ADLAI FIRST TO ASK END OF TESTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200120154-6
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 154
• Content Type: NSPR

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Adlai First to Ask End of Testing
By Drew Pearson
MOST PEOPLE have for
gotten, but It was Adlai Ste-
venson, during the election
campaign of Ion, who first
demanded that the world stop
nuclear tenting because it was
contaminating the air with
,lsoiscn. ,
Today, everyone except the
Kremlin is in favor of the
ending of nuclear testing. But
five years ago, when Steven-
son was running an uphill
race against Mr. Eisenhower,
tai, Nixon poured cold water
on the Idea and accused Ste-
venson. of "catastrophic non-
sense. Mr. Eisenhower se-
cused Stevenson of making a
"theatrical .gesture." He im-
plied that Stevenson didn't
:Sow what he was talking
about.
llowever. Stevenson stuck
to his guns. He delivered a
full-dress speech Sept. 29,
1856, demanding that unclear
testing be stopped--if lea
would agree. Various Demaa-
4 ratio leaders begged Steven-
son to lay off. told him to
drop the subject-4t was le.
lug votes, killing his Chances
of election. Adlai. however.
persisted.
'Later, It developed that
etamce was
a
eo
e nits
- flaps ;
John Footer Duties in.a Cabs- for f
net meeting on Sept 4 had ire seems back . ' " r t
proposexl exactly the same Qdltln but Brash treallt _=etdgn. NA i .r
>t.
suspension of nuclear testing that he will run 4?% TV& womb >i IV as news
and that President ar tea in of (lallforWo... 1e days refer. ?Quadroe md-Eisenbow er had concurred. But after Nixon toad tr1 Ia b~ was dealt' bowed e
Stevenson made his speech, more Worried er Brad' -,, :60 at *r. the ,
'the Eisenhower Ad.mtplstrs- than Goa Bald, ~i~ gaol 8- 1-
t
no xn oe the reek
over the mid-Pacific, and on chance to Caw We
eyvly Comm United States.
Oct, Ct. S& the iinitrA A.r_
some of the biggest bombe ucu~ c r~azv, oaa patted : for
ever tested were exploded !mow and do- come time, to rive ~n a
!
as itht t Rus-
tinn reversed itself and, train- C x,,. g esatne.
all its guns on Stevenson, yix6Q`,r new
PLA is na behind 01 t ` be the United $tatas atosnlo
bocd
i`he Eisenhower Admint*- wrltts~A by himsolf f3J1 be
tra.tion continued testing W11- ,.., a+ -,., -.U- !1m7 and small, angoras.
Women and Rank Ater yst>~ , elm f for fled from any ,American aid
stirl t C% ^ri a under'the Aili:aaoe for Prop.
TUF LADY from Meinr wren en the rose. .
.'Vila spons,reti legislation nor Ural:1o0 n `e~~4a to C"Yriotrt. 196L sou srna1c
can tests were stopped. Three into ttl Commelt %Aawm i Japan la, ,a "c~ er
days later, the Soviet firers its meat, t S propps,~r de far daxnocriey elf. Latin
last test-until last week. 40 r: stilt'' coliehl!` life America. 8e 'etarr'.Ruek re-
.1 was two years and a lywas Lh4 ll vigsrIa elagan as a 9l-fledged
month after Stevenson', pro- ftni" HO 1 Cud'
posal. t~orn,m a Guiana ba dlsquall-
Next day, all further Amer. ii i 11 pat lK life w m g e hat fed ht'
i A
voice a rounds t then a force da proving MERC 1,uther fill- reported to Prig
equal to set d titre nedr _ that the 'el is
gin,. 44n:ie top rank of colonel times, the Lt~eW Meartorial.
had occasion recently to fa eddlttee, Hodges wants
waten proudly as her admirals- them to realize that eora-
Lrailvs assistant. Bill Lewis, a "m Is the bloodstream of
was a:" de a brigadier general. International u domtanding.
ranked his boss, Sen. Ty'adopteil the' idea and
garet Chase Smith tit). ] e has now mad t?~at all foreign
Air *'oroo--she is only a now ministers Ed,egoloomic mio-
t nt colonel-- ys he ban- g g , Include the Co'no-
died the situation in the SAM memo D`patt went in their
manner as Gen, Doolittle rid- ltinet`artes.
lag in, a Jeep with a WAV Seoeet Ho gee feels
ate that >U f foselpf economic
1?he car stopped The lady mlnirtrelei - have ' no idea of
treses. , ex film to dbviaus dls- the tee they could make of
re the COMM" Department
rs tc gee ni me," she I`m a said, " woman. you wread Information re-
re-
What hat,
, but to their countries ' in
can
do
What,
.-
answered the the United States and to
ap,
at t'
receive Information on
General' ' beauay always pre- American business.
cedast ramie." ,
Nl Go-Round Diplomatic Ch f?
FOBM1"'t Vice Prom- VICE PRESIDENT JOHN,
Wlsington the other day. the pc'pose of getting into
The red lines have vanished German politics, but his visit
from his face, which is now nonetheless has strengthened
more pink than tan ... News- the chances that Mayor Willy
wora&o were burned up when Brandt of West Berlin may
Nixon hold a luncheon in the becom. tit! . Dpw ; Ch*nc OIlor
Ids Club bar where no of West Gsmitny. Brandt is
womb ore admitted ... now given a fighting chance
`meson told friends that be to ,unseat. Chawoallor Ade-
wars going up to New Tort "to naaar.
saw p ' opie" about the Calf Director Allen Duly of
loruta governorship. The In. Oentrai j illgenoe this
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