70 Year Magazine Archive

For the Record

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Harold E. Stassen, who recently bought a home in Valley Forge, is getting little encouragement in running for Governor of Pennsylvania. He did not receive a single vote in a poll of Republican Party state committeemen and county chairmen…. Conservative Republicans in Ohio who in voting for Lausche last year voted conservative rather than Republican, have been rebuked by GOP National Chairman Meade Alcorn. (A Republican Senator from Ohio would have given the GOP control of the upper house).

Most of the Germans still living in Communist Poland are rushing to leave the country before the repatriation agreement with West Germany expires at the end of the year. The loss of experienced German coal miners in what used to be German Silesia will be a serious blow to the hard-pressed Polish economy…. The number of East German refugees seeking asylum in West Germany rose from an average of 4,500 weekly to upwards of 6,000 in the last week of November…. Insight into a police state: Of the 68 officials whose execution in the past 20 years was confirmed by Soviet authorities last week, 18 were high-ranking secret police officers.

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