The United Nations has retained an ad agency to present to the U.S. public arguments for the admission of Red China. The ads will appear free in papers, magazines, TV, as “public service. ” . . . However, the U.S. public appears to have made up its mind: The Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations has just issued a declaration of opposition, signed by 335 congressmen. The Committee’s ad in 1956 was signed by 180 congressmen; in 1960, by 271. … The Communist Worker editorializes that “Communists and all other left forces” must unite behind LBJ and the Democrats to defeat Goldwater. . Sen. Margaret Chase. Smith (R, Me.) says she will not turn over her Maine ’ s-favorite-daughter Convention delegates to Governor Scranton, and declines to join stop.-Goldwater movement. Conservatives pleased that David A. Nich-o1S will be new Republican National Committeeman from Maine.
New York radio station WBAI had something of a first by presenting interview with unrepentant dope peddler. . . . In California, disabled clergyman C. Fain Kyle, a Negro with 6 children, was kicked off local relief rolls when he made a speech for Goldwater. Rev. Kyle called it “raw politics.” Proponents of a postage stamp commemorating the late General of the Army Douglas MacArthur are finding PO bureaucrats and congressional committees uncooperative…. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, having taken over a bankrupt private bank, is embarrassed by one of its new assets: a mortgage on a bordello out West. (The Westward-Ho House, mebbe?)




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