Opening Round

At an Illinois Chamber of Commerce dinner in Chicago last week, the national chairmen of the Republican and Democratic Parties shared the same debating platform. Both men put in plugs for their personal preferences: New York Republican Leonard Hall pointedly praised "our great Vice President," Richard Nixon; Indiana Democrat Paul Butler quoted with approval from Adlai Stevenson's speeches.

Len Hall's theme was "prosperity with peace." He cried: "Nowhere in the world tonight, as I stand here with my friend Paul Butler, is there anywhere a soldier shooting a gun at an American boy."

Butler replied that Republicans were "doing a huckster job on peace," and quoted Republican Senator William Knowland on "peace without honor" in Korea. He accused the Administration of conducting a government "of big business, by big business, for big business."

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