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Unlike the past, the guest lists have not been confined to comrades and sympathizers, but include skeptics and outright critics. Ex-Prime Minister Attlee's British Labor Party delegation was the biggest catch; but there have also been Japanese industrialists, a couple of U.S. Congressmen, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith (see RADIO & TV). An official British parliamentary delegation that included the Duke of Wellington and all shades of M.P.s has just returned home. Georgy Malenkov told them: "We believe that the most realistic policy is that of peaceful coexistence-it must be either that...
Among the more surprising House contests were two in Florida and Texas, where Republican Congressmen were elected in traditionally Democratic districts. Also unexpected was the result in the First District of Utah, where Republican Henry Dixon, after only two weeks of campaigning, won the Congressional seat recently vacated by the discredited hero Douglas Stringfellow...
Widespread among voters was the feeling that this election did not matter much. The shift-if there is a shift-would probably be by a narrow margin. Since neither Democratic nor Republican Congressmen have been obedient to party discipline, what difference would it make which side had a numerical advantage...
This line of reasoning missed some basic facts about contemporary U.S. politics. More than ever before Congressmen and congressional candidates are trying to read the public mind, rather than to persuade the voters that such-and-such a course is right. A Democratic victory that included the re-election of liberal Paul Douglas, for instance, would be interpreted by scores of ear-flapping Congressmen of both parties as a sure sign that the nation had swung leftward again. Similarly, the defeat of such Eisenhower Republicans as New Jersey's Clifford Case together with victory for right-wing Republicans would...
Although the boost was originally proposed by wool-state Congressmen as a defense measure, it was also their price for going along with the Administration's program of lower support prices for other agricultural products. Actually, the fatter subsidy could result in lower consumer prices for woolen goods, because Congress also decided that the 1955 clip should seek its own price level in a free market. The Government will make up the difference to growers out of the duties on wool imports. Under the present law, the Government guarantees the growers up to 90% of parity by buying...