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■ Voices of sanity: Democratic Majority leader Mike Mansfield was not at all surprised by the unceremonious firing of anti-Administration Education Commissioner Dr. James Allen. “I think the Commissioner has been sort of leading up to it,” Mansfield said. “He left the Administration no choice.” . . . Another prominent Democrat, Sen. William Proxmire, surprised commencement class at Milton College (Wis.) by praising Nixon: “The President is a decent and intelligent man. He is doing his honest best to end the Vietnam war as swiftly as he can.” Particularly valiant of Proxmire since he faces hard fight in the fall, needs all the help he can get from Big Moneybags on the Peacenik Left. . . . Still shattered, Sen. Birch Bayh at reception he got at Indianapolis 500. When Bayh was introduced he was loudly booed, the boos following his car as it made the circuit. . . . Home-staters reportedly bitter at Bayh for spearheading fight against both Haynsworth and Carswell. . . . Also in bad odor back home, Sen. Charles Percy (R., Ill.) who has lost the support of influential Rockford (Ill.) Sunday Register-Sun, an early Percy backer. Register-Sun has withdrawn its support because of Percy’s failure to support Nixon Administration; suggests he switch parties.

■ Look for fewer antiwar demonstrations and riots in future. They’re out, according to various leftist sources. At New Mobe meeting in Atlanta all parties agreed not to take to the streets again. Said San Francisco delegate Louise Lovett, according to People’s World: “Mass demonstrations have outlived their usefulness at this time.” . . . At same meeting, Militant reports Prof. Douglas Dowd of Cornell went further: “Marches and rallies are no longer in order,” he said. “We must gum up the works. . . . We can shut down this country.” Dowd did not elaborate. … It was Sen. Carl Curtis (R., Neb.) who uncovered fact that a couple of New Mobeites (Sam Brown, David Hawk—lovely name that, for a dove) had sent out a peace appeal signed by them under Sen. Mark Hatfield’s franking privileges. Hatfield, when he heard it, coughed up the $2,-175 the mailing had cost. Now it’s revealed that a series of telegrams (450 of them) urging various peace groups to support Cooper-Church amendment signed by Sens. Hatfield, Goodell (R.), Cranston, McGovern and Hughes went, among other addressees, to Irving Sarnoff of Los Angeles Peace Action Council. Sarnoff, a sometime Communist (identified as such in HUAC testimony, April 3, 1959), refuses to say whether he is a Communist now, admits that his group works with the CP of Southern California. . . . Also in hot water: Evans and Novak on story they printed that David Keene, YAF National Chairman, had urged President Nixon to muzzle Spiro Agnew. Upon further investigation, Evans and Novak concluded their informant had been wrong, printed a gentlemanly retraction. . . . Rep. Bob Wilson (R., Cal.) asking why Committee of Liaison (with Hanoi) hasn’t been made to register as agent of a foreign government. The Committee, headed by Dave Dellinger and Mrs. Cora Weiss (of Women Strike for Peace), has acted as conduit for mail between American POWs and their families. Some wives of captured fliers are refusing to accept Committee-transmitted mail from their husbands on ground that strings attached—that they join in and propagandize for peace movement—are not acceptable.

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■ Voices of sanity: Democratic Majority leader Mike Mansfield was not at all surprised by the unceremonious firing of anti-Administration Education Commissioner Dr. James Allen. “I think the Commissioner has been sort of leading up to it,” Mansfield said. “He left the Administration no choice.” . . . Another prominent Democrat, Sen. William Proxmire, surprised commencement class at Milton College (Wis.) by praising Nixon: “The President is a decent and intelligent man. He is doing his honest best to end the Vietnam war as swiftly as he can.” Particularly valiant of Proxmire since he faces hard fight in the fall, needs all the help he can get from Big Moneybags on the Peacenik Left. . . . Still shattered, Sen. Birch Bayh at reception he got at Indianapolis 500. When Bayh was introduced he was loudly booed, the boos following his car as it made the circuit. . . . Home-staters reportedly bitter at Bayh for spearheading fight against both Haynsworth and Carswell. . . . Also in bad odor back home, Sen. Charles Percy (R., Ill.) who has lost the support of influential Rockford (Ill.) Sunday Register-Sun, an early Percy backer. Register-Sun has withdrawn its support because of Percy’s failure to support Nixon Administration; suggests he switch parties.

■ Look for fewer antiwar demonstrations and riots in future. They’re out, according to various leftist sources. At New Mobe meeting in Atlanta all parties agreed not to take to the streets again. Said San Francisco delegate Louise Lovett, according to People’s World: “Mass demonstrations have outlived their usefulness at this time.” . . . At same meeting, Militant reports Prof. Douglas Dowd of Cornell went further: “Marches and rallies are no longer in order,” he said. “We must gum up the works. . . . We can shut down this country.” Dowd did not elaborate. … It was Sen. Carl Curtis (R., Neb.) who uncovered fact that a couple of New Mobeites (Sam Brown, David Hawk—lovely name that, for a dove) had sent out a peace appeal signed by them under Sen. Mark Hatfield’s franking privileges. Hatfield, when he heard it, coughed up the $2,-175 the mailing had cost. Now it’s revealed that a series of telegrams (450 of them) urging various peace groups to support Cooper-Church amendment signed by Sens. Hatfield, Goodell (R.), Cranston, McGovern and Hughes went, among other addressees, to Irving Sarnoff of Los Angeles Peace Action Council. Sarnoff, a sometime Communist (identified as such in HUAC testimony, April 3, 1959), refuses to say whether he is a Communist now, admits that his group works with the CP of Southern California. . . . Also in hot water: Evans and Novak on story they printed that David Keene, YAF National Chairman, had urged President Nixon to muzzle Spiro Agnew. Upon further investigation, Evans and Novak concluded their informant had been wrong, printed a gentlemanly retraction. . . . Rep. Bob Wilson (R., Cal.) asking why Committee of Liaison (with Hanoi) hasn’t been made to register as agent of a foreign government. The Committee, headed by Dave Dellinger and Mrs. Cora Weiss (of Women Strike for Peace), has acted as conduit for mail between American POWs and their families. Some wives of captured fliers are refusing to accept Committee-transmitted mail from their husbands on ground that strings attached—that they join in and propagandize for peace movement—are not acceptable.