Senator George H. Bender, who will need any Administration help he can get in his forthcoming race for re-election against Ohio’s Governor Lausche, appeared as the sole defender of Harold E. Stassen when Stassen was charged with trying to “hinder and impede” a Senate Investigations Subcommittee. Bender filed a one-man minority dissent to a majority report that cites “strong evidence of collusion in a Pakistan grain-bin project which Stassen should have detected, and against which he should have taken precautions” (during his service as Foreign Aid Administrator). Mr. Stassen, who cannot count many friends among conservative Republicans, brushed off the charges as “an unjustifiable political attack”—and ignored Bender.
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