Democratic Group Meets; Republicans Ask for Unity

Over 150 local Democrats packed Kirkland House Junior Common Room last night to hear Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, Samuel P. Huntington, instructor in Government, and James O'Dea, state representative from Lowell, address this year's first meeting of the Harvard Young Democrats.

At the same time, in the other political camp, the Harvard Young Republican Club moved to strengthen its position by issuing a call for all Republicans to forget their pre-convention differences and join in the fight for a GOP victory.

Before endorsing the Kennedy-Dever slate in Massachusetts and signing up 75 of their 150 membership to canvass in the coming campaigns, the Democrats heard Professor Beer praise Stevenson for introducing a new type of liberalism into the party.

Huntington declared that "the Democratic Party cannot hope to win the elections of 1952 and 1956 on the issues of 1930 and 1936." He added, however, that the Stevenson nomination was a step toward the development of a positive appeal based on the "real issues"--foreign and defense policy.

In the GOP action, W. Parker Dwelley, Jr. '53, former president of the Taft Club at Harvard, called for "all former Taft Club members still at the University to follow the example of that great American, Robert A. Taft, by working for and actively supporting General Dwight D. Eisenhower."