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1948 Long Way Off, but Taft Looms as GOP Hope By BAUKHAGE Nom? Analyst and Commentator. WNC Service. 1616 Eye Street. N.W., Washington, D. C. Along about June o( any election year, when a lot of simple souls are minting anout moonlight and roses, electric fans, and where to go for a sum mer vacation, a lot of longar range planners are wondering about next win ter's -coal supply, harvest time, and many other things a lot fur ther away than the fly on your nose. Among these are the poli tician!. It's a great time to lean back in a chair in the Senate office building or thereabouts, open another bottle of White Rock, light another see gar, and burble on about what's go ing to happen come November, and, still more intriguing, to prognosti cate on presidential possibilities. It's fun for the newcomers be cause it's so easy for them to pre dict, in the light of what's happen ing right now, just what will happen then. It's still more fun for the old timers because they know that the voters who may not love you in the autumn often seem very palsy in the spring?and vice versa. Since there isn't much use in spec ulating on who the Democratic pres idential nominee will be, it's more interesting to talk about Republican possibilities. Perhaps that is why, along about the middle of May, the heavy back ers of Bob Taft began to be heard from. Up until then, most of the talk in the couloirs was how Bricker was the No. 1 boy, and how Stassen mustn't even be mentioned above a whisper. Even Stassen's own men decided it was better for the young man from Minnesota to keep his head down so he wouldn't attract any lightning until he had found out whether his forums were more po tent than the against-em's. Now H's getting to be more serious fan to talk about Taft. Taft wants to be President. He has wanted to be President be fore. He Is pretty much mas ter ef the Republican organisa tion, but even if he weren't. Brisker, his present friend and rival, is more "beatable." de spite the good impression be made on his speaking tour be fore the last convention . . . what with the leftist look in so jnuT veterans' eyei. Jw Bricxer has a staunch and solid conservative following. But it is a little too solidly conservative. Taft could hardly be called a radical. In fact, his political garden has never produced even a pale and lonely pink. On the other hand, his sup porters prudently can point to many a constructively liberal measure which has had his blessing. Only the other day, I was talking with an ardent administration of ficial who has been battling for a measure badly battered by conserv atives of both political stripes. I asked him if he could expect to re trieve in the senate a certain pro Vision in his legislation, lost in the bouse. "Oh, yes," he answered. "Bob Taft will go along on that." And Taft has a good liberal rec ord on such mass-appeal measures as housing. The Republicans don't have to deal with the old-line basses to the extent that the Demo crats do and in two of the larger cities where the Republican machine Is vital?Philadelphia and Cincinnati ? everything would be Jake so far as Taft is concerned. Be, himself, is kingpin In his heaae stats organ isation , . . and Mr. Pew, who makes the Republican wheels go round In Pennsylvania, want ad Taft in to and '44. It Is to be presumed he'll feel the same la 'U. This doesn't eliminate other bril liant possibilities, including Messrs. SUsseti and Vandenberg, both of whose political futures may be molded by international develop ments. Mr. Vandenberg baa done n lot of the molding himself. This could work both ways. On the one hand, the energy and devotion with which Mr. Vandenberg haa applied him self to foreign affairs, and the pow erful influence he has exerted, have , greatly Increased his silhouette on the international horizon. On the other hand, theae activities, both in quantity and quality, have takeD him far afield from the usual polit ical approach to a Republican presi dential nomination. It may be there is a niche in the making that would need a man of hisj>roportion to fill but one Demo crat said to me the other day: "Sometimes it looks as if Van would rather be right than President." Times change, almost kaleidoscop ically, these days. The presidential candidate of tomorrow may turn out to be (if you'll excuse my Irish) a dark horse of an entirely different color. ? ? ? Columnist* Speak Out of (in?) Tarn The carping critics of today and yesterday enjoy decrying the vari ous inroads upon our founding fa thers' ideas of government by the people. We hear much about "govern ment by lobbies"; "government by executive order"; "government by this and by that . . ." President Roosevelt used to in veigh against what might have been called an attempt at "government by columnists." It always seemed rather unnecessary on his part? since he used to be elected regu larly with a press 80 per cent hos tile. Recently President Tram an was called upon to comment on the work of the distinguished columnist, Walter Lippmann. Lippmann expounded the some what startling theme?with even more startling trimming*?that Britain and Russia were pursu ing a foreign policy based on the possibility, if not the prob ability of war, with each side hoping to enlist eventual Ger man support. In fact, Mr. Lippmann even discov ered an invisible German army in the British zone. (I don't mean that literally, for I understand that he rliH nnt trisil tho Dritiuk onno in kia tour of investigation.) The President's comment was that hindsight was better than fore sight, but as far as a hidden army was concerned, he never heard of it . . . and didn't think it existed. The same day, Mr. Truman was asked to comment on the statement of another distinguished correspond ent, Harold Callender, Paris cor respondent for the New York Times. Mr. Callender had reported a sharp reversal of AmericaQ foreign pol: Icy toward Russia. The President slapped that down, too, saying that he ltnew of no change . . and he mgde the policy. Some days before, Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state, now a radio commentator, made ob servations similar to those of Cal lender. Recently Harold Ickes, another former civil servant turned colum nist, declared that the careful news paper reader could get more author itative information than the secre tary of state possessed, because the secretary's information was screened by a reactionary and in efficient aide. Just how much influence the In dividual