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! GOP Leaders Intrigue Press With Election Prospects By BAUKHAGE ,\?rt Analyst tuid Commentator. WNU Service, 1C1? Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C. ? Thil weather?in Washington and else where?develops more heat than light. That's a trite phrase, I know, uui ? m mpi ujwa because heat, rather than light, is always the keyword at this season, politi cally speaking. Congress accom plished its fade out rather grace fully, 1 thought, even if they must have prayed for forgiveness for "the things we have left undone" as fervently as ior uie uungs tney aia wmcn man i sit too well with their consciences. And now the voice of the vote getter is hesrd in the land. Radio and newspaper correspond ents arc being courted by both political parties. For example, re cently, a crowd of radio folk was given a luncheon-table look at the vote-getting machinery behind the Republican lines. Our hosts were Republican Chairman Carroll B. Reece at one end of the table, and Republican Campaign Manager Clarence Brown at the other. (A similar jaunt into Democratic terri tory will be reported in a future column.) Reece Quiet, Popular Chief Reece is a slight, greying, quiet voiced man whose Tennessee ac cent reminds one occasionally of Claude Pepper in one of Claude's unoratorical moments if you can , catch him in one. (Personal confes sion: I like Pepper and Reece both and so do a lot of people who would be the first to say, "the views of these notables do not NECES SARILY agree with those of the undersigned.") It is a little presumptuous of me to refer to Reece as "greying" be cause the year 1866 had to stretch itself from January to December to All the time-gap between my birth day and his. He has taught in almost as many academic Institutions as I have casually attended. He was a battalion commander in World War I whereas I never rose above the exalted station of shavetail, and among his Ave decorations are the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal and the Purple Heart. He was cited for bravery by a marshal, three gen erals and a colonel. Perhaps the same qualities which woA Reece his decorations qualified him tor his present job. He cer tainly doesn't lack assurance even if he doesn't rattle sabers in ex pressing it. But we are not talking about Reece. We are talking about his job. He is out on the hustings, al though his trip, which will take him as far west as Seattle and as far south as Georgia, is mildly camou Aaged as a vacation. Anyhow Mrs. and Miss Reece are going along, and a part of the time will be spent at a resort in the Rockies. Backstopping Reece here in the capital where nobody votes, but where a lot of writers and talkers remain, will be Clarence Browa, representative from the seventh dis trict of Ohio, a state which might be called a latter-day mother of presidents and which right now la looking hopefully over the patterns of maternity gowns. Brown and Reece complement ? each otber very well Reece is alight, dignified, soft-spoken. Brown lg large, loud enough to be heard in the back row without using the .PA system, and hail-fellow.well met. As "campaign manager" he is going to sweat it out (that is lit eral ) with the rest of the Washbig tonians who don't vacate in the summer. I have a fellow feeling for Rep resentative Brown, tinged perhaps ?with the natural deference a re porter always has (or a publisher. Brown publishes several country newspapers (that's the way he put it himself in the congressional di rectory) whereas I merely write for "several" besides this one. Also he has three more children than I have. He and I once met on the debating platform, and while I would naturally never admit that 1 didn't present the best argument, 1 will concede somewhat grudging ly that Brown's resounding oratory .-won him the most applause. We were debating selective service, and 1 hasten to explain that former Senator (now Supreme court Just ice) Burton and I had the unpopu lar side. Anyhow, Brown (may-the brst-man-win) won. Reece and Brown didn't talk on the-record at the luncheon but I have a good idea of how things looked to the Republicans at that congenial gathering of radio folk. If the elections were held as of that moment, they claimed, the Re publicans would win a majority of seats in the house of representatives and would make very heavy inroads on the Democratic majority in the senate. Since then many of the pri mary battles have been fought and I'll report the reactions later. Gallup Poll Hmart em GOP In the first place I understand that the Republicans took considerable satisfaction in the Gallup poll which showed that, excluding the