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...great convention-one of the greatest in U.S. history-and great in a particular way. Not in the level of its oratory, which can be appraised by noting that its best speech was made by Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover. Nor in its platform, which will never be mistaken for resonant prose. Nor in unity...
Civil Rights. While Elder Statesman Dulles was steering the foreign-policy course, one of the convention's youngest and prettiest delegates was the central figure in a struggle over civil rights. Mrs. Mildred Younger, a 31-year-old Los Angeles housewife, presided over the civil-rights subcommittee with an intelligent, calm hand, asked witnesses piercing questions which showed that her political experience extended far beyond the chicken-patty circuit of most women politicians. The daughter of a California lobbyist for public-school teachers and the wife of a lawyer, she was no stranger to proceedings of this kind. Said...
...said that thousands of Chinese schoolchildren had been trained in anti-germ warfare: as soon as the alarm is given, the children spread over the countryside and gather up the germ-carrying insects with chopsticks. This was too much even for Britain's pink and gullible New Statesman and Nation, which had itself taken the germ charges seriously. Now it had to admit that they had been "laughed out of court" by the Red Dean's performance...
...Does it sort out the charlatan from the statesman? Are we quite sure that Father Coughlin and Huey Long wouldn't have been bigger with the help of television? You can't stop the picture and say, 'Go look at his voting record...
...simpler days, the leading left-wing political magazines of the U.S. and Britain often stood together on issues, arms locked against the rest of the world. But all that changed after the end of World War II. Such weeklies as Britain's New Statesman and Nation and the New Republic in the U.S., or the left-wing Nation and the stoutly anti-Communist New Leader, have tangled in bitter squabbles (TIME, April 2, 1951 et seq.). The main issue: What is the proper liberal stand in the fight against Communism...