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...dexterity than he is usually given credit for, Attlee left the atomic and power-political grubbing to Churchill and Bevin. Two days later, just before his departure for Washington, the Prime Minister spoke of the atomic bomb on a plane reached in the U.S. only by Captain Harold E. Stassen and Senator Joseph H. Ball (see below). Said Attlee to an audience of London businessmen...
Capt. Harold E. Stassen, of Minnesota and the U.S. Navy, did more than raise the level of debate; he presented a specific framework within which the atom could be considered as a world problem...
Biggest question mark among top contenders was Captain Harold E. Stassen, U.S.N.R., Minnesota's ex-Governor soon to return to civilian life. Many a young GOPster, and many of all ages from the West and Middle West, looked to him as their leader, but he had been out of the political arena too long to be properly gauged. He has told friends that he will seek no office between now and 1948, but will discuss national and international issues freely. He is said to feel strongly that plain, unvarnished talk will pay off in the next few years...
...survey, conducted for the Republican, a national party magazine, showed that the biggest recent gainers in party approval (aside from Vandenberg, who jumped 40.7 points since 1943, for his foreign-policy views) were Bricker, Captain Harold Stassen, U.S.N.R., Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Governor Earl Warren...
...Japs knew Boyington well: he had taunted them over his radio as he roared in for kills. They gave him special treatment. Last week, after Commander Harold E. Stassen greeted him aboard a U.S. destroyer transport, he told about it: "The first ten days were the hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure...