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The Fair Deal’s Three Wise Men—Stevenson, Acheson, Kennan—indict Republican foreign policy. And their attack discloses the slant of the forthcoming campaign.

Adlai Stevenson’s speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors is, for a number of reasons, a valuable piece of political intelligence. For one thing, it indicates that Stevenson is very hard up indeed for a headline. The proposal is reminiscent of Harold Stassen’s frantic attempt to get attention in the 1952 campaign by demanding a return to the gold standard.

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The Fair Deal’s Three Wise Men—Stevenson, Acheson, Kennan—indict Republican foreign policy. And their attack discloses the slant of the forthcoming campaign.

Adlai Stevenson’s speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors is, for a number of reasons, a valuable piece of political intelligence. For one thing, it indicates that Stevenson is very hard up indeed for a headline. The proposal is reminiscent of Harold Stassen’s frantic attempt to get attention in the 1952 campaign by demanding a return to the gold standard.