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Pentagon officials worried over sudden interest by Swiss banking fronts in U.S. railroads. It has been reported some anonymous Swiss bank depositors have joined forces with Cyrus Eaton to win control of certain rail lines crucial to the internal defense. . . . Eaton, incidentally, wrote spirited defense of Khrushchev’s angry UN speech in letters column of Newark Evening News. . . . Sign of the times: Two groups converged on the United Nations to make their demonstrations. One—the Assembly of Captive Nations, at which Senator Dodd was the speaker— was shunted five blocks away. The other, a Communist demonstration dominated by the Worker, was moved one block away. . . . Two New York radio writers fired for acting as co-sponsors of the Communist-line Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Behind Senator Kefauver’s surprising win in Tennessee: an all-out drive by the AFL-CIO COPE which made 60,000 phone calls, mailed 300,000 leaflets, distributed 160,000 leaflets and handbills. . . . Conservatives in Los Angeles heartened by decision of Mayor Norris Poulson (he tangled with Khrushchev last year) to run again. . . . Governor Faubus says Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas will definitely go for Kennedy this year, but admits Arkansas race will be close.

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