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...months ago the Fulbright Resolution, pledging U.S. postwar cooperation, would have thrown the House into an uproar. Congressmen feared it as a bold proposal. Now it seemed to be a very mild little document, less specific even than the Republican foreign policy adopted at Mackinac (TIME, Sept. 20). This week it was set to slide through the House with a whoop...
...they come to Mackinac? To exchange jokes and cigars in the lobby? They began to wonder. Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall had been on his way almost a week; California's Earl Warren had sat up all night in a plane. Watching the Governors fiddle and fidget, Readers' Digest's Stanley High cracked: "Never have so many come so far to do so little...
...Governors were unorganized, but slowly, surely they began to move as a team. They elbowed their way into the committees, covered the press room with pronouncements, held small rump sessions in the lobby and the bar. Soon the 100 correspondents at Mackinac found all the news coming from the Governors...
Life in the Party. But more significant, perhaps, than anything actually said at Mackinac was the vigorous action of the Governors, which proved that the Republican Party has a solid base on which to build. The fight itself not only cleared the atmosphere but ended in a demonstration of workable unity which gives G.O.P. a start for 1944, an advantage it has not enjoyed in three previous election years...
...Colonel McCormick had formally read Tom Dewey out of the party in an editorial entitled: "Tom Dewey Goes Anti-American." The Colonel had screamed at Tom Dewey: "He has finished the pilgrimage to Downing Street by way of Wall Street. . . ." But Colonel McCormick apparently approved of the final Mackinac declaration...