THE WEEK

• Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has become something of a social lion around Washington simply by grinning—a facial exercise rarely indulged in by previous emissaries of Murder, Inc. Not long ago a bevy of Republican ladies from Ohio, in Washington for a meeting, called on him, and then gushed to the press that he was “cute.” The latest organization to go in for this kind of thing is the New York Young Republican Club, which has scheduled a noserubbing session with Menshikov as a part of its annual pilgrimage to Washington. We are assured that no harm comes of these visits, however; Ambassador Menshikov has not yet persuaded a single Republican to spit on Vice President Nixon.

• The voters of Alabama have overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the election law which leaves the Alabama Presidential electors free to cast their votes for any one they choose, regardless of which party carries the state on election day. Georgia has a similar law on its books, and between now and convention-time, 1960, other Southern states are expected to follow suit. It should act as a timely warning to party chiefs that, although Little Rock finished the Republican Party in the South, it did not rehabilitate in Southern minds a Democratic leadership whose policies could only lead to more Little Rocks in the future.

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• Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has become something of a social lion around Washington simply by grinning—a facial exercise rarely indulged in by previous emissaries of Murder, Inc. Not long ago a bevy of Republican ladies from Ohio, in Washington for a meeting, called on him, and then gushed to the press that he was “cute.” The latest organization to go in for this kind of thing is the New York Young Republican Club, which has scheduled a noserubbing session with Menshikov as a part of its annual pilgrimage to Washington. We are assured that no harm comes of these visits, however; Ambassador Menshikov has not yet persuaded a single Republican to spit on Vice President Nixon.

• The voters of Alabama have overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the election law which leaves the Alabama Presidential electors free to cast their votes for any one they choose, regardless of which party carries the state on election day. Georgia has a similar law on its books, and between now and convention-time, 1960, other Southern states are expected to follow suit. It should act as a timely warning to party chiefs that, although Little Rock finished the Republican Party in the South, it did not rehabilitate in Southern minds a Democratic leadership whose policies could only lead to more Little Rocks in the future.