Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-17
Townsend Renamed
COPS Senatorial
Campaign Leader
M'Nory Louds DeIoworeon
For Purty's Coins in
Election This Yeor

By the Associated Press.
Former Senator John G. Town
send, jr., OF Delaware was reap
pointed today to the Craftsmanship
OF the Republican Senatorial Cam
paign Committee to serve through
the 1914 campaign.
Minority Leader McNary notified
the 7l-year-old former legislator of
the appointment in a letter which
said:
Your splendid services as chair
man OF the National Republican
Senatorial Committee are sincerely
appreciated by the members of the
United States Senate and the Re-
publicans throughout the country.
Your management OF the CAM
paign which resulted in the election
OF nine additional Republican mem
bers to the Senate was noteworthy
and demands further employment
OF your talents.
AT this time and in this fashion
I appoint you chairman of the Ma
tfonal Republican Senatorial Com
mlttee from now until a time sea-
sonably following the fall elections
in 1914"
Peacemaker" at st. Louis,
Mr.. Townsend, one of the peace
makers In the recent intra party
scrap at st. Louis which eliminated
In the compromise selection of Har-
rison E. Spangler of Iowa as Re-
publican national chairman, believes
the COP has a good chance" to
gain control Of the Senate in 1914.
In the Senate converting January
8 the Republicans will have 80 seats
against 20 now, the Democrats 81
and Progressives one. The minority
party would have to pick up 10 new
seats in the 1914 elections to win
control, as that would give them 48
seats, against At for the Democrats,
and one Progressive.
Mr.. Townsend and his associates
base their hopes on the fact that
Of the 80 Senators to be elected two
years from now 81 will be for seats
now held by Democrats, including
only seven from the solid South"
and II will be for seats of Republic
can incumbents.
House to Act Later.
The House Republican Campaign
Committee, now headed by Repre-
sentative Otter of Pennsylvania,
will not pick Its 1914 campaign
chairman until the middle OF
January.
Meanwhile, the new foreign policy
spokesman for the strengthened
House Republican membership,
Representative Eaton of New Jersey,
reiterated today his belief that iso-
lationism is a thing of the past.
The white-haired 74-year -old Re-
publican became ranking minority !
member of the House Foreign At |
fairs Committee when Representa-
tive Fish of New York stepped down
this week to devote his full time to
the Rules Committee. Mr.. Fish had
been one of Capitol Hills most
ardent n-interventionists before
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Eaton Gives Views.
IT adhere today to the same be-
lief / expressed in a book Il years
ago, that no country or civilization
is any longer Isolated" Mr.. Eaton
said in an interview.
I'VE must take off the binders"
The former Baptist minister
summed up his foreign policy views
with this comment:
THE sea no longer divides, but
rather units, all lands. No move
ment of any kind, social, political or
economic, can take form in any
quarter Of the globe without becom-
ing Immediately the common pos
session Of, and affecting for good or
Ill, the common consciousness of
mankind. Unless we learn to think
in world terms, we cannot think our
problems through at all"