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Los Angeles. ARDON me a
ment while I brush the confetti from my hair. After
business
By EDWIN ROTH
Бор
at
can
watch the out last
overdue as the repeal of the (the labour Taft-Hartley Act" law, which was bitterly oppos- ed by the unions.)
After leaving, the convention, we drove through the main business, section of Los Angeles, Tens of thousands of people lined the streets and all traffic stopped. From the windows of the high buildings, cascades of confetti, streamers and torn up con telephone directories descend- ed. The noise was terrific.
watching this fantastic ingent of Hollywood stars photographers American election cam- travelled in an open car im-take-off and send paign. for
minute stories, over three mediately behind Stevenson. months all the way.
We drove across Bay Bridge, But landings are always timed across the continent, after which is
the largest bridge in so that the Press arrives at the least ten travelling with Adlai Steven- the world. By Dam. we were next
Dwight
University minutes before the candidate, tel Eisenhower outside the famous
of California in Berkeley. There, and President Truman, I several thousand students were
We took off from Sacramento
By 5 Pan. Stevenson was thought I knew what it walling to hear Stevenson speak at 1.15 p.m., and, after lunching
In the air, landed at 2.40 p.m. aafely in his hotel room. He could meant for a man to try to to them for twenty minutes,
at Los Angeles.
not stay there for long. Well become President of the
before 7 pm, he had to leave for We left Berkeley at 0.30 a.m,
Thousands of enthusiastle A a television studio. There, he United States.
and want to the small town of Democrats waving all kinds of was made up and he rehearsed Richmond fifteen minutes later. Stevenson posters were waiting for his half-hour "reside chal" Here, Stevenson
addressed a A brass band
played "Happy which was televised throughout Are Days
Here Again."
"As the American continent. Stevenson left his plane, ho was again mobbed by his ne the 10118 C mirera. Then cavalcade formed up, the police
But I was wrong. Not until I had accompanied Adlai Steven- son on his last Callfornia elce- tion trip did I realise the full extent of this greatest show on earth, and the strain it puts on the chief actors.
During his ninth speech in 24. hours, Stevenson, who is 52 years old, remarked writy: sometimes wonder if I am going to survive the next day in this business," and this was partly a joke.
COW PALACE.
the
large crowd for ten minutes. Our next stop, at 10.30 am, was Vallejo, another small town, to which thousands of people had come from many miles around. Stevenson's speech Lasted just over fifteen minutes,
SACRAMENTO
we drove for an hour to
cor
FINAL RALLY
motor-cyclists set their strens H was "on the air" from 7.30
pm. to 8 pan. sitting in screaming at full pitch, and tattery of floodlights. His talk, on TVC drove along palm-lined Korea, was superbly phrased and beautifully delivered. Stevenson is a natural television "Areside Personality and the chat" type of address is his ideal
boulevards into Los Angeles.
It was a
round-about route;
THEN
Sacramento, und capital of to give as many people as pos. Callforka. We were met by local sible the chance to see Steven-
AL about contingent son,
p.m. we stop- politicians, a inrge
medium,
On your left, Adlat Stevenson, Democrat candidate for the UB. Presidency on your right. Dulght D. Eisenhower, Republican candidate; on your left, Dwight D... Oh, it makes no diference for here, in a composite photograph. is the authentic grin of the next 0.3. President an Amalgam of the "Stevenson-Etsenhower countenances.
Wives let
the steak frizzle-THAT
MEANS THEY'VE POLL FEVER
by R. M. MacCOLL
ان
I joined Stevenson at 7 p.m.
Immediately after this telecast, at an hotel in San Francisco. of Sacramento's own elly police ped in the middle of the negro
The district. Thousands of negroes we drove to the biggest hall in He had just flown in from the and a loudspeaker car.
when one of their town for the final rally of the loudspeaker state of Washington in
car preceded us cheered into town playing "Star, and politicians told them, "This is day. Some three thousand peo- northwest of America, where he had made several speeches Stripes Forever," and all the the first time in history that a ple were there, cheering them-
hoarse. has relves candidate As we presidential police sirens screamed
Again, split- during the day. In the hot drove slowly past thousands of visited our district." Stevenson second timing was necessary, as
Washington. end of a hard day they would lobby, a crowd of people were
Uning the streets, minde a brief speech, and re- this speech was televised and waiting to see him. Some of People
broadenst in the Los Angeles
NE facet of life in an turn from the one tople which them were Republicans, and Stevenson sat on the hood of his ceived a great ovation.
area from 0 to 9.30 p.m.
election year for which occupied all thele werking hours and gratefully relax over the boos mingled with the cheers as open car, smiling and waving
happily. he walked to the elevator.
