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Tripartite. In Milwaukee's normally Republican, heavily German Fifth District, isolationist ex-Congressman Lewis Thill was trounced by six-foot, ruddy Andrew Biemiller, 38, a man of three parties. Biemiller was first a campaign manager for Socialist Norman Thomas in 1932; then a Progressive floor leader in Wisconsin in 1541; a Democratic jobholder ($4,600 a year in WPB) until he ran for Congress...
...Churchill's presence in Paris. Except for a brief dash to Normandy shortly after the invasion, Churchill had not been in France since 1940. Then, at the climax of France's collapse before the German armies, he had swooped in by plane to reverse centuries of British isolationist policy toward Europe by offering the disintegrating nation parliamentary Union Now with Britain...
...Iowa, old-line Democratic Isolationist Guy M. Gillette was trounced by Iowa's short, balding Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, an able, popular Governor with internationalist leanings. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, a Republican who has supported the Roosevelt foreign policy 100%, won easy reelection. In Washington, the seat vacated by pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationist Homer Bone went to honey-haired Congressman Warren Magnuson, a 1,000% New Dealer...
...overall news was the defeat of Republican isolationism and the re-elections of Republicans with non-isolationist or liberal record. In New York, to the nation's delight, down went rabid anti-Roosevelt isolationist Hamilton Fish, after 24 years in Congress. His successor: liberal Augustus W. Bennet, 47, Newburgh lawyer. Another surprise was the defeat of the Chicago Tribune's alter ego, isolationist stalwart Stephen A. Day. Against Day and the odds, intelligent, serious Emily Taft Douglas, wife of a Chicago economics professor (now in the Marines) won her first try at big-time politics. Rednecked Marine Colonel...
...Columbus, Ohio, after trekking down side roads in 31 states, 16,000 miles from coast to coast. Harry Truman ended an 8,000-mile, 15-state tour with a blazing blunder in close-fought Massachusetts. He called his fellow Democratic Senator, Massachusetts' massive, paunchy David Ignatius Walsh, an isolationist, adding brightly: "But we have a chance to reform him." Senator Walsh, a longtime anti-New Dealer, reputedly of great influence on the Massachusetts Catholic vote, had devoted exactly two grudging sentences to the support of his party, without reference to Term IV. Walsh made the most of the insult...