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■ Cool was verdict on behavior of Ohio Gov. James Rhodes at Colorado Springs GOP Governors Conference. Rhodes refused to be drawn into ’68 power Struggle, is believed to want to control bloc of Midwestern delegates (he has the 58 Ohio votes) and make his play at convention time . . . Sen. Hugh Scott’s commitment to George Romney could cost GOP Liberals dear. Scott was in line for chairmanship of Senate Campaign Committee (that’s where the money is) which Thruston Morton is relinquishing; combination of his pro-Romneyism, anti-conservatism, could now throw it to Sen. George Murphy . . . . California Democrats think they have answer in charm-line to Murphy and Ronald Reagan. Actor Gregory Peck. Would he be interested? Reply: “I am hardly indifferent to the idea of public service.” Specific race: to contest Thomas Kuchel’s Senate seat in ’68 which Sam Yorty, a not – so – Liberal Democrat, also is angling for . . . . Texas AFL-CIO leaders boast they threw senatorial election to Republican John Tower by withholding support from Democrat Waggoner Carr who was insufficiently Liberal for labor’s liking.

■ Almost sorry for Bertrand Russell and his ill-fated war crimes trial. Now both British and French authorities have ruled invalid the visa held by Russell’s chief aide in organizing the tribunal, the American Princetonian Ralph Schoenman. Pres. Léopold Senghor, who pulled out as sponsor a month ago, now adds that he “refuses to issue any unilateral condemnations in the Vietnamese war” which, after all, “Pres. Johnson inherited.” French authorities who have informed Lord Russell he can’t hold his trial on their soil last week also kayoed a move by Vietcong to set up an “information” office in Paris. . . . Parson Martin Niemoller (antiNazi, fellow traveler) is reported by Worker to have collected DM 300,- 000 for North Vietnamese war relief . . . . Norwegian students, irritated at anti-U.S. demonstrations, have erected a replica of Berlin Wall near the parliament in Oslo which bears the sign: “The Berlin Wall is a Breach of Human Rights.”

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■ Cool was verdict on behavior of Ohio Gov. James Rhodes at Colorado Springs GOP Governors Conference. Rhodes refused to be drawn into ’68 power Struggle, is believed to want to control bloc of Midwestern delegates (he has the 58 Ohio votes) and make his play at convention time . . . Sen. Hugh Scott’s commitment to George Romney could cost GOP Liberals dear. Scott was in line for chairmanship of Senate Campaign Committee (that’s where the money is) which Thruston Morton is relinquishing; combination of his pro-Romneyism, anti-conservatism, could now throw it to Sen. George Murphy . . . . California Democrats think they have answer in charm-line to Murphy and Ronald Reagan. Actor Gregory Peck. Would he be interested? Reply: “I am hardly indifferent to the idea of public service.” Specific race: to contest Thomas Kuchel’s Senate seat in ’68 which Sam Yorty, a not – so – Liberal Democrat, also is angling for . . . . Texas AFL-CIO leaders boast they threw senatorial election to Republican John Tower by withholding support from Democrat Waggoner Carr who was insufficiently Liberal for labor’s liking.

■ Almost sorry for Bertrand Russell and his ill-fated war crimes trial. Now both British and French authorities have ruled invalid the visa held by Russell’s chief aide in organizing the tribunal, the American Princetonian Ralph Schoenman. Pres. Léopold Senghor, who pulled out as sponsor a month ago, now adds that he “refuses to issue any unilateral condemnations in the Vietnamese war” which, after all, “Pres. Johnson inherited.” French authorities who have informed Lord Russell he can’t hold his trial on their soil last week also kayoed a move by Vietcong to set up an “information” office in Paris. . . . Parson Martin Niemoller (antiNazi, fellow traveler) is reported by Worker to have collected DM 300,- 000 for North Vietnamese war relief . . . . Norwegian students, irritated at anti-U.S. demonstrations, have erected a replica of Berlin Wall near the parliament in Oslo which bears the sign: “The Berlin Wall is a Breach of Human Rights.”