National Reports

...Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, head of the Foreign Relations Committee, has shown no drive in that field...

...Both candidates are apparently struck speechless on a subject which has engrossed millions across the country...

...his tenure dates from March 4, 1913...

...Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland is a member of the Committee...

...He was subsequently elected Treasurer despite Republican victories in the major state contests...

...Rayburn, incidentally, has been in Congress longer than anyone else...

...He has won praise from both wings...

...Hornaday reasons this way: "It has long been apparent that a vacuum exists in the foreign-affairs field on Capitol Hill since the death of the late Senator Robert A. Taft...

...Republicans may put a candidate up against him, but it will matter little...

...His interest abroad is almost exclusively in the Far East, and besides he has his hands full trying to hold together a disunited party...

...If any man in public life could afford a stand on conscience, it is the well-to-do Saltonstall...

...Before the opening of the campaign, it was generally agreed that both parties had made creditable selections at their June nominating conventions...

...National Reports Massachusetts Senate Race Begins JBy Courtney R. Sheldon Boston Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall, already campaigning for Te-election against State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, has for years been collecting his votes from both sides of the party line...

...Taft took the lead in foreign relations for his party after the death of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg when no other Republican stepped up to fill the vacancy...

...He doesn't need the job or its accompanying prestige...

...A recession or serious threat of war could erase this issue, but it will be hard to obliterate from many voters' minds the uneasy feeling that getting elected is the main thing that concerns both Saltonstall and Furcolo...

...There is little indication of what the voter is thinking about at this juncture besides the ever-present McCarthy issue...

...As an aristocrat "with a South Boston face"—as former Mayor James Curley dubbed him—he is looked upon kindly by some otherwise staunch Democrats...

...Johnson also backed Republican Senator William Knowland's threat to withdraw U. S. support from the UN if Red China is admitted...

...Currently, Johnson is performing the difficult feat of keeping the Humphrey-Lehman and Byrd-Dixiecrat wings of the party together in the Senate...

...an Austin attorney, lost to Shivers two years ago, and lost out in a race for Attorney General in 1938...

...This year's contest may be closer than most of the Texas press indicates, but Shivers appears to be in no great danger...

...Few are making forthright predictions, however, in view of the weakness of his most recent adversaries, as contrasted with Furcolo's strength...

...Texans Take Lead Among Democrats By Bicknell Eubanks Dallas For years, Tom Connally of Texas was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and helped push through important resolutions, legislation and treaties for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman...

...As a middle-of-the-road, internationalist, Eisenhower-type Republican, he has seldom seriously offended the independents or the liberals within his own party...

...Yet, faced with pressure from ultra-conservative elements within his own party, he stood before the Americans for Democratic Action convention in Boston, invited there as a keynoter, and declared that ADA had lost the respect of the community and should disband lest it injure the Democratic party...

...Their legislative records reflect the old Texas tradition of "fighting the interests...

...Now, another Texas Senator has taken the plunge into the foreign-affairs field and appears to like it...

...Labor and New Deal factions supported him without hesitation...

...The resolution, which passed the Senate with only one negative vote, put the Minority Leader in the pleasing position of being able to insist on bipartisanship in foreign affairs under the Eisenhower Administration...

...The feeling on McCarthy is intense in the Bay State, and candidates for public office show considerable fear of what McCarthyites will do if vexed...

...In his speech to ADA, made weeks before his nomination, Furcolo did not mention ADA's opposition to McCarthyism, but most observers feel that was the cause of the statement...

...Saltonstall goes placidly along without mentioning McCarthy's challenge of Eisenhower's leadership, and Furcolo steps politely aside when anyone mentions McCarthy's characterization of the Democrats as a "party of treason...

...In the early days of the first Roosevelt administration, he was co-author with Senator Burton K. Wheeler of the Wheeler-Rayburn Act, the basic utility-control bill, and also helped write the original Securities Exchange Control bill and the so-called death-sentence feature of the Utility Holding Company Act...

...But as Furcolo and Saltonstall begin to address themselves to the voters, instead of to their own convention coteries, there is increased voter awareness that something is lacking...

...He also had a major hand in originating the Rural Electrification Administration...

...Everything in his political and personal record indicated that he would oppose McCarthyism even if the tide swept him under...

...Texas's rapid population growth in the last decades has given it sixth place among the states in electoral votes...

...Lyndon Johnson, Senate Minority Leader, was author of the Guatemala resolution warning international Communism to stay out of the Western Hemisphere...

...No one mentions McCarthyism...

...In the major political campaign this year, a two-time statewide loser is trying to unseat Governor Allan Shivers, one of the strongest political figures in Texas history...

...Furcolo is not escaping equally severe criticism...

...Johnson's counterpart in the House, Minority Leader Sam Ray-burn, doesn't have to worry about re-election either...

...His demeanor was sufficiently conservative and his personality engaging, so that independents and some Republicans regarded him highly...

...Foster Furcolo was a Congressman from central Massachusetts before 1952, when former Governor Dever appointed him State Treasurer in an effort to solidify Italo-Amer-ican support for the Irish-dominated Democratic party...

...His only opponent in the Democratic primary is a little-known rancher from Beeville in South Texas...

...While Rayburn is best known for his tenure as Speaker of the House, he has an interesting legislative record...

...According to Walter C. Hornaday, of the Washington Bureau of the Dallas Morning News, Lyndon Johnson believes "he can take over direction of foreign policy in the Senate...

...Johnson faces little opposition down here in Texas for re-election...

...He was the leading Democrat who supported the Stevenson candidacy in Texas in 1952 when Governor Allan Shivers openly backed Eisenhower...

...Some here have caustically asked whether the Senator is aware that he gives the impression of being interested in remaining in the public eye at the expense of his conscience...

...The reason for this lack of candor is the widespread assumption that either a pro- or an anti-McCarthy stand by either would cause a wild crisscrossing of party lines...

...As Minority Leader, Johnson is moving into a position where he could be a real possibility for the 1956 Democratic ticket...

...It is difficult to see why Saltonstall is unwilling to risk defeat in order to take a stand on the moral and constitutional issue of McCarthy-ism...

...His record in Congress was distinctly liberal and internationalist...

...Both Rayburn and Johnson are effective examples of Southern agrarianism...

...Senator Johnson appears to be moving into the vacuum left by the passing of Senator Robert Taft, who, in turn, had sought to fill the gap in GOP Senatorial leadership in foreign affairs after the death of Arthur Vandenberg...

...Furcolo won his Congressional seat in a Republican-held district and retained it in the succeeding election, before his interim appointment as State Treasurer...

...There are few other significant differences between ADA and the official national leadership of the Democratic party...

...His opponent, Ralph Yarborough...

...Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey has tried to display GOP leadership there, but without great success...

...So far, supporters of both candidates act as if there is a gentlemen's agreement not to call attention to any omissions by their adversary...

...Saltonstall, by virtue of his proved vote-getting powers, is favored to win in November...

...The aging Senator Walter F. George of Georgia is ranking Democrat on foreign relations, but seems more interested in his Finance Committee...

...Johnson is doing much the same for the Democrats...