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...when NATO nations reopen disarmament discussions with Russia, the man who represented the U.S. at last summer's talks in London is an odds-on bet not to do it again. Reason: State Department Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen, who kept the State Department quivering nervously during the 1957 negotiations, continues to disagree on basics with Secretary of State Dulles. Like Adlai Stevenson, Stassen believes the U.S. must make a conference-opening concession, i.e., cessation of nuclear testing for a short period as a demonstration of faith. Dulles is unalterably opposed to that idea and also to Stassen...
...plan infuriated New Jersey Republicans, who knew that Alex Smith was anxious to retire after 2½ terms, hoped to select his successor without a bloodletting primary. Irritating them also was Shanley's lightweight claim to political fame. In four years at the White House, the onetime Stassen-for-President strategist has tried to influence patronage, has riled Smith and Senator .Clifford Case by interfering with their federal appointments. His announcement virtually guaranteed that New Jersey's fractured Republican Party will pull itself together to clobber...
...miracle, items began flowering in political columns last winter, casting lonesome Republican Harold Stassen, 50, 'as a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1958 (he served three terms as governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1945). U.S. Disarmament Adviser Stassen demurely maintained a no-comment attitude, but bought a piece of property near Valley Forge...
Last week the stones began to blossom again. Stassen said: "It is too soon to make any announcements for 1958," and then denied that that was a denial. Evidently he can hear political calls too high-pitched for human ears. Washington and Pennsylvania politicians believe that Stassen is ready to run, but there was no sign anyone wanted...
...protested that this was no presidential endorsement for Nixon ("they're all good men"), but he gave notably shorter shrift to others. Said he of retired General Alfred Gruenther: "I don't know him well." And of California's Senator William Knowland and Hardy Perennial Harold Stassen: "I haven't seen them campaigning...