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Hold that tiger! “Asked if his opposition to East-West trade was thawing, Mr. Dirksen said, ‘I don’t know that I ever got frozen on East-West trade.’ On the consular treaty he said, ‘I have never said I was absolutely opposed to it. There have been several conferences on this and there will be several more. Then we will see where we are going.’” … “The Senate Republican leader told an informal news conference ‘the door is never closed’ to his possible support for a treaty the Johnson Administration contends represents a crucial effort to ease East-West tensions. Vice President Humphrey predicted in an interview last week that the Illinois Republican, after he had satisfied himself about its provisions, would ‘come around’ to supporting Senate ratification.”

The New Jersey GOP State Committee has now completed its vendetta against a group of New Jersey Young Republican leaders who called themselves “Rat Finks” and disported themselves as if they were a Herblock cartoon of Barry Goldwater. The senior party has taken over the YR organization – lock, stock and barrel. No YR meetings or elections can take place without senior approval. Election of delegates will be controlled from above. State and country GOP chieftains may repudiate any announcements from the YRs. Local chapters not cooperating will be dumped. Several hundred conservative young men and women in New Jersey have had their reputations and perhaps their careers unjustly tarnished. Conover Spencer, executive director of the Republican State Committee, says of them happily, “They’ve got nowhere to go.”

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Hold that tiger! “Asked if his opposition to East-West trade was thawing, Mr. Dirksen said, ‘I don’t know that I ever got frozen on East-West trade.’ On the consular treaty he said, ‘I have never said I was absolutely opposed to it. There have been several conferences on this and there will be several more. Then we will see where we are going.’” … “The Senate Republican leader told an informal news conference ‘the door is never closed’ to his possible support for a treaty the Johnson Administration contends represents a crucial effort to ease East-West tensions. Vice President Humphrey predicted in an interview last week that the Illinois Republican, after he had satisfied himself about its provisions, would ‘come around’ to supporting Senate ratification.”

The New Jersey GOP State Committee has now completed its vendetta against a group of New Jersey Young Republican leaders who called themselves “Rat Finks” and disported themselves as if they were a Herblock cartoon of Barry Goldwater. The senior party has taken over the YR organization – lock, stock and barrel. No YR meetings or elections can take place without senior approval. Election of delegates will be controlled from above. State and country GOP chieftains may repudiate any announcements from the YRs. Local chapters not cooperating will be dumped. Several hundred conservative young men and women in New Jersey have had their reputations and perhaps their careers unjustly tarnished. Conover Spencer, executive director of the Republican State Committee, says of them happily, “They’ve got nowhere to go.”