U.S. At War: Stassen Starts

The Stassen Presidential campaign began last week. Minnesota's able young Senator Joe Ball, speaking to the nation over CBS, outlined the four qualities a 1944 candidate must have. His points 1) a foreign policy of strong internationalism, a domestic program of full employment; 2) proved administrative ability to untangle the "mushrooming jungle of Federal Bureaus"; 3) leadership, instead of waiting "for public opinion to be developed by leaders and then go along with it"; 4) the capacity to get along with Congress.

Joe Ball insisted that he was not knocking Stassen's rivals. But Point 2 obviously thrust at Wendell Willkie, who has...

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