THE WEEK

The news that the President has largely recovered from his heart attack is reassuring. The announcement, by Dr. Paul Dudley White, was interpreted widely as a preliminary to the main event: Eisen bower’s public announcement that he will seek reelection. national review has predicted that the President will not run, but we confess to being considerably less certain, in the light of recent events, that he will retire. Whatever his decision, we are glad that the President intends to make it public in a matter of days. The time has come to quiet down the seething political situation, and to prepare for a national discussion of issues of historic moment.

The intervention by Governor Leader (and four other state governors) in the Westinghouse strike looks to us like a pro-union maneuver. The two fact-finders he named are men of high standing; but both are former New Deal appointees, and one at present an arbitrator for the AFL-CIO. If Governor Leader had acted impartially, he would surely have nominated at least one fact-finder without a longstanding record of association with labor unions. Leader has a relevant tie in common with James Carey, head of the striking union: both are political advisers of Adlai Stevenson. Westinghouse, in other words, was well advised when it turned down Governor Leader’s proposal.

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The news that the President has largely recovered from his heart attack is reassuring. The announcement, by Dr. Paul Dudley White, was interpreted widely as a preliminary to the main event: Eisen bower’s public announcement that he will seek reelection. national review has predicted that the President will not run, but we confess to being considerably less certain, in the light of recent events, that he will retire. Whatever his decision, we are glad that the President intends to make it public in a matter of days. The time has come to quiet down the seething political situation, and to prepare for a national discussion of issues of historic moment.

The intervention by Governor Leader (and four other state governors) in the Westinghouse strike looks to us like a pro-union maneuver. The two fact-finders he named are men of high standing; but both are former New Deal appointees, and one at present an arbitrator for the AFL-CIO. If Governor Leader had acted impartially, he would surely have nominated at least one fact-finder without a longstanding record of association with labor unions. Leader has a relevant tie in common with James Carey, head of the striking union: both are political advisers of Adlai Stevenson. Westinghouse, in other words, was well advised when it turned down Governor Leader’s proposal.