The New Senate

The new Senate, which will probably be called on to ratify the peace treaty, will be more internationalist than the last.

On the crest of the national wave, Democrats ousted three sitting Republicans, lost at least two present seats to the G.O.P. Result: the party make-up of the new Senate will be virtually the same as the old. And it will be led again by Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley, who won easy re-election in Kentucky.

The voters showed their internationalist sympathies in ousting Republicans. To defeat went North Dakota's slippery Isolationist Gerald P. Nye, Pennsylvania's Isolationist James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, and Connecticut's John Danaher. All were replaced by men pledged to U.S. cooperation in world affairs: Governor John Moses in North Dakota, Congressman Francis J. Myers in Pennsylvania, and ex-U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brien McMahon in Connecticut.

In 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.

Some of the most hardheaded incumbent isolationists were already beaten in primaries: Missouri's mulish Bennett Clark, Idaho's stubborn D. Worth Clark, Oregon's egregious Rufus Holman, South Carolina's "Cotton Ed" Smith.

The list of those Senators who won without a struggle is studded with internationalists: Alabama's Lister Hill, Arizona's Carl Hayden, Arkansas' James William Fulbright, Florida's Claude Pepper, North Carolina's Clyde Hoey--Democrats all; plus G.O.P. Internationalists George Aiken of Vermont and Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts.

The threat of the reddest of red-hot isolationists--Richard J. Lyons, the Chicago Tribune-backed candidate in Illinois --was soundly beaten off by New Dealing Scott Lucas. The only really hard-shell isolationists who won reelection, both more narrowly than expected, were Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley and New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey.

Other Senate races:

P: In New York, ailing Robert F. Wagner, the most solid of all New Dealers, surprised all experts by running ahead of F.D.R. to swamp colorless Tom Curran, Tom Dewey's personal choice.

P: Indiana had a new Senator, beaming, round-faced Republican Homer Capehart, the juke-box king, who nosed out homespun Governor Henry F. Schricker.

P: In New Jersey, H. Alexander Smith, a G.O.P. boiled-shirt internationalist, defeated Boss Hague's stooge, an unknown Congressman named Elmer H. Wene (rhymes with bean).

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