REPUBLICANS: Not No, No, No

The Republican Party's strategy committee huddled in Chicago last week to devise a strategy for the 1950 congressional campaign, and perhaps even the presidential race of 1952. The strategy: 1) immobilize the party's moderates and liberals, 2) uncompromising opposition to everything the Democrats stand for.

"You need money, money and more money to get the organization rolling again," explained Illinois' Fred Virkus, a megaphone for the Colonel Bertie McCormick wing of the G.O.P. "But you are not going to get the money until you can answer the question, 'What does the Republican...

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