THE WEEK

• In France nothing endures like the provisional, and in America nothing is as changing as the permanent—in this case, the “permanent government debt ceiling”: recently lifted from $275 to $285 billion, in order to accommodate this year’s prospective $12 billion deficit.

• Anyone so foolish as to suppose that Senator Knowland could be scared off the right-to-work issue by his setback in the California primary, can now rest easy. Like the late Senator Taft, Mr. Knowland shows that he is not only ready but eager to take on organized labor; moreover, he showed this last week, when he persuaded the Republican State Convention in California to discard an anti-right-to-work plank it had adopted in 1956. Mr. Knowland evidently has at least the tacit assent of his party in urging the adoption of an anti-union shop measure in the November referendum. The Senate Minority Leader later turned to his opponent, State Attorney Edmund Brown (“Buster Brown” is what Knowland is calling him) and charged him with laxity toward labor “mobsters and gangsters”; the latter, Knowland says, have moved into California at an alarming rate during Buster’s administration. L. Stewart Hinckley, an able State Assemblyman, was named campaign manager. Mr. Knowland clearly intends to wage a fighting campaign and to tackle, not evade, the important issues.

Featured Tags

British Conservative Party

• In France nothing endures like the provisional, and in America nothing is as changing as the permanent—in this case, the “permanent government debt ceiling”: recently lifted from $275 to $285 billion, in order to accommodate this year’s prospective $12 billion deficit.

• Anyone so foolish as to suppose that Senator Knowland could be scared off the right-to-work issue by his setback in the California primary, can now rest easy. Like the late Senator Taft, Mr. Knowland shows that he is not only ready but eager to take on organized labor; moreover, he showed this last week, when he persuaded the Republican State Convention in California to discard an anti-right-to-work plank it had adopted in 1956. Mr. Knowland evidently has at least the tacit assent of his party in urging the adoption of an anti-union shop measure in the November referendum. The Senate Minority Leader later turned to his opponent, State Attorney Edmund Brown (“Buster Brown” is what Knowland is calling him) and charged him with laxity toward labor “mobsters and gangsters”; the latter, Knowland says, have moved into California at an alarming rate during Buster’s administration. L. Stewart Hinckley, an able State Assemblyman, was named campaign manager. Mr. Knowland clearly intends to wage a fighting campaign and to tackle, not evade, the important issues.