Stassen Starts

The Stassen Presidential campaign began last week. Minnesota's able young Senator Joe Ball, speaking to the nation over CBS, outlined the four qualities a 1944 candidate must have. His points 1) a foreign policy of strong internationalism, a domestic program of full employment; 2) proved administrative ability to untangle the "mushrooming jungle of Federal Bureaus"; 3) leadership, instead of waiting "for public opinion to be developed by leaders and then go along with it"; 4) the capacity to get along with Congress.

Joe Ball insisted that he was not knocking Stassen's rivals. But Point 2 obviously thrust at Wendell Willkie, who has held no public office. And no one could miss the similarity of Point 3 to criticism of Tom Dewey. Joe Ball, adding his four points together, got Harold Stassen. From the South Seas, where Lieut. Commander Stassen is flag secretary to Admiral Bill Halsey, the waves brought no answer. The husky Minnesotan was as silent as a serviceman should be.

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