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Evening star., 1946-11-04
A Healthy System

Perhaps the most interesting
aspect of tomorrow's election lies in
the test it will provide of the ability
of the Republican Party to come
back from political oblivion.
Back in 1886, when the great
Roosevelt landslide brought every
State except Maine and Vermont
into the Democratic column, there
were many who believed that the
Republicans were through as a
major party. The gloomy prophets
said that the combination of Mr..
Roosevelt's phenomenal vote-getting
powers, the organization of the big
city machines, the emergence Of
labor into politics and the swing to
the Democrats by the Negro voters
had relegated the Republican Party
to the status Of the dodo. After
Mr.. Roosevelt had sought and won
a third term there were some who
went so far as to predict that there
would never be another national
election in this country.
These Cassandras should be
doubly confounded by the outlook
for tomorrow's voting. Practically
all of the independent observers
believe that the Republicans will
carry the House. Many of them
concede the COP a fair chance to
win the Senate, although only one
third of the seats in that body are
at stake. And it surely is of more
than ordinary significance that
supporters of some of the Republican
candidates - men like Governor
Dewey in New York and John w.
Bricker in Ohio-are talking, not
in terms of victory, but of the size
of their candidates margin of
victory, and the effect Of this on
his presidential chances in 1948.
Admittedly this sort of thing is
bit premature, for much can happen
in the next. two years. 1t Is hardly
to be doubted, however, that
tomorrow's voting will show that the
Republicans are moving rapidly up
the comeback trail. A victory for
them in one or both branches of
Congress may be expected to hamper
the orderly conduct of the Govern
ment's business during the next
two years. But 1t will also demon
strate conclusively that ours is
vigorous and healthy political system.
Evening star., 1946-11-04
Fronco Spain Again

Franco Spain is up before the
United Nations again. the indica-
tions being that this contentious
issue may be as hotly debated in the
General Assembly as 1t was before
the Security Council last spring.
That debate ended in a deadlock,
America and Britain blocking the
effort of Soviet Russia and others
to get U. N. Intervention to over
throw Franco. The western powers
held that the Franco regime was
not a threat to the maintenance OF
international peace and security,
this conclusion having been arrived
at after careful investigation had
disclosed the weakness Of Franco
Spain.
Nevertheless, Secretary General
Trygve Lie did raise the issue again,
although he explained his action on
the ground that the Franco regime
is constant cause of mistrust and
disagreement between the founders
of the United Nations" And, through
the initiative of the Polish govern
ment, the issue has been assured a
hearing before the General Assem-
bly,, where the Soviet bloc can make
the most of 1t in debate and agita-
tion.
Since no evidence has been thus
far adduced that Franco Spain is
today any more or any less of a
threat to the maintenance of inter-
national peace and security than it
was last spring, the impending
debate before the Assembly seems
likely to be a re-threshing of old
straw. In opposing intervention,
America, Britain and other members
of U. N. are not defending the
Franco regime, per Sc. What they
object to is interference in the do
mestic affairs of nation, whether
or not a member of U. NJ, such in
reference being explicitly forbidden
by the Charter If the nation in ques-
ton is not an international threat.
Furthermore, it may well be deemed
harmful to the prestige OF U. N.
to single out one nation for
disciplinary action when other re-
gimes against which no such action
is even proposed conduct themselves
as reprehensibly as does Franco
Spain. Lastly, the danger of inter-
national repercussions Of a revolu-
tionary explosion in Spain provoked
by Intervention has by no means
abated.
The continued insistence of the
Soviet bloc for U. N. action against
Franco Spain logically suggests po-
ntical motives rather than consid-
erations of pure equity and world
stability. If such be the case, there
Is no reason why the western powers
should play Moscow's game.
Evening star., 1946-11-04
Prediction Forecast
By Raymond MoIey

