DEMOCRATS: The Issue of Softness

"This fellow." said New York's Governor Averell Harriman, waving a bony hand at a picture of Dwight Eisenhower that chanced to be hanging on the wall, "has been as naive as any person in history about the true nature of the Communist conspiracy."

Then, warming up to his task—a breakfast speech one day last week before freshman Democrats of the House and Senate—Ave recalled that in 1945 Ike had "expressed the view" that Russia and the U.S. could work together in saving the peace. "And what did he do at Geneva last year? Put his arm around his old pal,...

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