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...news" last week were two items as closely related as the horns of a dilemma. One was that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is going to establish a testing ground for atomic weapons somewhere in the Pacific. The other was a sentence spoken by a Republican presidential candidate, Harold Stassen: "The greatest basic competition of all history [Russia v. the U.S.] cannot really be decided...
Everyone who heard these two items knew that they added up to a dilemma. Some day, as Stassen said, the dilemma would have to be resolved "in the minds and hearts of men, with the grace of God." But at that point it began to sound like wishful thinking, and what could wishful thinking do against Communist fanaticism...
...Stassen's words, which everyone accepted, and the AEC's plan to develop bigger & better weapons, which everybody accepted too, was the kind of dilemma that ringed the U.S. these days, from every direction. The dilemma could only be solved by a paradox, by a miracle, by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb...
...running mate for Tom Dewey is a problem to which Dewey strategists have to give some thought. Dewey recently talked to Harold Stassen. Last week Stassen arrived in San Francisco on his own presidential campaign. Would he consider the vice-presidential nomination? Said Stassen: "I would not consider running with Dewey...
...sons controlled another big chunk. His opponents, assessing Dewey's trip, decided that he had blundered. Reports were coming back from politicians who were more riled than anything else by Dewey's attempted blitz. Some experts figured that Dewey had played right into the hands of Harold Stassen, who has long been trying to get Dewey out into the open. Said one G.O.P. Senator: "Poor Tom, he's such a nice fellow...