Tom Dewey’s haste to dine with Vice President Nixon right after Governor Rockefeller’s latest pulse taking trip touched off Washington rumors that Dewey wants to get an option for Nelson on the ticket’s second spot. … Latest polls indicate it’s a ’’solid West” for the GOP so far as Presidential prospects are concerned. . . . Congressional staff members taking a look at possible “payola” in book publishing industry. Best-seller lists may get a long overdue screening.
Informed French opinion expects an Algerian “cease fire” to be negotiated before Khrushchev visit to Paris. Both sides held back on peace talks until adjournment of UN General Assembly (for different reasons). . . . Semi-official French news agency (Agence France Press) estimates rebels suffered 120,000 killed, 60,000 imprisoned in first five years Algerian war. French killed listed as 10,000. … Since Tunisia and Morocco got their independence five years ago, 110,000 French-origin families have left for metropolitan France.




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