National Trends

The Groggy Old Party

The prospects of conservatives capturing power in the Republican Party are brighter today than at any time since the late spring of 1952. Which is not to say they are bright: as long as Liberals dominate a Republican Adminstration and as long as they have first call on Eastern Big Money —the kind that figured so heavily in the nominations of Willkie, Dewey and Eisenhower—promising developments here and there on the fringes can only make things look less bad.