NEW YORK, Nov. 3-The final week
of the campaign has shown an inten-
sified drive by Democrats In most
States. In some places this has been
due to a measurable revival OF con-
fldence in their chances. In others II
is due to last-diteh determinauon 70
try anything to ward on defeat.
There may be, here and there, some
overconfidence on the Republican saoe.
The trend in early October seemed, AT
first, too good to be true. Then II IN
spired a glow OF confidence. Whether
Republicans reached their peak too
soon remains to be seen. The trend
may be so pronounced that 1T can
suffer some stiffening in the oppositlon
and still carry everything before 1t.
A final check in decisive States
nrornpts some small changes IN the
figures suggested in an earlier article
which indicated 226 Republican House
seats It now seems as II the Repub-
licans will gain one more in Connecti-
cut. Kentucky, Minnesota, washington
and New York and two In Michigan.
They also will probably save their
first district seat in Colorado.
That brings the estimated number
Of House Republicans to 234.
There are a few spots where there
might be Republican losses and also
where earlier estimates Of gains may
have been too large. In Missouri, for
example, one Republican district Is now
doubtful.
Since a trend usually outruns the
best predictions, there must also be
considered q possible larger gain. Pure
speculation indicates that such drift
might easily carry 240 or $50 House
seats by Republican candidates.
In the Senate race, last-minute re-
check moves some previously doubtful
races into the more certain
column. over all, the Senate lineup
Evening star., 1946-11-04
Be Sure to Vote Tomorrow

Here are two important things
that Washingtonians will accom-
plish tomorrow in casting an over
vhelming vote for the right to vote:
1. They will make a colorful
demonstration to the rest OF the
Nation of their voteless status under
law. The telegraph wires and the
radio will carry the story to millions
of Americans of how voteless Wash
inptonians marched to the polls.
To an incredible number of Amer
leans it will be news that people
living in the Capital of the United
States are not permitted to vote.
And the interest and support OF
these Americans in the States is
necessary before we can persuade
Congress to give us the vote.
2. They will furnish a laundering
"yes" to the question so many
members of Congress always ask:
Do the people here really want to
vote? There are members OF Con-
gress who doubt that they do. It
may be that they only use this
doubt to rationalize their own
failure to support voting rights for
Washingtonians. But use 1t they do.
The Affirmative answer given at the
polls tomorrow will reduce that
excuse to an absurdity.
After the vote there are going to
be the usual number of cynical
criticisms of the manner In which
1t was conducted. There will be
hostile references to the clumsy
registration; the lack of proof that
voters were qualified to vote; the
absence of machinery for strict
accounting of all ballots cast. Such
things will be used to discredit, If
possible, the bona f1des Of the
plebiscite.
The Star hopes the criticism will
be expressed in Congress. For the
answer to that criticism is that If
Congress really doubts the integrity
of the vote cast tomorrow the,
remedy is for Congress to order an
official referendum, establish the
legal machinery, do its own phrasing
of the questions, get the results at
first hand. That might be, in any
event, desirable followup of
tomorrow's plebiscite.
Washington has a good govern
ment. But 1t can be made a much
better government by the participa-
ton of voting taxpayers in the
counsels of government. Our first
duty as Washingtonians tomorrow
is to vote. Our second will be to
make 1t count.
Evening star., 1946-11-04
This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

eign Minister was more adamant than
ever before.
Trieste and Danube are on the top Of
the foreign ministers agenda. The
meeting will provide the best oppor-
tunity for Mr. Molotov to show an aI,x-
ious world that the peaceful words OF
the Russian leaders do not represent an
empty gesture, intended, as some say,
to swing votes OF American citizens
away from the "reactionaries" seeking
election in Congress tomorrow. These
elections have been followed by the Rus
sian government with q much keener
interest than the presidential elections
Of 1914. The Russian propaganda ma
chine at home and abroad has been vio-
lent in It's denunciation OF all those
candidates, Republican or Democrat,
who are suspected by Moscow as op-
posing a policy Of appeasement abroad
and q drastic reshun1ing Of our eco
nonic and social system at home.
It is the first time that a foreign
power with which this country is main
tanning friendly relations has discarded
all international ethical considerations
and has openly participated in an elec-
toral campaign.
In the light Of this campaign, the
words Of Stain and his foreign minister
were considered in many responsible
quarters, including the State Depart
ment, as "equivocal' and as lip service.
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The meeting of the foreign secretaries
occurs only "a hours before the Ameri-
can people 90 to the polls. The real
arguments and debates over the peace
treaties will not start until the middle
Of the week.
Should Mr.. Molotov and his sble and
shrewd assistant. Ardrei Vishinsky, per-
sist in the attitude they adopted toward
Trieste and the Danube at Paris. the
entire peace structure which Is now be-
ing debated in New York will be jeo-
pardized
The secretaries Of state of the west
ern powers intend to approve, with
possible minor notifications, the blue
print which was drafted by the Peace
Conference in Paris and approved by an
overwhelming majority Of the 81 ma
tions which have fought the war against
the Axis. And 1t is highly unlikely that
any of these three foreign secretaries
will change his view. It is now up to
the Russian representative to translate
into deeds the encouraging words ex-
pressed by Prime Minister Stain and
himself.
Evening star., 1946-11-04
On the Record
By Dorothy Thomtson

