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2. Ambassador to Red China.
3. Secretary of Defense.
4. Delegate to the U.N. General Assembly.
5. Delegate to NATO.
7. A successful diplomatic appointee was Chester Bowles whose democratic friendliness made a tremendous hit in:
1. Eire.
2. The Marquesas.
3. India.
4. Japan.
5. Iran.
8. Appointed in January as supreme civilian spokesman for the U.S. in Europe was longtime troubleshooter:
1. William Boyle.
2. William H. Draper Jr.
3. John Foster Dulles.
4. Senator Homer E. Capehart of Indiana.
5. William Remington.
9. On Capitol Hill an old friend of the U.S. startled Congress by his request for:
1. A $20 billion loan to Great Britain.
2. Union now.
3. U.S. adoption of British-type jet aircraft.
4. U.S. economic aid to Canada.
5. U.S. troops as a token force in the Suez.
10. President Truman startled no one with his State-of-the-Union message to Congress which urged all but one of these:
1. Stop Korean truce talks because they are getting nowhere.
2. Act on the Japanese Peace Treaty.
3 Help integrate the German Federal Republic into the defense scheme of Western Europe.
4. Complete a network of Pacific security pacts.
5. Provide economic aid to friends in Europe and Asia.
11. In his economic message to the same body, the President asked for a measure sure to bring opposition from both parties:
1. A special appropriation to send troops to the Suez.
2. A $6 billion appropriation for a coast-to-coast defense highway.
3. An appropriation to build a new wing for the Pentagon.
4. A $5 billion tax increase.
5. A $4 billion grant for Southern colleges.
12. "Good, good, good!" exclaimed Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy when he heard that John Stewart Service had been:
1. Named Ambassador to Moscow.
2. Named to succeed Pat McCarran as Senator from Nevada.
3. Chosen by Colonel "Bertie" McCormick as editor of the Chicago Tribune.
4. Dismissed from the RFC.
5. Fired by the State Department.
Political Notes
13. The first to avow his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Robert Taft soon bolstered his position with a book on:
1. Labor policy in the U.S.
2. How to avoid the presidential "bug."
3. His life with father, onetime President William Howard Taft.
4. A foreign policy for Americans.
5. The inner workings of the Republican Party.
14. With the stage well set by Senator Lodge, Ike in January finally broke his silence, said all but one of the following:
1. He is a Republican.
2. He will not make a pre-convention campaign for the G.O.P. nomination.
3. Indicated he might answer a clear-cut call to political duty.
4. He would not ask for relief from his NATO assignment to seek nomination.
5. He would leave his NATO post if replaced by someone like General Marshall.
15. Two other Republicans who announced willingness to be their party's nominee were California's Governor Earl Warren and a college president:
1. A. Whitney Griswold.
2. James B. Conant.
3. Harold E. Stassen.
4. Milton S. Eisenhower.
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