VERY LATE
After his speech, Stevenson
I had not quite bar- soothing drink with non-politicol received gigantle ovation. He Outside California's domed
shook hands with the Hollywood gained was the virtual im- chit-chat.
Wrong again. Capitol building, many ROM there we drove to a big stars, who had been with us possibility of escaping
From
the premises thousands had assembled. Here theatre, where the annual
since San Francisco, and had his from the yaketty-yaketty- Washington's National Press was Stevenson, with Humphrey convention of the American hands grabbed by PY 0.15 p.m. Stevenson
countless yak of talk about the club there arisen all day and and Lauren Dready to drive to the Cow Bogart
Bacall Federation of Labour "Team-
dection.
most of the night a hum of Palace, an enormous ball some silting beside him, spoke for ster's Union"-America's biggest people on his way to his car.
punditry Was he now allowed to go to transport workers union of six miles outside San Francisco, over half an hour.
It has now got to the pitch unguished correspondents from Certainly session. The transport his hotel and rest? The sirens of two dozens police The sir
our escorting
From the Capitol building, we workers' delegates rose, cheered not. He drove out to the airport, where I have developed a bit of the Press of America canvass motor-cyclists
their views and sometimes, or Sachmento as drove to cavalende
several where his plane was waiting to a persecution mania. screamed wildly we drove through the brightly
fly him to San Diego, so that he
This past week-end I motored 50 It seems to me, appear to be would be ready to make a speech out
interviewing one another. to the small town in it streets of this beautiful and fascinating city.
there early next morning, before Fennsylvania where my 15- flying to Texas.
year-old daughter goes, to Trying to become President of school. here long the United States is a strenuous planes, so that Journalists and overdue," he sold, as long job.
The hall Wis packed with 23,000 wildly enthusiastic people Stevenson had to wait back stage while four Hollywood flm stars-Humphrey Bogart, his wife Lauren Bacall, Mer- cedes McCambridge and Robert Ryan--entertained the crowd and made spreches supporting
·him.-
At nine o'clock, radio and television went on the air, anti
a local Democrat. formally in- troduced "The Next President
the United States," of
Chinese
community outside China, and what followed was one of the most striking events of the entire election campaign,
CHINATOWN
was in
airport. and whistled for
where Stevenson boarded his minutes when Stevenson walk- special plane. Then about aed on to the stage, hundred journalists climbed aboard
the two Press planes. Stevenson Was very late, The candidate's plane always and his apology was typical of
off before the Press him. "I arrived takes
THE LAST ROUND-UP
P
ber
Will
and
By
Frank Oliver
position was even more precar- against an increare
in public Of 96 members 49 were housing and against school fous,
Democrats and 47 Republicans. construction.
A real working inajority de mands much more, for half the Democratic seats are in what
Good Majority joint committee
i stil!
und will hold it. Average Democrats feel Stevenson is fast coming up on the call and will win
by at least a head. A slashing victory for either only a shadow of their original Given time the win might be Presidential
candidate would stives... even better.
undoubtedly carry in a good
Headaches
They all talk
dis-
Here, at last, I thought, I may double jeopardy. For there S an Englishman I am in find a little surcease. Idlo chatter about filin
stars, is constant curiosity among my perhaps. A harmless discussion friends of the American
as to what Britain of my daughter's new autumn and radio wardrobe.
thinks of it all.
Wrong.
Press
I am forever being button- "Hullo, Dad," she greeted me. holed by colleagues eager to The-boys-are-having-fights-weave into their articles -or- down at school over the election. broadensta a few well-chosen Who's going to win? Do you words from myself. think Eisenhower? Gee, I hope Here in Washington when
of the girls like Ike. waken in the mornings and Just Most of we're going to have an election before I drop asleep at night the at school on polling day, like radio is talking election. everyone else."
