Pollster Sam Lubell (he spotted Lodge as a sleeper in New Hampshire) warns that “many staunch Democrats” will abandon Lyndon Johnson if Johnson goes along with admission of Red China to the UN. Lubbell’s figures (mid-March) indicate country is 60 per cent opposed to Peking’s entry. . . . Committee of One Million, which has carried the ball on this one all along, urging Congress to make its opinion known explicitly by adopting another joint resolution vs. Mao and Co. . . . German Chancellor Erhard, in veiled warning, says Bonn would have to go along if U.S. reverses itself and recognizes Red China. . . . As for China’s traveling medicine man, Chou En-lai, he says, in interview with Agence France Presse, that Communist China should get in because “[it] always will uphold the Charter of the United Nations.” . . . The same week, the exiled Dalai Lama reported the Chinese were using public torture as an instrument of terror against Tibetans who remain in a state of chronic revolt five years after the Chinese conquest.
Beaton—Toronto Telegram Ben Roth Agency




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