great powers Of the earth. The basis Of
cooperation between the Soviet Union
and the other great powers is the as
sumption the Soviets will stay in that
area. This condition presumes a free
and independent Europe and a free and
independent China and India
Independence exists for countries when
they are able to deal with others on
equal terms. without favoring any spe-
cial one because Of fear. Without that
condition independence is a fiction. The
independence Of Finland, for instance,
Is fiction, and no amount Of state
ments to the contrary by Premier Stain
can turn the fiction into fact. So, for
that matter is the independence of
Panama fiction. Independence implies
capacity for self-defense and freedom
in foreign policy. Without these inde-
pendence does not exist.
The threat Of the atomic bomb to
Russia is a threat against Russian ex-
pansion. It Is not threat against the
Ukraine or against the great Russian
: complex; It Is threat against a Russian
Black Sea monopoly, a Russian Danu-
bian monopoly, Russian control Of the
entire Trieste area and, therefore, of
the great plain which lays Western
Europe wide open to the Slavic East. It
Is threat against Russian monopoly
Of the Middle East, China or India.
But 1t is not much Of 4 threat, even
at that, for, as the Russians know and
as Premier Stain has said, aviation,
with or without the atomic bomb, Is not
decisive against huge land power, oc-
cupying, as Russia does, the "heartland"
80 6,.x oefa haiA h.,
great military power In the entire
hemisphere.
The existence Of the United States Air
Force Is inconvenient to further Russian
expansion. Also ineonvenient Is the
failure of those Of Russias neighbors,
not openly subjected, to 60 Communist
and thus accomplish Russian aspira-
tions by political strategies, prepared
for q quarter of q century, without
bloodshed.
The Russian political strategy, pre-
Stunning Russian intent to expand, which
alone makes the strategy explicable,
must, therefore, be to mobilize world
and even American opinion to put the
United States in the role of a. potential
aggressor." Their strategy must be to
carry on an uninterrupted campaign
designed to strike from American hands
the only weapon against Russian ex-
pansion, while leaving the Soviet Union
complete freedom to use its own weap-
ons, its own geographical position and
its own political instruments within
other countries and within most other
governments.
This is what is going on and the aim
and tactics are exactly like those used
by Hitler, with the same remarkable
initial results.
(ReleAsed BY the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1946-11-04
The U. N. Budget

Speaking for the American dele
cation, Senator Vandenberg has
voiced a sound principle in object
ing to preliminary suggestions that
the United States pay approximately
SO per cent of the administrative
costs of the United Nations, as
against 105 for the United Kingdom
and 6 for Russia. The principle is
simply this: That no one country
should bear a preponderant financial
responsibility in the new world
organization, the reason being that
otherwise single power-with
special grip on the purse strings
would tend naturally to exercise
a dominant and perhaps unwise
influence on the size and character
of future U. N. budgets.
In making this point, Senator
Vandenberg has emphasized that
the American objection is not
founded on a narrow desire to save
money for the United States, though
that is a factor that cannot be
ignored entirely. We are concerned
primarily with organizing the fiscal
affairs of the u. N. on as healthy a
basis as possible, and our contention
is that such basis cannot be had
If one member nation Is to carry
half of the administrative expenses
or If the total burden is to fall on
Just two or three states. The danger
implicit in an arrangement of that
sort would be fairly obvious; under
1t, in Mr.. Vandenberg's words, "the
few, in sheer self-defense, would
probably insist upon special rights
of audit and control which are at
variance with the sovereign equal
ity' to which we are indispensably
devoted"
To illustrate the point that we are
not taking mere dollars and-cents
view of the proposed assessments,
Senator Vandenberg has made clear
that the United States is well aware
of its unique financial position in an
abnormal world. AS far as the op-
Grating expenses of the United Ma
tions are concerned, we are still
prepared to pay the lions share
wherever necessary, and we are will
ing, too, to assume as much as a
third of the administrative costs
until the international economic sit
uation grows more stable. Never
theless, we hold that the organiza-
tion should now fix it as permanent
policy that no member nation be
asked to contribute more than rs
per cent of the annual budget.
With that ceiling established, a
single power would be far less likely
to dominate fiscal decisions and thus
Evening star., 1946-11-04