4 meal by myself in प restaurant? The waiter has decided views.
$0.
"Aren't you all too young to vote?" I asked weakly.
"Oh, it won't count, but we're going to hold an election all the
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you
Barmen organise sweepstaker on the number of electorai voles (2) TV has repeatedly each candidate will get, and brought the candidates and their proceed to give you their views even you bekers into homes, bars, and at great length
quickly buy several tickets.
clubs all over the nation,
The result? Everybody, but mtorybody, Is now'n pundit.
FOUR YEARS AGO you could seok solace at a dinner
They all ask
.New York. Only
ARTY spokesmen for When did Stevenson walk on to
both sides in the
In this election, all House Senator McCarthy of Wiscon- the platform, amidst a pande
American election are seats are being contested anti it sin voted in precisely the same monium of cheering, stamping, clapping and the saving of claiming substantial vic- is freely forecast that whichever way, so did Senator Copchart and so did Senator
I'm walking much more than hundreds of posters, While tory for November 4. Less side wins the Presidency will of Indiang
carry n small majority. Jenner of the same state except
I usually do at this time of the television floodlights blazed
binsed observers however
absent from the same." The complexion of the Senate, when he was
year because the taxi-drivers down on him with blinding
the race between no matter who wins, is less casy Chamber.
are not only passionate parti- heat, Stevenson spoke for half feel
So predlet.
did Senator Cain of Stevenson and Eisenhower to
They all know, sans but brook no an hour.
deciurrer 60 are being Washington,
dild Senator Thirty-four scats is a close one and that vic-
however mild. 14 of them held by Bricker of our, so did Senator THERE are many new factors. We left the Cow Palace at
contested,
make bets, about the People at work this year for the election then tell Democrats and 20 by Republi Kem of Missouri, so did Senator
You about 9.35 p.m. a process simpler for tory will be narrow.
than
time, in Bust the journalists
for the
American their bets. Then they hedge There are admissions among cans. That makes the Republi. Malone of Nevada.
They If Eisenhower sill believes
oll candidate, who was mobbed by crowds trying to
(1) That in many districts about that. shake his highly placed Republicans that can task a tough one.
ho will have hands or pat his back. When he if the election were on Decem- must win gain all 20 cents in NATO and all It stands for Clection, and among them are: their bets and tell
which they now hold and win a
tough time get- was safely inskle his car, the 4. Stevenson would win couple from the Democrats to ting any supporting legislation women voters outnumber the
men so fast is he making gain a bare majority.
past this group of the Re- sirens started up again and the easily, cavalcade drove into San Fran- ground, so quickly is he becom
publlean Old Guard. ing. known throughout the land,
is true that all cisco's famous Chinatown.
money .. so enlightening
originate in the must inspiring
is
Representatives but This is the world's biggest are his speeches, so definite his may be termed "normal" De House of
also have to pass the programme.
mocratic territory but only all they
Senate Average Republicans feel of the 20 Republican seats are in
where they can bo Eisenhower has a slight lead "normal" Republican territory.
amended
out of recognition and then "compromised"
in often
Istart on Tople Number One so thai they party when you discovered that DOWAGERS and debutantes in final form the woman next to you rather with the soup sometimes with come out
prided herself on not knowing the cocktails (the women are on anything about politics-con- the whole more entertaining sidered it dull stuff, fit only than the men because they have S we reached Chinatown with
for men, in fact
all Its neon-signs in Chinese
the Intest "smears""""" and THIS YEAR no American ours and love passing them and its hundreds of imitation
woman would dream of admit nours a for feeling this way, and that if for Elsenhower probably would Internationalist Senators on ung such a thing.
on-"Is it true about Mamie7": pagodas, we were met by large Chinese
in Eisenhower does win it will be put him in the position of hav- the Democratle benches would never the country dust is
an absolute fact that brass band
of as a military hero, rather than ing to work with a Chinese national costumes
small Re- probably vote for Elsenhower
under the dmw-Starchoson.** of women" ay getting swept brilliantly embroidered allks, as Republican candidate.
publican
kind but in the House legislation of this majority
The and a Democratic majority in there con be no hiding the fact ing-room, lie. It burns to. 4. some curious: effects this year.
and the steak lies rug
political know-it-alls, has had This hand marched in front of
that
unheeded Stevenson's car and blared out
the Senate. That would scarce-
with the Olu
Guard in frazzle on the firm control of the Republican women of the house la standing correspondent for the New York
grill because the ly be a happy position.
