Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Foreign Policy May Be Big Issue When the Congress Slight Advance Made in N. Korea are In thur they are of newa and noi tf Ihla The Battle is Underway The echo of the G O P. victory In the November notional election had not subsided before another voice was heard on the national It was a Republican chorus of and a hint of congressional The battle began for greater power In the coming session of On the domestic Republican leaders opened fire on what they called the inflationary This was not believed to mean price controls for the benefit of the American Senator Wiley of fresh from a reelection is a national tragedy the way prices of military items have been allowed to leap since the Korean conflict Controls were expected to be along this There were indications also that a new investigation of Communist Influences In government would be launched by Republicans when the next congress Notice was also served on the Democrats that Republicans will Insist upon advance consultation on foreign policy And Robert A. now the acknowledged of the Republican made It clear he would like to hang Acheson's scalp to his belt when he haven't the slightest confidence In Acheson's To most observers It was clear the Republican party had launched an all-out campaign for control of the U.S. The final battle will be fought with the ballot box In The Battle Continues While the world speculated about China's ultimate aims in the battle Reports from the scene were Military observers estimated as many as Chinese Communists fighting in North but said United Nations forces continued low advances behind smashing air a Chinese delegation was invited to the United Nations to hear the charge of aggression in North Korea lodged against them by the United Many observers believed they had found the one main reason for China's action in North It centered around the great North Korean power plants along the Yalu river The Chinese Reds apparently were willing to fight to protect The reason being that the mighty hydroelectric plants strung across the neck of North Korea produced of Korea's kilowatt An undetermined amount of that power going into the great center of China's heavy With this in Chinese forces plunged into North Korea and forced United Nations troops to withdraw from the Since the Chinese have constructed a below the vital plants and will put up a determined defense when U. N. forces reach the area Mao Tze-tung does not want that power shut Although the Russians looted much Manchurian productive equipment during their postwar what is left is China's chief hope for And the Communist party line jays Industrialization is the answer to China's historic Dwarfs the To those who remember the and such gangs as the Capone Senator chairman of the senate committee investigating made a shocking The senator said that in the country today would make kindergarten play out of the operations of the Capone and that the influence of crime on public official is sinister and very He went so far as to say that his committee had the facts to prove that well-organized and groups of criminals are operating throughout the country with ownership between ail He said the racketeers are corrupting public officials and law enforcement and are putting their money into legitimate in which they use racketeering Kefauver's reasons for the continued prosperity of crime agreed with those of most Local public indifference to stopping the rackets Kefauver's nation-wide study Is aimed at strengthening federal laws to block the way for organized Such laws would include interstate ban on the shipment of gambling more control over the wire strengthening of the postal and amendments to the internal revenue laws which would real Gamblers and racketeers now cheat the United States out of hundreds of millions of dollars a year in CORN Rural Vote Counts Leaders of both major parties have spent considerable time since the election trying to read the future from the election One obvious conclusion was The major battle ground for the 1952 election will be in the midwest corn As most voters Truman won the 1948 election because three Midwest states Jumped from their traditional column to the Democrat They were Illinois and Had any two of these states voted for Dewey In he would have been In the recent the rural vote returned to the Republican Two factors may have influenced the switch in the farm a tendency for farmers to return to their traditional when times are good and to vote Democratic only when their prices and Incomes are apparent dissatisfaction with foreign policies of the For these reasons the farmers of the Midwest will themselves the target of both Republican and Democratic candidates In The Republicans will attempt to increase their gains and the Democrats can be expected to launch a full-scale attack to It might even be said that the farmers of the midwest will elect the next president of the United |