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...more significant. This was because his foreign-policy utterances have hitherto been models of political generality; because the Old Guard has fondly regarded him as the most domestic-minded of candidates; because he is from the Midwest, where latent isolationism is supposed to be most deeply rooted. But John Bricker has lately begun to surprise more & more people who have hitherto dismissed him as a personable, amiable man who, though an excellent speaker and administrator, lacks any serious qualifications for the Presidency. Patiently campaigning up & down the land, Bricker has quietly been making friends. His speech last week, delivered...
Speaking in Manhattan two days apart, more explicitly than either has before, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker were substantially agreed on a Republican foreign-policy plank. Its keynote: "realistic" internationalism, solidly based on national self-interest...
...National Interests." After this resolute clearing of the ground, Governor Bricker proceeded to build his own foreign-policy platform. He came out flatly for U.S. participation in "a cooperative organization of sovereign nations. . . . The major purpose of such an institution must be to establish a reign of law among nations. . . . Personally, I have always felt that the United States should join the World Court...
Texan Creager's action was significant of the growing rush to the Dewey bandwagon. Heretofore, Ohio's Bricker was generally understood to have inherited the support of the South's "kept" Republican delegations which Ohio's Taft acquired in 1940. Some political dopesters now concluded that Warren had everything that was coming to him, that Dewey's running mate will turn out to be John Bricker-who is now the only candidate, Republican or Democratic, who has thrown his hat into the ring and jumped after...
...Bricker...