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Show d3elinJi the JJead fined 1 run most GOP strategy and affairs af-fairs in the Senate. The principal reason for this is that President Eisenhower has let it be known in advance that he personally favors a more conservative con-servative legislative program, a curtailed, balanced budget of some $77 billion and a "go slow" approach on civil rights, etc. Differences on this are already tearing apart the President's Cabinet. Although outwardly in agreement, it's been an open secret se-cret in Washington that his $77 billion budget has split his own Cabinet down the middle. Supporting the President are Treasury Secretary Anderson, Postmaster General Summer-field, Summer-field, Secretary of Commerce Straus, Budget Director Stans. But a bigger budget, more imaginative imag-inative and costlier program has already been demanded by Attorney At-torney General Rogers, Interior Secretary Seaton, Labor Secretary Secre-tary Mitchell, Welfare Secretary Flemming, Defense Secretary McElroy and almost certainly It is not too soon to predict that the new year 1959 we are entering will be remembered as a year of revolt, especially in Washington, D.C. This is not because 'it began with the dramatic New Year's victory by the Cuban rebels, led by Fidel Castro, over the Batista regime, which captured Americans' Ameri-cans' attention, or because the victory of the Cuban rebels now is certain to spark rveolt in the Dominican Republic, to which Batista fled, against the last of the Latin dictators, Gen. Rafael Trujillo. v . ' But 1959, now beginning, will not be remembered as a year of revolt because of the increasing opposition inside of Communist China to the new "Total Communism," Com-munism," imposed by Peiping. Although Western delegates in the United Nations are quietly investigating anti-Red Chinese rebellion in Peiping controlled Tibet, this is not expected to become be-come the new year's dominant development, either. by Secretary of State Dulles, whose modest increase in foreign economic spending was already revealed to be larger than those indicated in the President's budget. bud-get. Moreover, the Cabinet rebels are publicly backed by Vice President Nixon, also backing the Senate rebels, who believes The possibility of a new Hungarian Hun-garian style revolt is in the mind of everyone again in the Red-controlled Red-controlled East European satellite satel-lite countries again. This is especially espe-cially because Soviet dictator-PremierKrushchev dictator-PremierKrushchev has been able to override a revolt by his Stalinist Sta-linist foes to assume undisputed power. But although Krushchev stands for a relaxation of Red oppression and a loosening of police state controls in the satel- lite countries, he has shown, in Hungary that he is quick to smash any effort to expel the Russians. Washington, D.C, will remember remem-ber the new year, almost certainly, certain-ly, as a year of revolt because of the drama that is already unfolding un-folding in the nation's capital. In a nutshell, the growing liberal lib-eral membership of both the Republican Re-publican and Democratic parties in both the Senate and House of Representatives is expected to the $77 billion budget may cost him the Presidency in 1960. All of this dissension within the GOP will be matched by the customary North-South civil rights splits among the Democrats Demo-crats and splits between newly strengthened Democratic liberal and old line conservative wings. But Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson of Teas is certain that all of this will merely offer him a greater opportunity to reconcile recon-cile the differences in writing Senate legislation and emerge as a "Great Conciliator" at the end of the legislative year, which will be, incidentally, on the eve continue meir revou against xne more conservative leadership. Revolt inside the White House, at the upper eschelons of the Administration Ad-ministration and even in the President's own Cabinet is also even now beginning to occur. In the House of Representatives, Representa-tives, Democratic liberals have of the 1960 conventions. Despite denials, the powerful Texan still nurses Presidential hopes which he believes GOP and Democratic Demo-cratic rebels will ornically f ur-thcT ur-thcT for him in the 86th Congress. attracted attention by their effort ef-fort to liberalize the House rules. Although Speaker Sam Rayburn has been ableto nip most of the liberals' demands in the bud, he realizes that he will have a big time holding the line when legislative legis-lative activity actually gets under un-der way. House Republicans, it can now be revealed, have also attempted to cut down the powers of House GOP Leader Joe Martin, whom many feel has grown too autocratic. auto-cratic. The White House has refused re-fused to support them in this. Joe Martin has even refused polite po-lite suggestions that he should resign his GOP leadership and make way for the Republican "rebels." But he, too, has confided con-fided that he knows he will find it more difficult keeping Republicans Repub-licans united when legislative activity gets going. The big and open rebellion between be-tween conservatives and liberal "rebels" in both parties is, however, how-ever, raging in the Senate. The hard core of Senate GOP liberals, lib-erals, led by Senators Aiken of Vermont and Cooper of Kentucky Ken-tucky and Case of New Jersey, is inevitably going to be a continuing con-tinuing struggle between the conservative Republican major-tiy major-tiy which, while a minority in the full Senate, will continue to |