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Democrats think they now know the answers to questions that have plagued political analysts ever since Geneva. To wit, is the American public really impressed with the wisdom of coexistence or even of “testing the sincerity of Soviet intentions?” The Democrats are convinced that the answers are “no,” and office-seekers are being told to play their cards accordingly.

But “accordingly” involves a more complicated problem. Despite their evaluation of the public temper on Geneva, Democratic candidates are not going to present themselves to the electorate as militant anti-Communists—any more than Democratic Congressmen “picked up the Communist-in-government issue and ran with it,” as political dopesters freely predicted they would after the McCarthy censure.

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Democrats think they now know the answers to questions that have plagued political analysts ever since Geneva. To wit, is the American public really impressed with the wisdom of coexistence or even of “testing the sincerity of Soviet intentions?” The Democrats are convinced that the answers are “no,” and office-seekers are being told to play their cards accordingly.

But “accordingly” involves a more complicated problem. Despite their evaluation of the public temper on Geneva, Democratic candidates are not going to present themselves to the electorate as militant anti-Communists—any more than Democratic Congressmen “picked up the Communist-in-government issue and ran with it,” as political dopesters freely predicted they would after the McCarthy censure.