one party Democratic states, M per cent of the persons interviewed showed a Democratic preference and M per cent a Republican pref erence. The GOP leaders believed they had a good, fighting chance to win 15 to 17 senatorial seats from their opponents. In New York, they say Governor Dewey's good record and the campaign he is planning ought to pull in a Republican senator (they won't say whom). They be lieve Democratic Senator Mead will have to run or the governorship. They felt they had a chance in Delaware and West Virginia and that if the ballots were cast at that moment they would win in Mis I Carroll B. Recce and Rep. Brown souri (I'm still talking about the senatorial race). They called Mon tana and Washington probabilities rather than mere possibilities. O'Mahoney knows he has a fight, they say, and they believe the Re publican candidate, John Hender son, has a chance against the popu lar gentleman from Wyoming. I heard a lot of talk, too, about the interesting possibility in Con necticut where Repr. Clare Luce was expected to oppose former OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, which would be a colorful affair with all the technical skill of her publisher husband, and all the skill of an advertising man, Mr. Bowles, pitted against each other. As to the house of representatives. Republican machinery has been grinding in at least 75 districts. Or Kmtack Bloody Battleground Kentucky was catalogued as still a dark and bloody battleground. At the time of the luncheon. Repre sentative May's followers seemed to feel, according to press reports, that he was a martyr. If something should come out to change their minds on that score, he might go down to defeat And we are re minded that, as one Republican put It: "every 20 years or so Ken tucky changes its mind." Other debatable districts were listed in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Del aware, Maryland, West Virginia and New York. What the Republicans seem to count on most is the natural re action, the "throw the rascals out" theory which Americans always have reverted to after so long a pe riod of any party's incumbency. In addition, say the GO Pundits, there are the usual mistakes of the party in power which result in the well known attitude of one of Clar ence Brown's constituents who told him: "I don't know who I'm FUR, but I know durned well who I'm AGIN." The Republicans think they have discovered a trend away from cen tralized government which may tum the voters against the admin istration and into Republican pas tures. H ' | BARBS ... by Baukhagt | Concerning those navy arm-clings sold by the war aasets administra tion as diapers?it seems a 17-inch square at cloth is Just that, no mat ter how you drape it. ? ? a The Paris conference seems to be taking a leaf?and a mouldy one tfenal' tMr tt'i said that President Truman has some WISE advice oo the Pal estine situation. ? ? ? A friend of mine loves to hunt old epitaphs in neglected ceme teries. Lately his activities have been curtailed by discovering an al lergy in a country churchyard. It may have been poison ivy. Not all cat-astrophes are gray. PAPER, NOT RICE . . . Hearing that an estimated 1,557,Mb pounds of rice are wasted annually by well wishers at American weddings, Fred Boggio and his pretty bride, the former Bridget Marand, requested that none of the precious grain be thrown at their ceremony. The couple is being showered with confetti as they emerge from Our Lady of Mount Carmel church in New York City. J ONE-ARMED BANDITS ... and all sort* of other rambling, Including roulette, dice, cards and an np-to-the mlnnte race results board will Boorish on the casino, "Lux," a ship which will be anchored six miles off shore at Long Beach, Calif. The idea of staging oat In the ocean Is to evade federal and state laws prohibit ing gambling. Attorneys for Tony Cornero, owner and operator of the Lnx, believe that he will be untouchable out in the deep. Speedboats will taxi patrons back and forth every live minutes. fcl AUJWAIIUH!Jlto Hwn ~ ' ??????????>?* W i IWIWUlItt* | ngg PAMILY UttMn FAMILY ^ KAH/n BONDS FOB BABIE8 . . . In in effort to eneoorate parenthood, the British government now is pa fine mothers Ave shillings (abort a dol lar In American meoey) per week Urine allowance tor every baby after the flrst. Payment is authorised by family allowance act of May, IMS. System went into effect An*. (, IMS. WE WANT OCR BALL . . . Neighborhood boys picket the bene ol resident of Giendale, Calif., claim lag that he refnses to retarn a base ball they hnorkod tola Us paid. The psepeitp owner saps ha kept the ball after a stem at a Rower was broken to Us paid. Two police of ficers were aw hand, trying desperately to teak grim sad to too sis MtoQIih sited was "poaoafnL'^ Wo anthrsak at Ttelanea had boaa re VEST-POCKET HERCULES . . . ! Anthony Mnir, 3, ton of a former Melbourne, Australia, wrestling champion, weighs In at 49 pounds In his training program for the 19M heavyweight title. No tweets are permitted in his program of training- Anthony it given a daily training schedule with muscle building equipment designed for WOUNDED VETS FISH . . . With ?Beers actlac as bait bays, ?"