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...principles that Harold Stassen hammered hardest. "There may be diplomats who do not know it; there may be many political leaders who are afraid to admit it; there may be many people who do not understand it, but the extreme principle of absolute nationalistic sovereignty is of the Middle Ages and it is dead. It died with the airplane, the radio, the rocket and the robomb...
Peace by Force. As flag secretary to Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander Stassen had seen what the power of modern ships and planes and weapons can accomplish. Now he called for the U.S. "to remain strong on land, at sea and in the air," so that the nation may join with Russia, Great Britain, China, France and the other United Nations in furnishing a worldwide police power...
...said he, must come the new principle of the rights, duties and responsibilities of each nation to the other. In tribute to the late Wendell Willkie, Harold Stassen solemnly wrote down his summary "This is one world...
Commander Harold E. Stassen, 37, one of the G.O.P.'s most promising contenders for the 1948 Presidential nomination, just back from almost two years in the Pacific as flag secretary to Admiral Halsey, told reporters that his selection by President Roosevelt as a delegate to the forthcoming United Nations Conference at San Francisco was "a political liability within [his] own party"-but, of course, he would serve "without the least hesitation," and he hoped that San Francisco might "mean to the world of tomorrow what Independence Hall . . . has meant...
...Republicans? As the top-ranking Republican members, Franklin Roosevelt did not pick, as he might have, the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee (Hiram Johnson), nor the titular leader of the party (Governor Dewey). He chose Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Commander Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, flag secretary to famed Admiral "Bull" Halsey...