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Show FARM ELECTION STRATEGY Democrats May Stand Pat on Farm Policy According to reports circulating around Washington, the administration adminis-tration is unlikely to change its farm policy in the face of the approaching ap-proaching presidential campaign. The strategy, observers are reporting, report-ing, will be to concentrate on the claim that a Republican victory in 1052 would endanger existing benefits bene-fits of the farm program, and sidetracking side-tracking any controversial issues that might arise. Democratic advisors point out that the plan worked well in 1944 and 1948. In 1949 the administration administra-tion pushed the Brannan plan which would hava made much greater use of federal subsidies to maintain agricultural prosperity. Nationaj farm organizations put up stiff resistance re-sistance to the plan and it failed to get approval of the congress. |
