Pictures at Pawling

A little before noon, Governor Thomas E. Dewey stepped out on to the sunny front terrace of his white-columned farm house at Pawling, casting a gentleman farmer's eye on the thin clouds overhead. "I think it's going to rain," he said.

A few minutes later, Governor Earl Warren, his wife and their three daughters drove up in two official cars. "Greetings, glad to see you," said Tom Dewey. The wives kissed each other on the cheek. Tom Jr. and twelve-year-old Johnny Dewey shook hands self-consciously with the Warren girls--Virginia, 19, Dorothy, 17, and Nina, 14.

The two families posed for photographers on the steps, walking across the lawn, trooping down the drive. Assisted by Mrs. Warren, Frances Dewey dutifully snipped a sprig of roses from her garden ("I'm the good weeder type," she explained). The governors took off their coats, leaned on a fence, smiled for the cameras in front of the flagpole, by the barn.

No Advice. Under a Norway maple, Dewey talked to reporters while Warren nodded approvingly. Dewey thought the situation in Berlin was "grave," said he was keeping "in close touch" through his foreign adviser, John Foster Dulles. Whom did he think the Democrats would nominate? Dewey fixed the reporter with his brown eyes, smiled slowly, and said: "I never give advice to the opposition."

After lunch the governors discussed campaign strategy, agreed tentatively to spend the next two months planning and vacationing, begin campaigning in September. Then, sure enough, it rained.

Next day, Governor Warren got news that sent him rushing back to California by plane, leaving his family to follow by train. Burly, rock-jawed Lieut. Governor Goodwin Knight, 52, who would become governor if Warren is elected* had been suddenly hospitalized, was "seriously ill" with a perforated ulcer. A good-natured, back-slapping politico, Knight is averse to making any decisions in Warren's absence, even when he is well. The Governor thought he had better get back to his state.

Good Riddance? Tom Dewey drove back to Albany, where he received a temperate welcome from that Democratic stronghold. At the Capitol, he told 5,000 of the G.O.P. faithful: "I never thought I could learn to be so happy in any community where there are so many Democrats." He added: "I wouldn't like to think that any of them would think that a promotion was perhaps good riddance."

Closeting himself with Adviser Dulles, Dewey sat far into the night discussing foreign affairs. Next day, Dewey briskly separated the bipartisan meat from the partisan gristle. The bipartisan policy, said Dewey, applied only to participation in U.N. and ERP which, as enacted, "largely expressed the views of Republican leaders." But in other fields of foreign affairs, "there has been no consultation at all with the Republican leadership." These fields, said Dewey, included the Greek-Turkish policy, the Potsdam agreements, Palestine, and "the entire China policy, or lack of one." Foreign policy, he made clear, was going to be a major target in the campaign.

*Governor Dewey's successor would be Lieut. Governor Joseph Rhodes ("Holy Joe") Hanley, 72, a stocky, red-faced ex-lawyer, ex-preacher, ex-soldier, ex-jockey, and ex-Chautauqua lecturer. A longtime state legislator and onetime Senate majority leader, Hanley is a vigorous campaigner. He would be expected to follow Dewey's policies closely.

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