Week of June 1, 1956

Campaign - President Eisenhower displays a touch of campaign fever as he tells

a national conference of Citizens for Eisenhower that he will campaign for a

second term “as cheerfully, as energetically, as enthusiastically, as

enthusiastically as it is possible for me to do.”

The Senate passes and sends to the House, a bill to allow the death penalty for

the peddling of heroin.

hero’s welcome and a handclasp from V.M. Molotov. Tito

declared the fates of Yugoslavia and Russia are inseparable

now that the “tragic” Stalin era split has been mended.

Mobs enraged by Prime Minister Nehru’s unyielding stand

against determining Bombay’s future along language lines

attack and injure several members of Nehru’s All-India

Congress party in Bombay.

Communist party Boss Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin as a mass murderer

who was plotting the complete liquidation of his old Politburo colleagues. Stalin

was accused of planning to wipe out former Foreign Minister Molotov and

Politburo member A.J. Mikoyan among others. Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953

was attributed to natural causes.

California primary - Adlai Stevenson is an easy winner. President Eisenhower

wins easily on the republican side and with no opposition.

possibility of war and this is why Russia decided to cut its

armed forces by 1,200,000 men.

Two more Dead Sea scrolls are deciphered and reveal clues to

legendary buried treasure worth countless millions instead of

dealing with Biblical subjects. The scrolls were found beside the

Dead Sea in 1952. If the treasure exists, it includes 200 tons of

gold and silver.

Alabama - A three-judge panel in federal court rules that racial segregation on

city buses in Montgomery violates the Federal Constitution. But the court took no

immediate action to issue an injunction against enforcement of city and State

segregation laws. That will come later.