looks like this: Starting with 81 GER
tain seats, Republicans will certainly
add one each in Wisconsin, Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Delaware. They will prob
ably win Massachusetts,, New York,
Kentucky, Missouri and Idaho. That
brings them to 46.
They seem to have a slight edge In
Washington and California. Montana
is extremely doubtful. West Virginia
depends on the course of John L.
Lewis battle with the Government
over COAL In Wyoming, Democratic
Senator O'Mahoney seems to be gaining.
And good observers believe that VIC
tory for Pat Hurley, the fighting Re-
publican in New Mexico, would be
somewhat surprising.
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This means that to gain the neces-
sary - seats, Republicans must win
as slight leaninss, and In addition one
would give them 50.
The present battle for both Senate
and House is conditioned by the fact
that even in 4 year when every break
has been with the Republicans. 1t is
not easy to gain the seats necessary
to decisive control.
Lines between Republican and Demo-
cratic territory are drawn more tightly
than ever before and Republicans
since 1898 have won back almost all
that they can expect to hold perma-
nently. The population is not distributed
as it was In the 1920's; there is more
class feeling now, and city machines
are more firmly entrenched.
The role of prophet In politics Is .
risky one. These guesses are JUSTIFIED
only on the ground that they are based
on the best on-the-spot opinions
available. They must be taken with
the caution appropriate to any final
Judgment Of the unmeasurable.
North American Newspaper Alliance.
Evening star., 1946-11-04

of creation. He saw life In terms
of rhythmic music.
Born In 1889. Mr.. Nevinson was
just twenty-one when he began to
exhibit. The Flanders campaigns Of
1914 and 1915 gave him materials
which he continued to exploit all
the rest OF his career. No artist
excelled him in his portrayal Of
armies-and Individual soldiers-as
machines, but there was more to
his achievement than robots and
gadgets. He hated war with an
experienced passion. Conceivably, it
was for that reason that he was
so meticulous a historian of it. He
wanted the horror remembered with
resentment, not merely because it
represented mass murder Of people
and wholesale destruction of the
garnered fruits of labor, but because
it regimented humanity and SCARED
the innocent earth.
So the music which Mr.. Nevinson
transcribed with pencil and brush
on paper and canvas was a deep,
profound, reverberating melody. 1t
rolled through his endeavors like
thunder over the waters surround
ing his beloved England. The
panorama of the beleaguered British
countryside as seen from a plane
which he executed for Winston
Churchill in 1912 and which now
hangs in the council room of the
Air Ministry symbolizes not only
his patriotism but also his spiritual
nature. He was an interpreter Of
hard, stern, bitter time, yet he
knew that it was an age which not
even wholesale fratricide and global
sabotage could rob of design, bank
rupt of cosmic harmony.
Mr.. Neyinson, 1t Is true, often
attempted to escape from the pat
tern of the epoch to which he
belonged. He tried experiments
which failed-much as his neighbors
did in their own respective ways
and with similar futility. But his
Illustrations did not hurt him too
much. He Is safe in the gallery of
the creative personalities of the Era
of Confusion which now at long
last may be closing through tardy
realization of the utter uselessness
Of further chaos.
Evening star., 1946-11-04