Jarnes Reston, "God Bless America” while wo
ace bolitieal If Eisenhower carries in party in the Schale, Eisenhower rapt before the TV set listening Times, observes drove slowly through thousands
seems Stevenson's campaign
Yet,
majority in the as President the to be catching fire and if a real a Republican
would of cheering Chinese lining
have not to a "soap opera" byt, if Congressional head- road.
blazo develops he can sweep a Senate he inevitably will have plenty of
you please, to a political' cándi- lot of people off the fence on to to try and work with a majority aches.
date expounding his views. At the platform,
containing a fairly long list or A Stevenson the demous the Democratie, side.
victory - would to a fairly ono Senators who (by their past undoubtedly lead were dancing dragon-dancers
In New York at least, around in their gigantic masiot, tees more and more people votes and speeches) must be la substantial Senate majority and Drums banged away; agong wearing butions that say "1 Used belled isolationists opposed to it would also achieve the de
I werd in some other rubeiantial add or even any, ald feat of some of the Old Guard F. boomed; drocrackers exploded to Like ike,"
who
profession I inight not find The possibility that the vic at all for the North Atlantie Republican Senators in clouds
acrid moko.
editorially: Stevenson made a short spooch, tory may be narrow which allies and in favour of tariff up for re-election on November it quite so. harrowing. As a tealf says
plumber or an average adjustor English limit their campaigning pased for photographs with the ever way it goes lends enormous walls which would be perhaps to European efforts to the dragon,
understandable there. 1. would be subjected only to to about three weeks. Perhaps Congressional disastrous shook all hands within. Interest reach, and seemed to enjoy elections, which go on along to earn dollars with which to fore that a number of indepan- obe kind of bore the man or in a country, of America's size
in dents are praying for a big woman who tells you who I himself thoroughly. Once again, side the Presidential rano, What finance their purchase
that would be too brief a perfort. "victory for whoever wins. going to win
But two months is too much." the police had a tough job get kind of House and Senate will America.
A narrow victory for Steven- But the fastant it leaks
To that a hearty amen from ting him back into his car. It the new President have to world. Let us take one or two ro- was well after 11 pm, when he with?
Ing majority in both houses of ad in got back to the hotel,
ministration enjoyed a small views are now espoused by Congress but if Elsenhower la I am exposed to the second: And the way everyone has, boun Next morning we left Son majority, a majority which Eisenhower, voted against to
bacape from the.capuvity of class of boro—who asks, efton acting all along, mying it's wide Francisco at 8 aim. In a long sometimes disappeared when American troops for Europe, for the Old Guard he will need a with its strangely conspiratorial open and highly uncertain and cavalcado of care and buson, the Dizicerats crossed party cutting aid to Europe, against big victory and such majorilles air, who it will bàs a CERKAKAS
1.5p, forth, we shall at least bë You would suppose that when spared the "I told you so" bord motor lines and voted with the Reald to India, for the culling of in both houses as will nullity The con- publicans. In the Senate the the Point Four programme, the work of the Old Guard.. the reportare got together at the be a pootscript,
x
escorted by police cyclists with sirens..
is that the majority of Senators of the vic- My own feeling Democrats have sound reasons for party. A narrow victory
Catching Fire
..
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cords from the past Congr CSE.
son
·
It is
pro
They all say
Is
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Wives and husbands seam.to dividing over Mesara, Stevenson
be
and Eisenhower
Some plodding sociologist ought to look into this, for it is getting 50 the old man can't even count
on . own home predn
And the Now
on a newspaper, MaeColl.
Va...
In the last Congress the Ad: Senator Taft, whose domestic might well, give him a work- that 1. Wnington of all plicos,. Ah, well, spn we shall know,