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...expected to send two Republican Senators to Washington. Most Democrats in the Senate want to cancel that prospective G.O.P. gain by granting statehood to Alaska (pop. 182,000), which would be expected to elect Democrats. Some Southern Democrats don't want Hawaii admitted at all, because of Hawaiian disregard for the color line. Last week three Republicans (Nevada's Malone, North Dakota's Langer and Maryland's Butler) joined Democrats in a 46-43 vote to package the two statehood proposals. Senate Majority Leader William Knowland, who had failed to hold his Republican colleagues together...
...Dixiecrat-Republican coalition is strong enough to defeat the twin statehood bill, as it now seems, a proposal for Hawaiian statehood alone probably could gain the support necessary for Congressional approval. This is what many Republicans hope, and though such tactics are deplorable, they must be faced for what they are. Statehood for Hawaii should not be held up for partisan reasons, even if it means that Alaska will have to wait for a more hospitable Democratic Congress. A climate favorable for joint admission may not come for a decade...
...Senate Interior Committee approved Alaskan statehood 14 to 1 (Louisiana's Democratic Senator Russell Long). The bill follows one for Hawaiian statehood to the Senate floor, where opponents will attempt to link them together and then kill them both...
Very soon, Congressmen will be voting on the statehood issue. Through your newspaper we may stir enough interest in the people to write to their Congressmen, tolling them that they are definitely in favor of Hawaiian statehood. . . . Clinton Ching '56, President Hawaii Club of New England
Family: While on duty at Schofield Barracks in 1932, married Maude Mc-Keever, daughter of a sugar broker on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Children: Richard, an Air Force Reserve pilot; Nathan Alexander, a promising pianist; Olivia, now at Holton-Arms Junior College in Washington. General Twining's elder brother, Robert, Annapolis, 1916, is a retired captain; his younger brother, Major General Merrill Twining, Annapolis, 1923, is deputy chief of staff of U.S. Marine Corps...