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They also heard from a Baptist layman who had been to Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and hoped that Americans "will never surren er to the insidious whisper of the inevitability of war." He also had something to say about the convention's business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions: 1) for withdrawing the President's special representative at the Vatican; 2) opposing the Supreme Court's decision permitting the use of public funds to transport children to Roman Catholic parochial schools. Stassen's frankness earned mild applause from his fellow Baptists—and perhaps some approving nods from Roman Catholic voters who had looked suspiciously at Stassen's cozy interview with Old Joe Stalin.