THE WEEK

national review endorses the candidacies of the following men and women for election to the U. S. Senate. Some we back with enthusiasm and gratitude. Others with reluctance, for one reason or another. We do not agree with every position taken by every one of them, but we believe that circumstances—whether their voting record, the platform on which they are running, or the local situation in the state in which they are competing for office—dictate a vote for them. In Connecticut, Suzanne Stevenson. In Delaware, John Williams. In Illinois, Everett Dirksen. In Indiana, Homer Capehart. In Iowa, Bourke Hickenlooper. In Kansas, Frank Carlson. In Maryland, John Butler. In New Hampshire, Norris Cotton. In Oregon, Douglas McKay. In South Dakota, Francis Case. In Texas, Thad Hutcheson. In Utah, Wallace Bennett.

There seems to be no doubt that most of the defendants in the first two Poznan trials were technically guilty of the crimes with which they were charged; and these crimes were serious enough to call, from a normal legal standpoint, for heavy punishment, indeed for the death penalty. The fact that one defendant was acquitted and the others given only mild sentences proves the strength of the counter-pressures that are, for the moment at least, straining Poland’s totalitarian regime. The Polish authorities are in a genuine dilemma. The present situation cannot be stabilized. They must either let “the thaw” go still further, with the risk of releasing still deeper opposition, or try to clamp down again in a new total freeze—a reversal that would lose all the domestic and international benefits of the de-Stalinization tactic.

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national review endorses the candidacies of the following men and women for election to the U. S. Senate. Some we back with enthusiasm and gratitude. Others with reluctance, for one reason or another. We do not agree with every position taken by every one of them, but we believe that circumstances—whether their voting record, the platform on which they are running, or the local situation in the state in which they are competing for office—dictate a vote for them. In Connecticut, Suzanne Stevenson. In Delaware, John Williams. In Illinois, Everett Dirksen. In Indiana, Homer Capehart. In Iowa, Bourke Hickenlooper. In Kansas, Frank Carlson. In Maryland, John Butler. In New Hampshire, Norris Cotton. In Oregon, Douglas McKay. In South Dakota, Francis Case. In Texas, Thad Hutcheson. In Utah, Wallace Bennett.

There seems to be no doubt that most of the defendants in the first two Poznan trials were technically guilty of the crimes with which they were charged; and these crimes were serious enough to call, from a normal legal standpoint, for heavy punishment, indeed for the death penalty. The fact that one defendant was acquitted and the others given only mild sentences proves the strength of the counter-pressures that are, for the moment at least, straining Poland’s totalitarian regime. The Polish authorities are in a genuine dilemma. The present situation cannot be stabilized. They must either let “the thaw” go still further, with the risk of releasing still deeper opposition, or try to clamp down again in a new total freeze—a reversal that would lose all the domestic and international benefits of the de-Stalinization tactic.