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Show npHE expense of the Korean war in the lives of American youths was fully realized with the Defense De-fense Department's report that the conflict cost the U. S. a toll of 142,277 casualties, including 25,604 dead. The preliminary total, which will be revised from time to time, makes the three-year Korean conflict con-flict the fourth most costly war in the history of the United States as far as casualties are concerned. The total compares with 364,800 American battle casualties in World War I and 1,143,694 in World War II. Communist casualties are estimated esti-mated to have been between 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 and 2,000,000 with about half of these suffered by the Red Chinese. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin has injected the issue of newspaper postage rates Into his running fight with the Washington Wash-ington Post. The Post criticized McCarthy recently re-cently for what the newspaper called the intensive interrogation of editor James A. Wechsler of the New York Post concerning an editorial in that paper critical to Senator McCarthy. McCarthy has denied the charge. Then in his latest blast McCarthy said: "This subject becomes of .more than academic interest when ii Is remembered that the Postal Department requested $240,000,000 for the current year to make up the difference between what was paid by newspapers, magazines, etc., for postage and the actual cost of handling such publications by the Post Office. "I am sure you will agree that the Congress . . . and the taxpayers tax-payers . . ,. would be strongly opposed op-posed to having his money used to disseminate falsehoods." Replied Philip L. Graham, publisher pub-lisher of the Washington Post: "We do not agree with Senator McCarthy that newspapers should be compliant to a senator's demands de-mands just because the Congress has voted mail rates that may provide pro-vide subsidy to newspapers. We have consistently stated in our editorials that newspapers should b? charged the full cost of mail service . . . Senator McCarthy has given no evidence that he is qualified to become chief censor of what news may be sent in the mail." Reports from many sections of the country indicates that the 1954 congressional campaign is already al-ready underway. Members of the House and Senate are home again fence-mending and feeling for the public pulse. Even at this early date, it is re-Porte! re-Porte! that the campaign next year will be the hardest fought in many years. The Republicans are driving for control of the House and Senate in the final two years of President Eisenhower's term. They won control . of both housilB by the narrowest of margins In 1952. Victory in 1954 is also vital to the Democrats. They see it as a stepping step-ping stone to 1956, when they hope to put a Democrat back in the White House. There is going to be a lot of campaigning between , now and January. |