Only Eisenhower cabinet member who might be held over is James Mitchell. Several union leaders would like to see him continue as Labor Secretary. … Kennedy resisting pressures to appoint a Negro to high-level post right away. He fears such appointment would drive Southern congressmen into alliance with GOP to block his legislative program. . . . Some talk that Henry Cabot Lodge may be named to serve on U. S. delegation to UN under Stevenson, or whoever ends up getting j ob. . . . Congressional Quarterly reports that in last Congress, Northern and Southern Democrats were split on 40 per cent of the roll call votes. Southerners opposed increase in minimum wage, federal aid to education, Kennedy medical plan for aged, tax reform law backed by Liberals. . . . GOP post-mortem: Nixon could have won if there had been a shift of 11,000 votes (in Mo., N.M., Nev. and Ill.) … Happy over results: furniture moving companies in D. C., who expect $5 million in business as GOPers move out, Democrats in.
In Paris, it’s expected Soviet ambassador Vinogradov may soon be recalled. Vinogradov paved way for closer Franco- Soviet relations, now passé since Khrushchev’s open endorsement of FLN. . . . Seventy-six Italian intellectuals —Alberto Moravia, Salvatore Quasimodo, Vittorio Gassman among them—supporting French intellectuals in their manifesto urging French soldiers to refuse to serve in Algeria. . . . Est-Ouest reports leaders of three banned European Communist parties (Spanish, Portuguese and West German) operating from clandestine French bases.




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