For the Record

In the wind: Rockefeller strategy, keep in close touch with Liberal Republicans running for office in 1960 but okay their posturing as pro-Nixon until after state primaries. Purpose of maneuver: let the individual candidates get regular, pro-Nixon party support in primaries, and only then defect in waves to Rockefeller, touching off Rocky stampede . . . Rockefeller reported “absolutely exhausted” by politicking of last month and so is vacationing in Venezuela . . . Under advisement in Nixon camp: suggestions that Nixon designate his Cabinet preferences in advance. Specifically, he is being urged to announce that, if elected, J. Edgar Hoover would be his choice for Attorney General.

Hammarskjold and Nehru pressuring Laos to withdraw its complaint against North Vietnam. … Red China, in move to keep bad news about China’s internal affairs from reaching rest of world, has banned export of all newspapers except official Peiping Peoples’ Daily …. British government quickly cold-shouldered proposal by Labor that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai be invited to England. … Britain on brink of renewing diplomatic relations with United Arab Republic, after three years . . . Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny warns that African Communists are using Guinea as base for penetration of other African areas.

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In the wind: Rockefeller strategy, keep in close touch with Liberal Republicans running for office in 1960 but okay their posturing as pro-Nixon until after state primaries. Purpose of maneuver: let the individual candidates get regular, pro-Nixon party support in primaries, and only then defect in waves to Rockefeller, touching off Rocky stampede . . . Rockefeller reported “absolutely exhausted” by politicking of last month and so is vacationing in Venezuela . . . Under advisement in Nixon camp: suggestions that Nixon designate his Cabinet preferences in advance. Specifically, he is being urged to announce that, if elected, J. Edgar Hoover would be his choice for Attorney General.

Hammarskjold and Nehru pressuring Laos to withdraw its complaint against North Vietnam. … Red China, in move to keep bad news about China’s internal affairs from reaching rest of world, has banned export of all newspapers except official Peiping Peoples’ Daily …. British government quickly cold-shouldered proposal by Labor that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai be invited to England. … Britain on brink of renewing diplomatic relations with United Arab Republic, after three years . . . Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny warns that African Communists are using Guinea as base for penetration of other African areas.