News highlights: the Democrats win Congress. Eisenhower wins by nine million votes but fails to carry his party into Congress.
Eisenhower confers with JohnFoster Dulles (in Walter Reed Hospital) and others regarding the Middle East. Israel rejects UN troops to Israel, the UN to replace Anglo-French troops in Egypt. Ceasefire in the Canal Zone. The Soviets still battle Hungary in Budapest, shell city ruthlessly. Anti-Russian demonstrations in Paris.
