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We join with those who hope that Senator Know-land will not retire from public life in 1958. We go further: we hope he has political ambitions of the highest kind, and that he will pursue those ambitions, the realization of which would, in our judgment, be a stimulus to freedom.

It’s a comfort to learn that even the State Department draws the line somewhere. Last week the Kadar gang of servile assassins that calls itself the government of Hungary had the grotesque effrontery to announce its “willingness” to accept Western aid pro-vided it is offered “without political conditions.” Mr. Lincoln White, the Department’s chief press officer, declared with unusual grammatical simplicity: “We will not assist the present regime in Hungary.” Let us hope he will not be overruled by you-know-who.

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We join with those who hope that Senator Know-land will not retire from public life in 1958. We go further: we hope he has political ambitions of the highest kind, and that he will pursue those ambitions, the realization of which would, in our judgment, be a stimulus to freedom.

It’s a comfort to learn that even the State Department draws the line somewhere. Last week the Kadar gang of servile assassins that calls itself the government of Hungary had the grotesque effrontery to announce its “willingness” to accept Western aid pro-vided it is offered “without political conditions.” Mr. Lincoln White, the Department’s chief press officer, declared with unusual grammatical simplicity: “We will not assist the present regime in Hungary.” Let us hope he will not be overruled by you-know-who.