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Republican regulars looked at Harold Stassen with new interest. Partly it was because the overworked gossip about other presidential possibilities had turned stale for the time being. Partly it was because GOPsters were curious about the impact of his European jaunt. But mostly it was because of Stassen himself...
They also heard from a Baptist layman who had been to Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and hoped that Americans "will never surren er to the insidious whisper of the inevitability of war." He also had something to say about the convention's business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions...
...Stassen: No. Some will have objections...
When Harold Stassen popped the censorship question to Joseph Stalin (see INTERNATIONAL), he was just trying to be helpful. But last week it appeared that Stassen had unintentionally struck a blow at freedom, not for it. As they passed out of the Russian orbit, U.S. and British newsmen returning from the Moscow Conference began cabling "now it can be told" dispatches. One thing several wanted to tell about was what happened after the Stalin-Stassen chat...
...holiday on conference news had gone fairly smoothly. But when the censors read about the interview in cables (it was not reported in the Soviet press), they began bearing down. Many dispatches were delayed; some were rejected outright. "The one fact they [the censors] saw in stories of the Stassen interview," cabled Carlyle Holt of the Boston Globe, "was that Stalin approved censorship...