Show Taft Swings to Right As GOP Senate Leader 8 r By BAUKHAGE t News Analyst and Commentator Service 1616 Eye Street N. N W. W I I Washington D. D C. C i I WASHINGTON Recently the I keen Skeen ears of the master politicians Jon I on n Capitol Hill 1 have been tuned t. t to some strange WJ i squeaks and rat- rat i rK J es d developing eve 1 in inI x 4 1 I jt t t the h e otherwise p fK i i 1 wl smoothly running Republican publican Be sen- sen r Este rate te machinery It Itis is confidently predicted pre- pre dieted on n the r l Y y Democratic side bf of f the aisle that Chauffeur Taft iwho ho had pretty easy going in the drivers driver's Drivers Driver's seat up Baukhage until the latter latteri i part of February will have to jump out and tinker under the hood more l than once if rt J From now on observers say there t ere are are going ging to be e a lot more or or- ders ciers ers from the back seat fl I When the gentleman from Ohio took ok over after the November elections elec- elec ons even the timers old-timers sat up and Ito ok notice of the way he assumed harger harge arge He just shuffled the deck d dealt himself the cards he wanted want- want cd ed d chairman of the policy committee committee commit commit- i tee chairman of the labor committee committee commit commit- I tee which was going to direct labor 11 legislation n on what had been almost the No 1 issue of the day ch chairman irman Hof f the committee which handles the i new hew ew economic report Under the reorganization act this report must musts mustI 1 s I r V 4 yi yita j ta rr 9 fr a A A JOHN f y I JOHN W. W BRICKER I Dark Horse in Leash le e submitted annually to congress iy y the Presidents President's economic economic council 4 With reasonable support from pary par- par y stalwarts and with these power- power ul chairmanships in his hands it as though the senior senator rom m the Buckeye state easily could ide herd on the party vote delivering ering ing ing it when and where he wished But nut did you ever try to ride a lorse Corse or drive a cow with a large ed bumble-bee bumble leaping from fore- fore ock to buttock or from cud to rump l lot t so easy and no bumble-bee bumble ever or stung like the apis l lentia I Early Early in January I reminded you f the trouble the presidential bee vas as expected to cause when I I Ithe d Republican National Committee- Committee an an mark Clarence Budington Kelland's JI J I dont don't think you are going to ee the matter Republican candill candi- candi ll Jacy acy cy jell at all until Ohio decides its it's going to be Taft or And it hasn't jelled Aln Al- Al hough n ugh it was predicted Bricker bow out he has refused to ow Quite the contrary it is Taft Taftt t Tho is bowing not bowing not out but to the errands demands of the right win wing of the martyr Sarty Taft Tafts Taft's s 's friends insist Brick- Brick r r will exit at the right moment j But Tafts Taft's first obeisance was I lade wade toward the end of the Lilien- Lilien j Kal al l hearings He Hc announced his op- op to the confirmation of theCIA the CIA TVA head and did it with such ab- ab ence ce of the famous Taft logic that Y brows went up all over the i dace The reason for departing I tom m the the common common sense path that lis superior intellect usually dictates became evident Simultaneous- Simultaneous fl 1 his control of the the party in the enate began to slip J That was seen in the vote on the Budget In that case Taft took what Jost lost ost people considered the sensible the road course courser The four fou r id d a half billion cut rather than thane e e six billion urged by the house Of What happened to force Tafts Taft's s Lilienthal ti-Lilienthal statement Well Veil a conservative commentator f with Taft Taft criticized criticized what h he plied was a dangerous lack o of f Jr conservatism for a prospective standard-bearer standard of GOP Then a well-known well columnist came forthwith forth forthwith forthwith with the story that some of the powerful powerful powerful pow pow- erful backers of the Republican party party party par par- ty enlisted the support of a number of Republican lawmakers in the Lilienthal anti-Lilienthal movement They began began began be be- gan to whisper that perhaps Bricker would represent sounder safer saner saner saner san san- er views for the presidency Taft heard the whisper and came out emphatically emphatically emphatically em em- if not too convincingly against Lilienthal About that time the Roper poll revealed re revealed revealed re- re the percentage of preference for various Republican potential candidates candidates candidates can can- against Truman And lo 10 all the rest Dewey Stassen Bricker led Taft That doesn't mean that Taft willbe willbe will willbe be last in the hearts of the the- delegates to the Republican national conven convention tion in 1948 but wiseacres are saying it does mean that Taft no longer will call the turn on legislation i Crack Iron Curtain With Short Wave If there is much more evidence of the cracking of the so-called so iron curtain the impression may get about soon that it is a pretty porous protection of the secrets of the So So- viets Recently I was walking the corridors corridors corridors corri corri- dors of the state department with one of its officials How long I asked him do you expect the Kremlin to permit you people and the British with your American and British propaganda magazines and pamphlets and your broadcasts to poison Ivan and his with this western poison Oh he replied they wont won't stop us Why not I inquired They cant can't was his answer British Broadcasting company has been beaming broadcasts on Russia to Russia in the Russian language for a year or more BBC reports that the programs have been well- well received and that the effort is worth while The state department began its broadcasts last month Some of its officials believe that it is worth the millions it will cost to continue them The first program had few listeners it was criticized It is being tailored according to listener comment There is no way for the Russians to know about the programs programs programs pro pro- grams since notice of them except by announcement over BBC appears appears appears ap ap- pears in no Russian paper How is it the Russians permit it at all And even if they dont don't put obstacles in the way will the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- listen Are there radio radio radio ra ra- dio sets with wave short-wave receivers to tomake tomake tomake make up a worth while potential audience audience audience au au- These are the questions I asked Ill I'll try to give some of the answers As to the Russian attitude e it seems negative When the British first talked about broadcasting to Russia a Russian official is reported to have said We have tried to cooperate cooperate cooperate co co- operate with you You have your kind of democracy You believe in freedom of speech So we have cooperated cooperated co co- operated with you by sending you broadcasts in English from Russia We have our kind of democracy We Wedo Wedo Wedo do not believe in freedom of speech So we hope you will cooperate with our kind of democracy by NOT broadcasting to us If that wasn't actually said it ought to have been It is is too good to be untrue The British did not cooperate Neither did 11 other countries in including including including in- in Ecuador which along with the United States are all now beaming beaming beaming beam beam- ing their programs on Russia I dont don't know about the others but the British seem to have quite a following following following follow follow- ing and since the Russian people are more interested in America than in any other country I see no reason why the state departments department's effort shouldn't be quite as successful What are the chances In the first place radio listening has been developed developed developed de de- in Russia People are encouraged encouraged encouraged en en- to have sets and they are wave short-wave sets because wave short-wave is the communication method used by the Russian government That's because of the great distance How many have sets When Averill Harriman was there he made an estimate of sets A later estimate put the figure as to a million According to the Russian year five plan the goal is for the first year We Ve know that the Russians seized all the radio sets they could in territory they occupied also the government returned returned returned re re- re- re turned all sets seized from Russian citizens during the war 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