National Affairs: Look Out, Neighbor

Out of Washington's Union Station late last week rolled the presidential railroad car, the "Ferdinand Magellan." Accompanied by daughter Margaret, Harry Truman was off on his first major whistle-stop tour of the 1952 campaign, an 8,soo-mile trip which will carry him through 24 northern and western states.

At Fargo, N. Dak., where he made his first speech, Truman swung right into a pitch that Adlai Stevenson has carefully played down—the appeal to class interest. Said Harry: "I have been fighting for the common man. I've been fighting against the special interests, and they are out to get me and to destroy all...

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