat Spessard Holland, 66, ambled to his third term...
...Pepper," wrote Baggs, "has watered his philosophy . . . and we would not know what we were recommending to our readers if we recommended him." But Spessard Holland, who snipes at Pepper as an unregenerate pro-Red, "has been guilty of pine and palmetto McCarthy-ism." The News's summation: a gingerly approval of Holland-only because his seniority might help Florida's agriculture and timber industries...