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Secretary Marshall told the Governors' Conference at Salt Lake City last night that the United States must increase its economic aid to Europe or else see a decline of democracy. At the same time in Washington Harold E. Stassen asked America not to "abandon" the eight small states remaining aloof from the Paris conference at Russia's instigation...
...strategy was clear. Up till now he had been able to sit quietly in the wings at Albany, while congressional rivals and free-speaking Harold Stassen performed before a critical audience. But now it was time to start moving. Dewey needed a blitz win on an early ballot. On every successive vote the chances of a deadlock with someone like Bob Taft would increase the danger of a dark horse...
...Including governors of seven states, 17 university presidents, Henry L. Stimson, Harold Stassen, Jim Farley, Joseph C. Grew, Banker A. P. Giannini, Author John P. Marquand, the Right Rev. William T. Manning (retired Episcopal Bishop of New York), ex-G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (see PRESS), and Historian James Truslow Adams...
...Dewey's supporters kicked and fought last week over plans to take a poll of presidential choices at the Wisconsin Republican State Convention in Madison. They were sure, or thought they were sure, that Harold Stassen's workers had thought up the poll, and that it would be a cinch for a Stassen victory. Dewey's cohorts even asked his supporters to boycott the straw vote...
When the results were announced this week, Stassenmen wished they had worked harder on the 1,159 delegates, and Dewey-men laughingly wondered why they had been worried. The poll showed these top choice results: Dewey 321; Stassen 286; Douglas MacArthur 157; Robert A. Taft 97; John Bricker 77; Arthur Vandenberg 59. Eighth choice of Wisconsin Republicans: Wisconsin's ex-Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr.-seven votes...