National Affairs: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES

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Pundit WALTER LIPPMANN: General Eisenhower needed to bring to the Republicans a sizable proportion of the voters who backed him in 1952. He has not done it because in the past two years he has not conducted an administration which won that support. The President has gone much too far in appeasing the Republican right wing, and not nearly far enough in building up the liberal wing. The real uninhibited Eisenhower is a liberal in international relations and welfare measures. It is impossible to make a majority party out of the old-guard Republicans. General Eisenhower rightly thinks of himself as a national figure above the party struggle destined to uphold the unity of the nation against division of interests and factions. He can still be that kind of President.

The Fair-Dealing Los ANGELES DAILY NEWS: The American people are obviously working up to something, but the stirrings at the roots have not yet burst into view. The combination of Democratic congressional increases and President Eisenhower's leadership seems to be exactly the bipartisan government the people want.

Columnists JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP : The biggest gainer, if the Republican Party is halfway sensible, will be President Dwight Eisenhower. The biggest losers are Joseph R. McCarthy and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. It is clear the Republican Party has done much better than expected in 1954, because the Republicans had a great asset in Eisenhower. [A] cleanout occurred among the President's bitterest Republican enemies, the all-out adherents of Senator McCarthy. The Republicans can still win in 1956, if they only try to do it the Eisenhower way.

Columnist DREW PEARSON : The election focused more attention on the Republican demand, sure to roll up. for Eisenhower to run again. The stable of Democratic candidates has now increased. It includes: Governor Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, four-time governor of Michigan; Governor Frank Lausche, five times governor of Ohio; Senator Estes Kefauver, and Governor-elect George Leader of Pennsylvania (see U.S. AFFAIRS).

Britain's liberal MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: For the next two years the American government will be weakened. The division between the President and Congress is bad enough even when they are in the hands of one party. There are remedies. The first lies with the President. He must be a nonpartisan President. That is a great deal to ask of any man. It means abandoning any thought of seeking the Republican nomination in 1956.

THE LONDON NEWS CHRONICLE, spokesman for Britain's Liberal Party: America has had two years of bad government by a Republican Congress—and an unhappy Republican President with liberal leanings. She may now find that a Democratic Congress makes a better combination with President Eisenhower.

France's conservative LE FIGARO: President Eisenhower has always tried to obtain the collaboration of the opposition in working out his external policy. He will have his hands freer to realize his dream of a diplomatic policy exempt from all bipartisan considerations.