Ambassador Drumright, called to Washington from Taipei for consultations after shift in U.S. policy over Outer Mongolia, will not, it is rumored, return to Formosa. (Could he be replaced by Chester Bowles, he of falling expectations?) . . . Richard Nixon, moving to tighten his grip on GOP machinery in California, will back Sen. Kuchel for re-election despite home state dissatisfaction with Kuchel’s performance in Washington. . . . One faction in California, hoping, if it can drum up sufficient money, to run young, active and controversial conservative Rep. John Rousselot against Kuchel in Republican primary. . . . Another active young GOP congressman, Donald Bruce, plugged to oppose Sen. Vance Hartke in next year’s Indiana senatorial contest. . . . John Tower, of Texas, whose resounding victory may have fanned these senatorial ambitions, is first senator ever to be named to Republican Policy Committee during his first term.
Former Cuban employees of Sears Roebuck & Co. now touring South and Central America, telling (at expense of S R & Co.) what Communism brought to Cuba. . . . Latin American governments, enthusiastic about visiting propagandists, would like to see State Department dispatch more refugee teams, fewer cultural teams. . . . Communist Workers World (July 14 issue) reported that “several hundred dollars for rifles” were raised at July 10 rally of Afro-American Alliance for Action in New York City to “raise money for guns for the Black Freedom Fighters of Monroe, North Carolina.” . . . Watch for “Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberty”—it’s latest Communist front and is distributing copies of Justice Black’s dissent in Supreme Court McCarran Act decision. . . . Despite Hoffa’s boast that Teamsters Union has grown numerically under his leadership, figures the union filed with Labor Department indicate membership is down nearly 150,000 from heyday under Dave Beck.
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