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...political winds that have been whirling through the South took on pattern and direction last week. The pattern led to two conclusions which seemed to be, but were not, contradictory: 1) there will be no organized bolt of the party by Southern Democratic leaders, 2) Dwight Eisenhower has a better chance to carry Southern states than any Republican candidate since Herbert Hoover...
Rhubarb & Calomel. The pattern emerged most clearly in South Carolina, whose Democratic leaders gathered at Columbia to complete the state convention recessed last April. The man whose attitude counted most was old Governor James Byrnes. Southern Democrats, he told the convention, had won some victories at Chicago. Stevenson was the most conservative and best-qualified candidate, excepting Georgia's Dick Russell. John Sparkman had always been true to the South on civil rights. The platform is bad on civil rights, but might have been worse if the South hadn't been in there fighting. Then the governor...
...more austerity and cuts in imports, a slight boost in coal production, and an end to cheap credit. Now, continued Butler, Britain's $13 billion rearmament program, begun so bravely in early 1951 by the Socialists (with full Tory support), will assume under the Tories "a new pattern." Defense production would be cut somewhat to allow more manufacture of dollar-earning export items...
...will not answer a question if I do not choose," snapped Churchill. On the "new pattern" of rearmament, Churchill spoke words that were almost a steal from the lines spouted for months by Nye Bevan: "The defense programs must be kept within the limits of our economic strength." Machinery, automobiles, armaments and other metal-using industries would have to be given a higher priority for export goods, and defense production would have to suffer. Well, how much...
...heat off its frantic Intelligence Section, the Air Force answered some questions. Major General Roger M. Ramey, Director of Operations, and Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, did their best to explain away the excitement. All the reports together, said General Ramey, do not establish any pattern that can be construed as menacing. After six years of study, he is "reasonably well" convinced that there is no such thing as a "flying saucer...