Barnstorming Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen whirled through Belgium in one day. France took only five. But this week as he headed for Athens, on the third leg of his two-month, 18-country tour, he was scooping up information like a snowplow.
He concentrated on interviews. In Paris he sat down with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Premier Paul Ramadier, President Vincent Auriol, Communist Labor Boss Benoit Frachon, and a raft of other politicians and industrialists. In his off-hours he hustled through the Renault and Chausson factories (autos and trucks) and a textile plant; he talked with businessmen, workers, storekeepers. He had the...
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