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Emerging from the White House last week after a foreign policy talk with President Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson had a tidbit for waiting reporters: he is considering running next year for the Illinois Senate seat now held by Republican Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen...
Adlai said that he had been asked by Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley if he was "interested in running," and that he had discussed the possibility with President Kennedy. Stevenson plans to announce his final decision, to be "guided by the best interests of my party and the Administration," by the end of this year...
...Stevenson's news-which came a day after he had raised his domestic political stock with a strong speech in the United Nations opposing the admission of Communist China (see THE WORLD)-gave many Democrats hope for unseating Dirksen. In Illinois, where his grandfather once served two terms as a U.S. Representative before becoming Grover Cleveland's Vice President, Adlai Stevenson served as Governor, after a 572,000-vote plurality over his Republican opponent. But wrhen he became the Democratic presidential standardbearer, he lost the state by heavy margins in his two unsuccessful bids against Dwight Eisenhower...
Then it was the turn of U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Speaking solemnly, without a trace of his familiar humor, he delivered one of his best speeches since he came to the U.N. The substance of his argument was no different from the established U.S. position, but the temperate earnestness of his style impressed most listeners. He appealed to the neutral nations who mistakenly "believe that the U.N. can somehow accommodate this unbridled power" and warned that they were making a tragic mistake if they yielded to "the claims of an aggressive and unregenerate" Red China, that still acts...
Conquering Design. Stevenson argued that the admission of Red China would 1) be irreversible. 2) add a "disruptive and demoralizing influence" to the U.N., 3) shake public confidence in the U.N., especially in the U.S., "and this alone would significantly weaken the organization," and 4) give tacit consent to Red China's "design to conquer Taiwan and the eleven million people who live there...