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Instead, Democrats are planning a strategy that calls for: 1) buttressing party unity, even at the risk of inviting charges that Democrats are "going slow" or "turning conservative"; 2) sharpshooting at Republican disunity and at "those awful men around Ike," without getting stung by the President's personal popularity, and 3) reviewing the President's program, and attacking it on carefully chosen domestic issues...
...Mahoney (69). West Virginia's Matthew Neely (79), Virginia's A. Willis Robertson (67), Nebraska's Keith Neville (70), South Carolina's Edgar Brown (66), Kansas' George McGill (75) and, of course, D'Ewart's own opponent, Senator Jim Murray. Murray, stung by the oblique reference to his age, promptly boiled over. Said he: "I'm so decrepit I would welcome D'Ewart to come on this platform, and we'd see who is the old man. I'm willing to give $2.000 to any charity you have...
...That is abominably base," cried Mendès, stung...
Question of Confidence. Stung, Mendès-France leaped up to reply. In the 1955 budget, cuts would have to be made in both military and civilian expenses, he said. But he promised "a rigorous defense" of the currency; to mollify the workers and peasants, he promised to lower the barriers to foreign competition "with the utmost prudence." But in the main lines of his program, and in his demand for full power, Mendès-France would not yield a centimeter. "The vote will be a question of confidence," he told the National Assembly, and in the prevailing atmosphere...
...figure 32, which stung President Arbenz, is currently marked on pavements, tires, lunch pails and even the presidential residence in Guatemala City. As every Guatemalan knows, it is the number of the article of the country's constitution that bans "political parties of an international or foreign character." If Arbenz conscientiously enforced Article 32, life would be harder for Guatemala's Communists. There is no sign that he intends to do anything of the sort...