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Show . ii: l WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1 : -.ilj : !i Republicans Hake Sweeping Gains i j For Both Senate and House Seats; j ! Korean Situation Is Called Serious M :ir I J i I ii (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of I 1 Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ii sussi A'tTS j j ht fySjfl jjfjz U - -yS sWOWSAW-- - I : Yellow 'jfl ArtotaiAn Ba. aeq I Sea Sa I i STATUTl Mllft jTS 1 n 'WCM' I ' An estimated 80,000 Chinese Communists are reported driv- ' 1 Ing southward (broken arrows) In an attempt to split U.N. forces. ; I U.N. troops withdrew, although some units were surrounded and j cut to pieces. Observers report the Korean situation serious. ELECTION: ! Republicans Gain j ' : Taking the administration by sur- 1 ' prise, the Republican party made ! sweeping gains in the senate and house in one of the most hotly contested con-tested national elections in years. j As final tabulations were being ! completed, observers believed that the Democrats would retain 49 sen- i ate seats and the Republicans would have 47. To all practical purposes the Republicans will have a work- i i ; ing majority in the senate and will ' control legislative voting with the ' aid of rebellious southern Democrats. Demo-crats. N' In the house the Republicans made sweeping gains, but not 1 enough for control. I ; Most startling aspect of the elec- ' i tion, in the opinion of most observers, ob-servers, was the defeat of such men j as Democrat Sen. Millard E. Tyd- i ; ; ings of Maryland and Sen. Scott ' ; Lucas of Illinois. j ! Lucas was the Democratic ma- : 1 jority leader in the senate and Tyd- ''( ' Ings was a strong supporter of the "! , . administration and the state depart- J, ment. - j In Ohio, Sen. Robert A. Taft won j -a resounding victory over the labor- ' j Truman purge attempt. Foreign , i policy played an important part in J ! Taft's campaign and the results of , ! the battle may , shake the founda- j tions of the Republican party. Some , observers saw Taft's victory as a m plain indication that the people were ; not happy with the administration's ! foreign policy. ! The administration took another j 1 I blow in Connecticut. Republican i ' John Davis Lodge ousted Fair Deal J I ' Democrat Chester Bowles in the j j governor's contest. Democrat Sen. j ; I ; Brien McMahon, however, was re- 1 ' j 1 i elected. Headliners Gov. Thomas E. Dewey added a marathon television show to his list of political-campaigning devices. devic-es. He had Mrs. Dewey on the show with him a while. He asked her, "Why don't you take your hat off." She replied, "Because my hair's a mess. Why do things like this happen just when I need a permanent?" "The Communists committed one of the most offensive acts of international in-ternational lawlessness of historic record," Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in his report on Chinese intervention in-tervention in Norih Korea. George Bernard Shaw, Irish author au-thor and wit, who died at the age of 94, for years had kept the world in a whirl with his use of words. Here are some Shavianisms: Success Suc-cess "The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people;" peo-ple;" Truth "The truth is the one thing nobody will believe;" Love "Sir, there are two tragedies In life. One is to lose your heart's desire. de-sire. The other Is to gain it." KOREA: Situation Serious The war in Korea which seemed on the verge of complete victory for the United Nations forces took a dangerous turn with the invasion inva-sion of Chinese Communists. Political Po-litical observers termed the situation situa-tion serious, including Gen. Douglas Doug-las MacArthur, the U.N. commander. com-mander. According to available reports, between three and six Chinese divisions di-visions crossed the boundary between be-tween Manchuria and Korea and went into battle beside the North Koreans. Ko-reans. The immediate military result re-sult was a withdrawal of U.N. troops south, in some instances as much as 50 miles. I j ; In New York, Gov. Thomas E. I i j ; Dewey, twice-defeated Republican ; : ! : nominee for president, won a third j ! term as governor of that state. The J ; governor's running mate, Lt. Gov. ' Joe R. Hanley, was defeated by j i Sen. Herbert Lehman. Here again ij was evidence of that trend where 1 neither Republicans or Democrats i - were able to sweep all offices. This split across party lines was evident in many sections of the country. ! In California, Republican Gov. "J Earl Warren, seeking a third'term, won re-election over James Roose- velt, son of the late President. Rep. Richard M. Nixon also, defeated , Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas ' in a senatorial battle. 5 In a congressional fight that at tracted nation-wide attention, Amer- ! lean-Labor party Rep. Vito Mar-cantonio Mar-cantonio of New York, the only minor party representative in the house, was unseated by a Demo-E Demo-E cratic-Republican-Liberal coalition : formed for the solepurpose of beat- irtl I ing him. Marcantonio's foes charg- ui ed that he followed every twist and J1 turn of the Communist party line J during his service in the house. As final tabulations were compiled, com-piled, observers agreed that Demo-Prtt Demo-Prtt cratic control of the senate and g house was so slight it did not con stitute a safe working majority. As a result, the next two years will see ' ! i a number of bitter battles on legis- .- ' ' ! lation and much of it being passed i i or killed by incredible small mar- i 1 ; gins. MacArthur summed up the situation sit-uation by reporting that the North Korean army was finished as a fighting force in October by the inflicting in-flicting of 335,000 casualties. This included 135,000 Reds who were captured. His communique on the situation situa-tion said: "In the face of this victory vic-tory of U.N. arms, the Communists Commu-nists committed one of the most offensive acts of international lawlessness law-lessness of historic record . . . ." There are available in Manchuria about 300,000 troops veterans of the Chinese civil war which could be thrown into the battle immediately. immed-iately. Another 300,000 are believed to be either in Manchuria or North China. The dangerous question now facing fac-ing the free nations is what attitude atti-tude the Chinese will take to Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's charge that "alien Communists" Com-munists" have entered the war. Whether the Communist world is prepared to take this colossal step is a secret, most probably locked in the depths of the Kremlin. If the Commi'nists are ready to take this risk lt may mean the start of World War III and the end of the world as we have known it. |