Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 49, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 November 1948 — U. N. Excited, Reds Amazed By Election [ARTICLE]

U. N. Excited, Reds Amazed By Election

Russian Situation Now Definitely Up To Truman Democrats To Solve Paris, Nov. 3. Excitement over the sensational upset in the American flection almost immobilized the United Nations today as delegates and advisers crowded around bulletin boards showing the latest returns. Representatives of the western European nations were delighted by President Truman’s amazing victory. They had been persuaded that Gov. Dewey, if elected, would support the continuance of American aid on an undiminished scale, but they were reassured, nevertheless, by the return of a Democratic President with a Democratic congress. Hector McNeil, chief of the British delegation and minister of state in Britain’s Labor government, expressed the prevailing western European viewpoint. “Happily in your country and in mine, the people are ialways right,” he said. “Magnifique,” commented Francois de Rose of the ■ French delegation. “We couldn’j; have foreseen this.” Amazing, Says Vishinsky Representatives of the soviet bloc were no less flabbergasted, but gave no sign of pleasure or disappointment. Andrei Vishinsky, deputy soviet foreign minister, threw up his hands and exclaimed: “This is an amazing upset!” “Now I’ll never believe the American press again,” commented Dmitri Manuilsky of the soviet Ukraine.

Secretary of State Marshall denied a press agency report that he had announced his intention to resign on Jan. 20 when President Truman will be inaugurated. However, Marshall’s statement added: “I have on numerous occasions expressed a very sincere desire to retire from public service.” Close associates of Marshall insisted that he intends to resign in January. They went so far as to speculate that W. Averell Harriman, former secretary of commerce in the Truman cabinet and now ambassador at large for the European aid program, may be the next of state. Harriman is an ardent Anglophile. Dulles Wears Black Tie Another possibility suggested by the same sources is Sen. Vandenberg, a bipartisan Republican supporter of the administration’s foreign policy, who will lose his job as chairman of the foreign relations committee as a result of the Democratic victory. The saddest figure on the U. N. scene was John , Foster Dulles, the man who might have become secretary of state had Gov. Thomas E. Dewey won. Dulles, another bipartisan internationalist, wore a new black silk tie. If this was a symbol of mourning, it probably was not intended to be for Dulles had accepted an invitation to a dinner given in his honor at the Ritz hotel tonight by Carlos P. Romulo, head of the Philippine delegation. Confident that it would be both a diplomatic and social triumph, Romulo had planned the dinner as the first honor to be extended by a foreign government to the next secretary of State. Shortly after Gov. Dewey conceded defeat, Dulles issued a statement acknowledging disappointment. Vern Giles and family of Chicago were Sunday visitors at the Bert Duggins home.