writer or commentator wields is a question. In most cases, it takes an almost unanimous repe tition of an idea to produce action. And then Its effect on the govern ment is usually indirect. It results from the pressure of public opinion, which in many cases Is created by press and radio, when the many men of many minds and political faiths can agree on some one subject. When the majority agree it usually means that they are as nearly right as mortals can be in these confus ing days. la the ease of Walter Upp mann. I believe that he is veto ing what aeaay of es who have fallowed recently International gatherings and whe have been la Earepe since the war, agree open: namely, that the states men of the major European powers have faOou late the eld pattern . . . basing their diplo macy en the thesis that war Is more or lose inevitable, instead of the new pattern where the objective Is to prevent war rath er than prepare for it. Another theme of Llppmann's which is not held by him alone, to which this arrlter certainly agrees, is that the problem of the proper handling of Germany is the most Important foreign problem, and the one upon which all the other prob lems depend. BARBS ? ? ? by Baukhag? The average age of the American population haa been increasing since colonial times, says the Met ? -Its S- - I t . - ???.J . , V * ropoutan inioirnauon ktvicc. jusi what la your average age, today? see Army regulations have made man magajdML^The prices they have to fSka" flwwmwiie2*I,,n The coal strike *u lika ? steady stream of sand filtering into the complicated machinery of our econ omy . . . grinding down the gears, burning out the bearings, changing the chorus of conversion to a ca cophony of shrieking brakes. ? ? ? ?MJ ??as ilii A ? * - - * ? * jrooQ - fictuj American! mcmn remember that breadlines are arorse JAPAN'S WOMEN NOW POLICE TOKYO ... Not only have the women of Japan been riven the right to vote, and many elected to ofBee, under the American army occupation, but they have been placed on the police and other civic department* of government. Photo show* one of the female police force patrolling the itreeta of Tokyo along the market place in the Konda diitriet of Japan's eapltoL TWELVE BABY FINGERS AND TWELVE BABY TOES . . . When Mrs. Jeanne Dui, 2t, pUys "this little piggy" with her three-monthfrwM sen, Michael, ihe hat to Bgare on a few extra porkers. Michael, bora March 1*, is shown here in two poses in which his mother displays his six Sneers on each hand, and six toes en each foot. Physicians in Chicago, where the child lives, are nnable to recall similar babies in their experiences. The baby is reported normal in every other way. PRESIDENT NOW A PHOTOGRAPHER . . . 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Perhaps because the navy is suf fering from admiralitis (too many admirals), Forrestal has set up a special duplicating public relations co-ordinator. This bureau does ex actly what another bureau also does. Chief difference between them is that one is on the first floor (deck in the navy), the other on the third floor) one is commanded by a vice admiral, the other by a rear admiral; finally, the rear ad miral takes a few hours to do a job while the vice admiral sometimes takes a few days. Hitherto, navy public relations have been handled by efficient young Rear Adm. "Min" Miller, one of the up-and-coming youngsters in the navy. If you need a speaker for a naval rally, want to stage an air show, or have a ship visit your city, Miller usually has been able to arrange it in a few hours. Bat now, Vice Adm. Arthur 8. Carpender, newly appointed co ordinator of public relations, sits in naval splendor with a staff of live senior officers, a Urge foree of junior officers, and a small army of WAVES and enlisted men. ? ? ? THE BALKY SWISS Insiders say that Switzerland, the little nation which posed as the be nign and friendly neutral, is now displaying the same tactics as the Capone gang in hanging on to Nazi loot. The secret negotiations now going on in Washington to recover Nazi gold from Switzerland have been carefully guarded, but it has leaked out that Switzerland's policy is to keep all the gold which the Germans stole from France, Denmark, Bel gium and other occupied countries and sent to Switzerland for safe keeping. Like the Capone gang, the Swiss won't return this looted gold to Franee, Denmark, Bel gium and other countries from which it was stolen. Despite all this, some treasury of ficials urge a lenient policy toward the Swiss. It happens that they have $1,500,000,000 of assets now frozen in this country including $500,000,000 in gold, and the French are preparing to clap a lien on these assets. Some treasury officials, however, are opposed. Not so, however, sage Secre tary of the Treasury Fred Vin son, who remembers all the Swiss collaboration with the -Nazis during the war. "Down in my state," drawled the KentueUan, "when yon bet on the wrong horse, you pay off. The Swiss bet on the wrong horse." ? ? ? VETERANS COME SECOND Young GOP Rep. James G. Ful ton of Pennsylvania, a Pacific war vet., did some vigorous protesting about the way veterans are being "stood up" on surplus war goods when he called at the White House. ?vo4omw. .m * V>V1 MU *16 just B?? |C?>llt? an even break in the present setup," be told the President. The Pennsylvania congressman also gave Truman some inside slants on RFC purchases of aban doned property which would war rant congressional scrutiny. He re ported that no effort is being made to sell army and navy equipment piled helter-skelter in and around a Pennsylvania glue factory pur chased by the RFC in Hay, 1945, for use as a surplus property depot. ? ? ? RED ARMY WITHDRAW8 The inscrutable Russians have a way of refusing to do something when asked, and then going ahead and doing it when not asked. For instance. Secretary of State James Byrnes has been hammering at the Russians to reduce their troops in the Balkans, Austria and Hungary. Among other things he has warned that the United States won't send food into these countries while tre mendous Russian armies are living off the land, in effect taking away the food we send in. Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, however, has turned a deaf ear to Byrnes' plea. He has been just as stubborn on this as about most things. But here Is the payoff. U. 8. representatives In Vienna have wired the state department that the Red army has started a large scale withdrawal from Aastria. 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