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Major State Department housecleaning in the works for early next year, according to close associates of Lyndon Johnson. One big policy-maker who won’t go: Charles Bohlen, a personal friend of President-elect Kennedy. . . . Already out, State’s two principal backers of Fidel Castro. One transferred to Argentina, the other to Germany. … Room being made in new Administration for selected Democratic losers: George McGovern (beaten by Senator Mundt) and Orville Freeman of Minnesota. . . . Official AFL-CIO News admits labor did badly on balance in state legislatures. GOP captured lower houses in eight states (Conn., Ida., Ill., Mich., Mont., Ohio, Wis., Wyo.) ; also regained three state senates (Ida., Ohio, S.D.). . . . Move under way to replace GOP National Chairman Thruston Morton by someone more acceptable to conservatives. In the running, James Kemper, Republican National Committeeman from Illinois. . . . With Kennedy victory margin tissue-thin, Liberal press, apparently for first time scared of Goldwater candidacy in ’64, moving into “Neanderthal Right” routine on him; some even priming Clifford Case as suitable “compromise” GOP candidate in ’64. . . . Rockefeller prospects strengthened by announcement that booster Jock Whitney will take over active management of Republican Herald Tribune early next year. Robert White, brought in from Mexico, Mo., eighteen months ago to run paper, going back to Missouri.

Nehru has warned Communist China that he will shoot down planes that fly over Indian territory-it’s his toughest statement yet. … Western officials in Tunisia say Communists now holding important positions in rebel Algerian government. (This was not .true six months ago. ) . . . Artist Rockwell Kent, a long-time fellow-traveler, announces he is giving his “great Kent collection” (collection of Kents) to a Moscow museum because a U.S. museum declined the gift.

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Major State Department housecleaning in the works for early next year, according to close associates of Lyndon Johnson. One big policy-maker who won’t go: Charles Bohlen, a personal friend of President-elect Kennedy. . . . Already out, State’s two principal backers of Fidel Castro. One transferred to Argentina, the other to Germany. … Room being made in new Administration for selected Democratic losers: George McGovern (beaten by Senator Mundt) and Orville Freeman of Minnesota. . . . Official AFL-CIO News admits labor did badly on balance in state legislatures. GOP captured lower houses in eight states (Conn., Ida., Ill., Mich., Mont., Ohio, Wis., Wyo.) ; also regained three state senates (Ida., Ohio, S.D.). . . . Move under way to replace GOP National Chairman Thruston Morton by someone more acceptable to conservatives. In the running, James Kemper, Republican National Committeeman from Illinois. . . . With Kennedy victory margin tissue-thin, Liberal press, apparently for first time scared of Goldwater candidacy in ’64, moving into “Neanderthal Right” routine on him; some even priming Clifford Case as suitable “compromise” GOP candidate in ’64. . . . Rockefeller prospects strengthened by announcement that booster Jock Whitney will take over active management of Republican Herald Tribune early next year. Robert White, brought in from Mexico, Mo., eighteen months ago to run paper, going back to Missouri.

Nehru has warned Communist China that he will shoot down planes that fly over Indian territory-it’s his toughest statement yet. … Western officials in Tunisia say Communists now holding important positions in rebel Algerian government. (This was not .true six months ago. ) . . . Artist Rockwell Kent, a long-time fellow-traveler, announces he is giving his “great Kent collection” (collection of Kents) to a Moscow museum because a U.S. museum declined the gift.