? 11 * reteraas, an wheelchair petleata, eajoyed tsbiat at ITrisa I**? ^arapletW set. to a IT'S SAME CROWD AGAIN PARIS. - It's hot in the galleries of the palace of Luxembourg. In the top gallery sit hundreds of news men ? Chinese, Siamese, Greek, In dian, New Zealanders, watching a man speak far below. Newsmen from all over the world watching the peace. It's their peace. What's done here will affect their countries from Baluchistan to Iceland, from Saskatchewan to Samoa, and they are watching. Far below, under the klieg lights, sits Jimmy Byrnes ? patient, polite Jimmy Byrnes ? never leaving his seat, never failing to listen. ... A man speaks into the microphone. He's interpreting Molotov ... in French. Another man speaks. He's interpreting Molotov in English. . . . It takes hours. When, you wonder, will diplomacy ever become mod ernized? Diplomacy hasn't been changed since 1815. . . . The Vienna conference when the great powers divided up Europe and brought on more wars. Paris today is depressingly the same. We invent modern methods of warfare. . . . Rock ets that may reach the moon, J* ' lk.l .ink n?. aiumic uvuiua uui? ? vies, germs that can destroy civilizations. . . . But the weap ons of peace never keep pace with the weapons of war . . . nor do the diplomats who wield the weapons of peace. The same crowd which failed to head off the last war is here again ?even some of the same crowd which sat in at the last Paris peace conference. . . . Look at their faces. Poker faces. No life, no lift, no pas sion for the peace they are negoti ating, bored faces, preoccupied faces, bored with the endless trans lations. Bored with the whole bore dom of diplomacy. Not a man among them who losi an arm or a leg, who knows what it is to suf fer on the battlefield. These are the men who are writing the peace. Jimmy Byrnes is not bored. Po lite, patient, precise Jimmy Byrnes sits on the front row ? perhaps he is too polite, too patient. . . . You feel like shouting down at Jimmy. You wish you had a telephone to reach him there, way down below. You wish you could tell him: "That was a great speech you made the other day, Jimmy, but finish it. Tell them the rest of the story. Tell them not only that the United States isn't going to remain isolated but also that we're going to raise hell with anyone who blocks our path to peace. Tell them that millions of Americans are fed up with all this frittering; that mil lions of Americans mean business and will back you up in anything you do." Around the senate chamber of the palace of Luxembourg are great, gold ornaments. Woodwork carved in ornate shapes, heavily encrust ed with gold?remnants of the lush days of the de Medicis. ... If the French had only been smart. If they had onlv painted out the eoM ,nd substituted white crosses! Then perhaps the bored diplomats sitting below would remember. . . . white crosses . . . from Guadalcanal and Stalingrad, from Salerno and New Guinea, from Tobruk and the Rap ido, from Normandy and Aachen . . . Close your eyes and you can see them. . . . Thousands of white crosses. . . . The dead speak: "We who lie here have noth ing left to give. "To all your praises we are deal and blind. "We may not even know if yon betray "The hopes we cherished for mankind." But the diplomats below don't seem to hear. . . . Men in red plush seats, fastidious men in red plush seats, their nails polished, their cravats carefully tied. They don't seem to hear. They are think ing about procedure and majority votes, vetoes and prestige and whether they will get out in time to take tea with Mrs. Ogden Mills. One man does hear. He sits op posite Jimmie Byrnes. ... A big, uncouth man, his hair not even parted. . . . Evatt of Australia. His cockney accent is uncultured but he dares to speak. He is the only man who comes anywhere near preach ing the Sermon On the Mount, who tells the bored men in the red plush seats that they must love their neighbors as themselves. . . . Un pleasantly Evatt steps on the toes of the big nations ? tells them they have no business sabotaging the peaceful goal of others. . . . They don't like Evatt, but they listen. 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