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Stratford, Conn. NEIL R" GAHAGAN...
...good part of what McCarthy said, they nevertheless decided that where there was so much smoke there must be some fire. (The Democrats had argued that so much smoke only indicated an arsonist.) In California, victorious Senator Richard Nixon, who had routed the Democrats' left-leaning Helen Gahagan Douglas, confidently announced: "My victory is a mandate from the people of California for some changes in the State Department...
Both Republicans and Democrats have agreed that "McCarthyism" was an important issue in some of the Republican victories. California, where Richard M. Nixon played up the issue of "communism in the government," is a case in point. There Helen Gahagan Douglas lost by 500,000 votes. At the same time Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, who was chairman of the Senate committee to investigate Senator McCarthy's charges--a committee which returned a verdict unfavorable to McCarthy--lost to a man practically unknown...
...extremes. The Republicans most in trouble, including some Midwesterners who normally might be expected to coast in, were generally those on the outer limits of the right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble for the middle of the road. With their differences thus narrowed in so many races...
...arrived at Liberal Union headquarters up to last night in response to the anti-McCarran Bill appeal, members reported. Donations have already been made to Senator Herbert H. Lehman in New York. Other funds are on their way to Representative John A. Carroll of Colorado, and Helen Gahagan Douglas of California...