Mailed from Washington last week to individuals and organizations all over the U.S. were thousands of mimeographed requests for signatures on a petition addressed to the President of the U.S. The petition's seven sponsors made an impressive list of American leaders from both parties: ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-Ambassador (to Japan) Joseph C. Grew, ex-Governor (NJ.) Charles Edison, Republican Senator (N.J.) H. Alexander Smith, Democratic Senator (Ala.) John Sparkman, Republican Representative (Minn.) Walter H. Judd, Democratic Representative (Mass.) John W. McCormack. The petition:
Dear Mr. President:
We hereby express our opposition to the admission of the so-called Chinese People's Republic to the United Nations...
