Evening star., 1950-07-22
The Political Mil
Political Front Squalls
Certain Despite War
COP. TO Issue White Paper
Blasting Foir-DeoI Diplomacy
By Gould Lincoln

however LIle war III Korea goes, Lhere
are squalls ahead on the political front
in the United States. To the Democrats it
appeared at first blush that the outbreak
Of hostilities would make victory at the
polls in the congressional elections next
November much easier for them. Repub-
lican politicos were visibly shaken by the
new turn of affairs.
Today, a month later, the political pic
ture is less clear. American voters, while
admitting freely in most instances that
President Truman acted wisely in taking
the lead for the United Nations to run
the North Korean Communists out of the
Republic of Korea, have had a rude Jolt.
Instead of lower taxes they are to have
higher taxes; instead of peace, they are
to have WARMTH CONSUMPTION of man
power and industry.
An election held in 1912, less than a
year after Pearl Harbor, resulted in a
Republican net gain of seats in the
Senate-bringing the total number of
Republicans in that body up to Sand
a Republican net gain of As in the House,
which placed Republican strength in that
body at 209 or just less than majority.
In that year, Republicans elected Sena-
tors in both Oklahoma and West yir-
ginia.
G. o. P. Plans White Paper.
The feeling in this country about the
war In 1912, and in support of the Roose-
velt administration after Japans attack,
was much stronger than is the feeling
about the Korean war today. All of which
will give the Democrats food for thought
in the coming weeks. Within few days
the Republicans in Congress will put out
a white paper of their own. In it, the
Republicans will state categorically the
mistakes of the Truman administration
and Of the Roosevelt administration
before tin the field of the foreign re-
lations of this country, particularly those
in the Far East. They will undertake to
place responsibility on these administra-
tions for the failure to bring about peace
instead of war. The Republicans intend.
at present at least, to make this failure
principal issue in the coming cam
paign. They will undertake to show that
the Democratic administrations were
outjockeyed again and again by the Rus
sian Communists under Stain, and that
they played into Stalin's hands.
In addition to the war issue, there re-
mains the issue of the Mccarthy charges
against the State Department. In a Wit
riolic and epithet-calling report, three
Democratic Senator's majority of a
subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Re-
lationS Committee-have undertaken to
smother both Senator Mccarthy and
that issue. The result, however, has been
to unite Republican Senators and other
Republicans as they have not been united
for weeks With Senators Ives of New
York, Lodge Of Massachusetts, and Smith
of New Jersey taking the floor in crit
icism of the Democratic report on SEN
ator Mccarthy, it is evident the COP
is closing ranks. This is just what the
Democrats had hoped would not happen.
Report Settled Nothing.
The Democratic report of the Senate
subcommittee has, as matter of fact,
settled nothing. 1t has brought counter
charges from Republicans all along the
COP line to the effect that the in
vestigation was neither thorough nor
conclusive. A lot of people, who in past
months believed that the subcommittee.
instead of investigating the Mccarthy
charges and following up the leads he
suggested. set out to "get" Senator Me-
Carthy, will go right ahead believing just
that.
The violence of the attack in the sub
committee report plus the violence OF
the attack on Senator Mccarthy by
Chairman Tydings and other Democrats
on the floor of the Senate, adds to the
suspicion that there is just as much DEM
ocratic politics involved in this contro-
versy as there is Republican politics.
Senator Mccarthy and his charges will
be in the campaign. And in several con-
tests for Senate seats, they may play
their part. For example. two of the Dem
ocratic Senators who signed the report,
Senators Tydings of Maryland and Nc
Mahon of Connecticut are both up for
reelection. Z"
The Democrats in Connecticut will
meet soon in convention to nominate
their candidates for Governor and two
Senate seats. The State organization.
dominated by Senator Mcmahon and
Governor Bowles, is prepared to renom-
mate both Messrs. BowleS and Mcmahon
and presumably Senator Benton, who
is serving under appointment by Gov
ernor Bowles. The Benton nomination,
however. is being challenged by Wilbur
Snow, Wesleyan professor and former
lieutenant governor.