Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-23
Political Trend Points
Return 10 Conservatism
Wallace Jones Fight Indicates Movement in
Congress-; Regular Democrats Vie
With 'Leftists' in Party.
COP Stays
To Right
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne,ps analyst and Commentator.

0OF StdyS
To Right
There was a significant develop
ment at the Republican committee
meeting, too. The single challenge
to Mr.. Brownell dealt with the ques-
ton of thunder from the left and it
apparently fell on entirely deaf
ears. The one unfriendly voice at the
meeting came from supporter of
Harold Stassen of Minnesota, the
prospective liberal candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination.
The revolter arose to charge that
Mr.. Brownell had alienated the
labor vote because of his connection
with law firm which handled the
business of large corporations. NO.
body in the committee denied the
soft impeachment publicly.
1t is whispered that the Republi-
cans are not worrying about an ap-
peal to labor for they have a theory
that they can attract the vote of the
returned soldier because they say
he will lean to the right. This is the
way one of the regulars" expressed
it to me.
There is something about a uni
form," he said, that makes a man
patriotic and conservative. He is
anxious to settle down and raise a
family. He wants to have property
of his own. He's tired of being
housed and fed and clothed on gov
eminent issue. Also he is through
taking chances; over there he
thought Of America as home and
home means something solid, sane
and safe. The Republican party is
the natural place for him." the big
wig concluded.
am not saying that the reason
ing of either party is correct but I
am reporting what appears to be
the general atmosphere both on
Capitol hill and elsewhere where
the politicians gather to null over
affairs.
AS to the temper of congress as
whole as illustrated in both the
Wallace and the national service
controversies we can see that the
former southern Democrat-Republi-
can coalition is working as smoothly
as ever and keen observers predict
that its hand will be shown when
ever similar questions are at issue
in the future.
Just where the President stands is
not yet discernible. But there
again, there is a strong feeling on
Capitol hill that when he replaced
"Dr. New Deal" with CDR. Win-the-
War;" as he himself put it, he had
no intention of placing the country
under the care of the former medico
when peace returned. This is the way
one old timer who has supported the
administration on most issues for
the last IL years put it to me:
"The President says he is still
steering little left of center. He
may think so. But I can tell you
that whether he knows it or not the
old ship of state is going to nose
to starboard this session."
And that would seem to be what is
happening if we judge from the first
leg of the voyage. In any case there
is going to be fight to keep con-
sentative hand on the old ships
tiller.
SHANGRI-LA IN PACIFIC
The army air force has discovered
new nation, a tiny little COM
munity, high up in the mountains OF
New Guinea. No white man is
known to have visited it before, and
not even neighboring natives had
been there. Surrounded on two sides
by mountains rising to the height
of is or l6 thousand feet, the third
side by an impossible swamp, the
valley is cut off on the fourth side
by jungle-like forest several miles
wide. The river runs through the
valley. which is about by 20 miles,
and then disappears, apparently
into the earth. The lost tribe living
in the valley has developed an ex-
tensive irrigation system, army OBJ
servers report. At first they we're
frightened by planes now they
wave at our airmen, who come quite
low and are able to report that the
native clothing consists entirely of
strings of beads worn around the
neck.
Because the land is so extensively
cultivated, there is no large stretch
suitable for landing, and the air
force has enough to do these days
to prevent it from landing troops
by parachutes. But ethnologists and
other scientists will make a bee
| line for New Guinea as soon as the
war is over.