THE WEEK

It’s June, and the Draft Goldwater movement is busting out all over. With the Young Republicans of the Greater Boston area it’s Goldwater over Rocky 3-1… The Hawaii GOP has named two madly-for-Barry National Committeemen…. The Central Committee of the Louisiana Republican Party, meeting in Alexandria, has pledged itself to Goldwater…. The Louisiana National Committeeman, C. H. Lyons Sr. (1500 Beck Building, Shreveport), is mailing out “Promissory Notes” to be sent to Republican state committees (“Ten days after Senator Barry Goldwater is nominated for President of the United States by the Republican Party I promise to remit…”). Edmund Birnbryer, chairman of the National Committee of Young Adults for Rockefeller, has disbanded his group and announces he, for one, is going to work for Goldwater…. Ditto, says Sen. Carl Curtis of Nebraska…. Postcards addressed to David Lawrence of U.S. News (printed without the knowledge of Mr. Lawrence) are being circulated. They state simply: I, a registered voter (check Democrat or Republican) intend to vote for Senator Goldwater if he runs for President in 1964…. And the biggest whingding of the lot is planned for July 4th. Place: National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C. Purpose: official launching of Goldwater petition campaign by the Draft Goldwater Committee (Peter O’Donnell Jr. and Mrs. Ione F. Harrington, National Chairman and Co-Chairman). Speakers: Sen. John Tower, Rep. John Ashbrook, Gov. Paul Fannin of Arizona. Entertainers: Chill Wills, Walter Brennan, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., William Lundigan. Guests: Goldwater boosters from all over the nation. For information write: National Draft Goldwater Committee, P.O. Box 1964, Washington, D.C. Better still, attend. The Goldwater gang will all be there.

A trial balloon labeled “New Red China Policy” floated up from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week and soared quickly in the updrafts of the hot Washington air. Its release had been presaged by the President’s “slip” at his last press conference, when he referred to the Nationalist Chinese Government as “the Government of Formosa.” The Administration desperately seeks “new thinking” on the China question, the story goes, and “mere recognition and admission to the UN” would no longer be adequate; American policy should be directed toward education of the Reds by economic advance in China, rather than looking for internal collapse of the regime. Get your guns, boys, it’s open season on Washington trial balloons!

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It’s June, and the Draft Goldwater movement is busting out all over. With the Young Republicans of the Greater Boston area it’s Goldwater over Rocky 3-1… The Hawaii GOP has named two madly-for-Barry National Committeemen…. The Central Committee of the Louisiana Republican Party, meeting in Alexandria, has pledged itself to Goldwater…. The Louisiana National Committeeman, C. H. Lyons Sr. (1500 Beck Building, Shreveport), is mailing out “Promissory Notes” to be sent to Republican state committees (“Ten days after Senator Barry Goldwater is nominated for President of the United States by the Republican Party I promise to remit…”). Edmund Birnbryer, chairman of the National Committee of Young Adults for Rockefeller, has disbanded his group and announces he, for one, is going to work for Goldwater…. Ditto, says Sen. Carl Curtis of Nebraska…. Postcards addressed to David Lawrence of U.S. News (printed without the knowledge of Mr. Lawrence) are being circulated. They state simply: I, a registered voter (check Democrat or Republican) intend to vote for Senator Goldwater if he runs for President in 1964…. And the biggest whingding of the lot is planned for July 4th. Place: National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C. Purpose: official launching of Goldwater petition campaign by the Draft Goldwater Committee (Peter O’Donnell Jr. and Mrs. Ione F. Harrington, National Chairman and Co-Chairman). Speakers: Sen. John Tower, Rep. John Ashbrook, Gov. Paul Fannin of Arizona. Entertainers: Chill Wills, Walter Brennan, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., William Lundigan. Guests: Goldwater boosters from all over the nation. For information write: National Draft Goldwater Committee, P.O. Box 1964, Washington, D.C. Better still, attend. The Goldwater gang will all be there.

A trial balloon labeled “New Red China Policy” floated up from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week and soared quickly in the updrafts of the hot Washington air. Its release had been presaged by the President’s “slip” at his last press conference, when he referred to the Nationalist Chinese Government as “the Government of Formosa.” The Administration desperately seeks “new thinking” on the China question, the story goes, and “mere recognition and admission to the UN” would no longer be adequate; American policy should be directed toward education of the Reds by economic advance in China, rather than looking for internal collapse of the regime. Get your guns, boys, it’s open season on Washington trial balloons!