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...Harold Stassen, chancellor of the University of Pennsylvania, is expected sometime during the second week in March. Moore added that General Dwight D. Eisenhower will be invited to Harvard if he returns to the country before the school year closes...
...Convention. Across the street in the Fairmont Hotel, Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. set up Eisenhower headquarters on a smaller scale. California's Governor Earl Warren got little traffic either in his public suite at the Fairmont or his downtown hideout at the St. Francis. Candidate Harold Stassen arrived late, and few people bothered to seek him out. Taft himself stayed away, but reckoning by pamphlets, badges ("No Me-Too in 1952") and hotel rooms, he was unbeatable-until the speeches began...
Fairbank tried to go to Japan last fall for a year's work in that country, but the Army denied his access "for security reasons." Fairbank is a member of the Institute of Pacific Relations, called a Communist-infiltrated group by Harold E. Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, at a Senate hearing last fall...
Nevertheless, Stassen had left the impression that he knew something about Ike's intentions; in fact, the easy inference from what he had done and said was that he was convinced Eisenhower would not be a candidate. But the inference might be too easy. In a national convention, there is a strong trading position in an open candidacy, and nothing that Harold Stassen said would stand in the way if he decided to throw his delegates over to the side of another candidate. Furthermore, the ring was there and Harold Stassen had thrown his hat in it before...
...Harold Stassen's catlike footfall thundered in the ears of jumpy Republicans-for-Eisenhower like an elephant stampede. In Washington, Pennsylvania's Big Jim Duff, straw boss of the Eisenhower forces, grabbed the telephone to talk to Ike Strategist Henry Cabot Lodge in Beverly, Mass. A transatlantic telephone call crackled through to Ike's headquarters in Paris. Then Duff's office issued a one-sentence statement in Lodge's name: "I can assert authoritatively that nothing happened at the conference between Eisenhower and Stassen to justify any inference whatever that Eisenhower would...