Beer, Bundy Swap Barbs

Two highly partisan professors hurled political barbs at each other's presidential candidate before an overflow audience of 350 in the Kirkland Junior Common Room last night. However, both Samuel H. Beer and McGeorge Bundy, associate professors of Government, agreed that foreign policy considerations were the vital issue in this campaign.

Eisenhower will have much difficulty in carrying out his foreign policy goals, Beer asserted, "unless he has a Democratic House and Senate." A Republican controlled Congress would be led by Taft and his followers, who think "foreign policy should be adjusted by expenditures" rather than vice versa, Beer said.

Pointing to the international record of the Vandenburg-led Republicans in the 80th Congress, Bundy said, "Anything Van could do, Ike can do better." He claimed that an opposition party, frustrated and long out of power, tends to lose irresponsibility and act constructively once it regains power.

Beer claimed the evils of McCarthyism would increase with a GOP victory. Bundy, however, countered that Eisenhower could control the Wisconsin senator more effectively than Stevenson.