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Fortnight ago, Minnesota's silo-sized Republican Governor Harold E. Stassen proposed a "world association of free peoples." It would require minimum standards of its members: religious freedom, fair internal justice, elective governments. Stassen suggested it could...
Here was a concrete post-war plan. Realistic Harold Stassen did not mean it to be in any way final. Paraphrasing another Midwesterner, he said: "We must now say that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall gradually spread throughout the earth...
Blond, burly young Governor Harold Edward Stassen tossed a time bomb into Minnesota politics last week. If re-elected in November, he said, he would serve through the legislative session, then resign in April 1943 to serve as a lieutenant commander in the Navy...
...even the most cynical politician suspected that Governor Stassen was trying to improve his chances for the 1942 gubernatorial election; he was a cold cinch for re-election anyway. But the statement spurred all three of Minnesota's parties (Republican, Democrat, Farmer-Labor) into sudden frenzy. If Stassen is re-elected and then goes off to war the following spring, the man elected Lieutenant Governor next November will be Minnesota's Governor within six months. And, though even cynics admitted that Governor Stassen's patriotism was perfectly virtuous, they also pointed out that that virtue might well...
Young Senator Ball expected a cool reception from the home folks. For this earnest, rumpled newspaperman whom Republican Governor Harold Stassen chose last year to take the place of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen is an ardent crusader for President Roosevelt's foreign policy. And for over 25 years Minnesota has been a sand pile of isolationism...