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Candidate Harold Stassen, galloping through the South, took a passing swipe at Candidate Bob Taft. In New Orleans, obviously referring to Taft for his cautious position on foreign aid, Stassen chomp-chided: "I plead with the members of our Republican party not to become afflicted with a chronic fixation of opposition...
...Then Stassen turned his attention to Tom Dewey, who so far has even declined to admit that he is a candidate. Stassen had already taken one crack at Dewey. "There is nothing in America's political history," he had said, "to recommend an evasive policy, followed at an eleventh hour by a 'me too' answer...
...Correct Thing. In Milwaukee, with his eyes on Wisconsin's April primary, Stassen swung again, including the G.O.P. "presidential pickers" in his haymaker. "It is their view," he said, "that the correct thing to do is to go through very elaborate operations of looking the other way; that the difficult, hard, controversial issues of the day should be avoided and the people should not be told our views upon them; that a long vacation trip should be taken admiring mountains and lakes and rivers and flowers and crops and livestock. These riders of regal reaction hold that a position...
...Fouling Practice. But for all his dignity, Tom Dewey also had his sleeves rolled up. He had given Stassen a haughty punch in the nose for the needling which the Stassen forces had been giving him. He had authorized an aide to state: "The Governor never criticizes other members of his party publicly. He does not follow the practice of those who foul their own nests...
Harold E. Stassen (Mon. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Speaking from Milwaukee...