National Affairs: Tom's Tender Toes

Old Tom Connally's toes were bruised and tender. Back home in Texas, where he is running a hard campaign for reelection, some of the folks had been stepping on him for paying too little attention to Texas and too much attention to Dean Acheson and those other dudes he runs into as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

One day last week he and Acheson walked out from a closed Foreign Relations Committee meeting about the governmental crisis in France. Inside, Acheson had just assured everybody that France would take care of her...

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