The Council of Foreign Ministers,
which is resuning its sessions today to
put the final touches on the recon-
mendations of the 81 nations which have
drafted the peace treaties with italy and
Germany's satellites, is expected to re-
main in session for at least q month.
The first two weeks are expected to be
devoted to the discussion of these
treaties. After November 10 the treaty
with Germany will be discussed and
drafted by the representatives OF the
Big -Four.
From the practical point of view, the
foreign ministers meeting Is considered
far more important than the debates Of
the U. N. General Assembly. Foreign
Minister Molotov will have a chance to
demonstrate whether the fine words ex-
pressed by his chief, Prime Minister
Stain, and by himself, when he arrived
in New York fortnight ago, were mere
window dressing or whether they meant
a change in the Soviet governments
attitude toward the peace problems OF
the world.
So far as"the foreign ministers OF the
United States. Great Britain and France
are concerned, they are entering this
momentous meeting with the intention
of confirming the majority Of recon-
mendations OF the Paris conferees. Mr..
Molotov placed himself on record during
the last session at the Luxembourg
Palace as opposing the solution Of the
Trieste problem because 1t was contrary
to the interests Of Yugoslavia. He init
mated then that he would also use his
veto power against the internationaliza- Is
ton of navigation on the Danube. Rus
sia and her subservient governments Of
the Danubian States intend to retain
exclusive control over that most impor-
tant water artery In Europe. The min
utes of the Paris debates on this matter
show that the Slavic bloc has not budged
one inch from this point Of view.
r
The meetings which are starting to-
day will show whether the Soviet For
eign Minister has received different in
structions from those he brought back to
Paris on the last day Of the conference.
The American delegates had hoped
that Mr.. Molotov, who had left the
French capital unexpectedly to go to
Moscow for four day meeting of the
Politbureau, would return with some
formula which might make 1t easier to
settle these two vital problems. But
they were disappointed. The Soviet For
Evening star., 1946-11-04
The Plantation

Still the great plantation holds the
chalice high,
The golden draught OF the splendid,
gracious thing,
And there still the nnturried foto Of
plentiful time
Winds through the denthless dream In
tranquil cornpdnioninD.
The tenceless meadows lie In green, huge
stpdrds,
Supererogating bedutys fats, and re.
strained
Only by the surrounding forests Dhtch
are BY
The shaping centuries to n,agnifcencs
ordained.
The spacious, stately mansion under.
meath the etns
Is a fabulous structure an honoTed
builder gaze
70 time to epttomize the magic OF an
age,
and to enshrine the gallant and tts
brape. EDWARD D. GARNER.
Evening star., 1946-11-04

affect political moves as well. This
makes excellent sense. indeed, 1t
may be taken as another answer to
reckless Russian charges that we
are dollar diplomats. We are
nothing OF the sort, and that is the
reason-along with the principle in
volved-why we do not want to hold
most of the purse OF the U. N.
Evening star., 1946-11-04
Letters to The Star
Venezuelan Election Results
Reported and Discussed

To the Editor Of The Star:
This Is to express to you my apprecia-
ton for the candid information you have
published in your important newspaper
about the elections for a Constituent
Assembly held in my country on october
n, and to furnish you with the follow
ing ofhcial data just received in this
Embassy:
Figures compiled UP to date on these
Venezuelan general elections indicate a
record Of over 1900, 900 voters. The per-
centage of abstentions seems to have
been very low, with 90 out of each 100
registered voters casting their ballots.
Out of total of 228, ,116 potential voters
in the Federal District 210.921 went to
the polls.
Partial tabulation gives the following
figures for the four major political
parties:
+. Democratic Action dhe party backing
the revolutionary government), $50, 900.
COPEI Organizing Committee Pro-
Independent Elections, conservative, /,
l7e,000.
Republican Democratic Union (cen-
teri, $1,000.
Communist Party, $4,000.
The political forces backing the revo-
lutionary government obtained a deci-
sive majority. OF the 16O seats of the
Constituent Assembly. 1873 appear to
have been won by Democratic Action
and allied groups; the conservative
party, COPEI, seems to have only 10
seats; while the Republican Democratic
Union (center) and the Communist
Party won only seats each.
According to Official figures published
by the newspaper Ell Nacional, out
of every 10 voters 7.23 favored Demo-
cratic Action. In the Federal District,
for example, 152,255 voters out of total
Of 2l0, ,921 favored the Government Party.
Venezuelan newspapers published
statements by foreign ambassadors
and ministers regarding the elections:
United States Ambassador Frank p.
Corrigan classed the elections as "the
most democratic held in Latin America;
Allan Davis Francis, Charge d'Affaires
of Great Britain, as "A great victory for
democracy"
lam glad to say that with these order
ly free elections held in my country. the
Venezuelan people have demonstrated
not only their full capacity to live in a
working democracy, but, as well, the
promising possibilities for all the peo-
Piles OF this continent If they had the
same opportunity.
NJ A. FALCON-BRICENO
Charge d'Affaires al. of Venezuela.