POLITICAL NOTES: Travels & Testimonials

Among the passengers aboard the U.S. transport General Patch when it left New York harbor for Europe last week were Mr. & Mrs. Frank Carlson. They were off on a month's trip to Europe to see their daughter Eunice Marie in Bremerhaven, and to visit Sweden, Great Britain and France. It was just a vacation, apparently. Nevertheless, the eyes of some key U.S. politicians were riveted on one Carlson stopover: Paris. Republican Senator Carlson of Kansas, one of the top men in the Ike-for-President movement, is going to Paris to talk with General Dwight Eisenhower.

The Carlson voyage was part...

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