• The British Government is exercising its powers of censorship in the matter of tin can labels. No labels with pictures of human beings will be allowed on canned food shipped to the Congo—for fear that the Congolese will get the idea that this is tinned white man, and carry on from there with a little free enterprise of their own.
• “The American people have become cynically suspicious of political platforms,” Senator Barry Goldwater told the Republican platform committee last week. And with good cause, he added, noting that no party that promises something to everybody could possibly fulfill its promises. The Senator urged the platform committee to discard the traditional lengthy report, and to adopt instead a short statement of principles which would call for a firm foreign policy and a domestic policy of economy and decentralization. We must “maintain the most powerful military power in the world,” he insisted, “and be willing to use this military power to defend the rights of American citizens and to preserve American property.” In domestic affairs, he proposed the restoration of economic freedom to all farmers, condemned the “concentration of power in the hands of a few unconscionable men who have invaded the American labor movement,” and declared his faith in the free enterprise competitive system. At the close of his testimony, Senator Goldwater answered brilliantly the questions put forth by committee members, and was given a standing ovation. Governor Rockefeller, in contrast, received little applause, and much of that came from admitted Stevenson backers who had packed the galleries in search of a candidate. For all this, Rockefeller received the front-page coverage of the New York Times, while Goldwater received two inches on page 19.
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