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...Republican Party in California is divided into three factions. On top is the machine run by Senator William F. Knowland and Governor Earl Warren. In opposition are 1) a conservative wing led by Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight; 2) the Young Turks, who more or less look upon Richard Nixon as their leader. Nixonites and Knowland-Warrenites got especially sore at each other during last year's presidential campaign. Never enthusiastic about Nixon's vice-presidential candidacy, Warrenites failed to come to his support when the "Nixon fund" squall broke. Then, after the election, Knowland took over...
...neither recommended nor opposed Bohlen at a conference with Foster Dulles, because he did not know Bohlen well. But he had, as a matter of routine, signed the three man committee's general letter endorsing a list of prospects which included Bohlen. That was the letter Knowland had brought to the Senate floor...
Until last week, some old-line G.O.P. leaders were inclined, like thousands of U.S. citizens, to take the view that McCarthy might be a little rough now & then, but that he was doing a needed job. Then Republican leaders, including Senators Taft and Knowland, got a sample of what has come to be known as McCarthyism. They did not like it and they...
...because they thought he was the best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric of American Government. But he has not been alone in this challenging task. People like Bob Taft of Ohio and Bill Knowland of California and Homer Ferguson of Michigan trained their sights on the Communist menace long before...
...sure that Senators Taft, Knowland and Ferguson would have hardly stood still for the Bohlen appointment if they had not convinced themselves that President Eisenhower's choice was far from being a security risk. Matter of fact, McCarthy now concedes that Chip Bohlen is not a 'security risk.' Senator McCarthy, if we read him aright, now bases his opposition on darker, more sinister innuendoes usually associated with Communist smear campaigns, such as the one organized . . . to discredit Whittaker Chambers' testimony against Alger Hiss...