Effect On Foreign Relations

Northern Advocate, 7 November 1946, Page 5

Effect On Foreign Relations

Diplomatic authorities interpret the Republican triumph as having *at least three different impacts on America’s foreign relations, says the Associated Press. ' (1) The election result makes Senator Vandenberg the strong man of American delegations to the Foreign Ministers’ Council and the United Nations.’ Assembly. (2) Despite the two-party nature ol American foreign policy, foreign diplomats are now uncertain hew American relations will develop when a Republican Congress can approve or kill the Administration’s foreign policy at will. (3) .The delicate balance of relations between the United States and Russia may be upset, at least temporarily, by the sweep to power of a party which made an issue ever domestic .Communism and which the Moscow Press had opposed. When the House reorganises in January'the Republican caucus will choose candidates for Clerk, Sergeant-at-i Arms, Doorkeeper, Postmaster, and 1 other positions held by the Democrats since 1931, and which they must now vacate.

There are scores of other jobs, such as committee and other clerkships, and’ lift operators all affected by the wholesale house-cleaning, down .to messengers and Capitol police. r Republicans automatically take the chairmanships of all committees. Representative Knutson, who is likely to be Republican Chairman* ol the House Ways and Means Committee, forecast today that the new Congress will reduce individual income taxes in 1947 by 20 per cent. Mr Knutson said Republicans would press through a separate bill cutting excise taxes on liquor, jewellery, furs, cosmetics, etc.

Senator Pepper (Dem., Florida) said: "I predict hard days ahead for the people. The Republican Party captured our Government after the First World War. as they have captured it after the second. “Then we got inflation, depression and isolation that led to world chaos and war.

“Woe unto that party if it takes the nation and the world down that tragic road again.”