• Fun City’s gendarmerie has covered itself with glory (subject to civilian review) for having penetrated to the inmost councils of the local Minutemen, where the plans (they say) were hatching for an assault on three or four left-wing “summer camps” in the metropolis hinterland. On D-Day the fuzz moved in, arrested nineteen suspected Minutemen, and copped untold tons of bazookas, tank radios, grenades, mortars, cudgels, powder, ammo, knives, brass knucks, and associated hardware. Whew! A close call for the Forces of Decency. Now abideth that which ith mightier than the sword. Put down that silly gatling. Praise the Lord and pass the ink.
• It is the China Hour at the UN once again, when the annual bid to admit Red China is submitted to the General Assembly. The Committee of One Million has checked in with its regular and effective proclamation against admission and against U.S. diplomatic recognition—signed by 51 senators and 283 representatives. Also on hand, in the kind of united front we love to see, are a group of Liberals taking the hard line, led by AFL-CIO whip George Meany, Senator Paul Douglas, Professors Frank Trager and Louis Hacker, and novelist James (Studs Lonigan) Farrell.
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