Kennedy strategists welcoming third party movements and “free elector” slates in South. They feel any such move would take votes from Nixon, help Kennedy carry Dixie. . . . Despite coverups (e.g., Kennedy pilgrimage to Hyde Park), Lehman-Finletter-Eleanor Roosevelt faction of New York Democratic Party still unfriendly to Kennedy. On opposite side of fence, some Rockefeller aides passing word to Republican precinct leaders to “go easy” in support of Nixon. . . . Former governor Allan Shivers, a conservative, may return to politics and oppose Lyndon Johnson (running both for the Senate and the VP-ship) in Texas Senate race. . . . Barry Goldwater reports 80 per cent of his post-convention mail approved his public appeal to conservatives to support Nixon.
Dag Hammerskjold said to have, in pocket, ten-year-plan for UN running of Congo ; it calls for 50,000 UN employees there. . . . Soviet diplomat Andre Fomin said to have written Lumumba’s attack on Hammerskj old. . . . Belgium, faced with economic disaster in Congo, also prepares 20 per cent cutback in unproductive coal mines by 1962 under agreement with Coal-Steel Community. . . . Best description of Leopoldville today, in Wall Street Journal: “It has a deceptive Sunday morning atmosphere—which las.ts all week.”
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