National Affairs: Salvation

New Jersey's Republican Representative Frank A. Mathews Jr., who bobs up at long intervals to toss a nutshell on the floor of the House, made a characteristically laconic speech last week. Said he: "Mr. Speaker, I hope somebody will save this country from some of the people in it who are trying to save the' world." Then he sat down.

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