National Affairs: Three Versions

It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.

—John G. Saxe

Like the fabled blind men of Indostan, two Senators and a Representative last week dropped by SHAPE headquarters near Paris for a chat with General Eisenhower, then failed utterly to agree on what they observed. Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson was convinced that Ike is a Republican: "I didn't ask . . . I've known him a long time. When you know a man well, you don't feel it necessary...

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