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Eisenhower Draft-Proof,Truman Sure Nominee, Observer Says The writer is president of the Kansas City Star and a recog nized authority on political af fairs. The following story is based on information he obtained from Washington sources during a recent visit here. By Roy A. Roberts North American Newspaper Atjiance NEW YORK, April 16.—There are two facts that are just as certain as anything can be politically—one is that Harry S. Truman will be the nominee of the Democratic Party next November; the other is that Dwight D. Eisenhower will not be drafted by anybody. The current movement to brush President Truman from the leader ship of his party next November comes from two sources. First, the city bosses who are concerned pri marily in carrying their tickets— State and local—are about of one mind that President Truman will be a load of coal to carry and not the asset President Roosevelt was for many years. Few people who follow closely the tangled skeins of American politics realize the significant change that has come about as far as city machines are concerned. The so called city bosses used to be con servative in the old days. They looked to industrial and financial leadership for their cues. Lacks FDR’s Touch. They discovered that FDR could deliver the mass votes of the city not only for the presidency but for the local tickets—their chief con cern. That is why one saw for years the Hon. Frank Hague of New Jer sey, the Hon. Ed Flynn of the Bronx, the Hon. Ed Kelly of Chicago de livering their votes for FDR and the New Deal. It was the easy way to win elections. Unfortunately, the present occu pant of the White House does not possess the same magic touch FDR had. President Truman has rot only espoused every cause his peren nial predecessor in the White House did, he has gone further—much fur ther, in actuality. Mr Truman’s voice, however, lacks the dulcet tones that woo the voter. The city bosses have found this out, and that is why they are talking about a candidate ether than Harry Truman. And they have had at least two secret confabs about per suading him to retire. Truman Is Misjudgea. But they do not know President Truman. Of course he is going to run. Of course he is going to Insist on the party nomination. They have entirely misjudged the man. The pressure they bring to eliminate him from the picture will have just one result—that is, to make him more stubborn than ever in insisting on his renomina tlon. Whatever else may be said about President Truman, he is not a quitter. Present-day world events may have dwarfted his stature. He is not the greatest man on earth— and he would be the first to admit it He can make all kinds of mis takes and does, generally listening to the last person who advises him. But essentially, at heart, Presi dent Truman is a patriot. For in stance, he was advised when he made his great reversal on the partition of Palestine that it might damn him politically. The facts, however, were DUt before him as they affected the National interest. And he said it had to be regardless of political consequences. Stories Don’t Make Sense. What the city bosses ovedlook is that if they dump President Tru man they still have to run on his record of the last three and a half years. Moreover, some of the fan tastic stories being circulated on the President such as his planning to take the floor at the Democrat convention to nominate Gen. Eisen hower as his successor—simply don’t make sense. That would mean a confession he had not measured up to the job. More, it would mean an abso lute lapse in American foreign pol icv, for six month at least, at a moment most critical in the world s history. It would be little short of abdication. It would mean as far as the rest of the world was con cerned that the United States had no President, only a stop-gap. Of course, no man is going to do It and certainly not Harry Truman, who may be a failure but does nr*, lack patriotism or innards. He he| stuck through desperate situations’ before. New Dealers Dropped. The second—and the most vocal elemtn demanding Mr. Trumans re placement are the New Dealers and labor. They are typified by the Roosevelt boys and the other of that ilk who are lustily demanding that Mr. Truman make way for someone else. The plain facts are that Harry Truman has accepted the New Deal philosophy of the late FDR, but he hasn’t taken all the New Deal personnel. Mr. Truman was uncomfortable having them about all the time. They resented it. One by one they have been drop ped by the wayside. They feel their loss of importance. They want to get back in the White House inner circles, and so they are spear heading the vocal drive to Mr. Tru man to retire. Of course, he won't. Anyone who knows the fundamental Missouri Democrat knows they only quit when they are carried to the cemetery—not at the behest of mouthy’ demands from self-seekers. One thing of major importance this dual drive on the party of the city bosses and the extreme left wingers is accomplishing is to make the defeat of Mr. Truman next November much more certain. The revolt from the South is genuine, deep-seated and sincere. It strikes at vitals down South. The rest is entirely politics. Mr. Truman hap pens to have got all three on his back. But he w’on't quit. SUMMER CAMPS. AND SUMMER CAMPS FREE advice on America's finest camps and schools. Enroll your child now in a camp or school we have seen and can endorse. Special attention to New England camps and schools of the Middle Atlantic area—Military Schools—Prepara tory Schools and Junior Colleges. WASHINGTON 1 SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION I 814 18th St. N.W. RE. 1785 Now we come to Gen. Eisenhower. Of course, he is not going to be drafted by the Democratic conven tion, even if he is nominated—and he won’t be. Mr. Truman will be. Tke will refuse to run and refuse emphatically. The campaign to draft Gen. Eisen hower is insincere, selfish, with mo tives sticking out all over. It doesn’t make common sense. Why should the general spurn a Republican nomination, when it looks like the GOP has the best chance of win ning, and then come in and take a Democratic nomination to salvage the city bosses and their local tickets and the new dealers and their frus trations? Of course, he isn’t going to do it. When the general said he would have nothing to do with politics, he meant it. He wrote his state ment taking himself out of the presidential campaign after weeks of most serious thought and con sideration. He meant every word he put in his letter. He still does. Reflect on Integrity. The continued efforts to draft the general are reflections upon his ; sincerity and integrity. He feels this deeply. All the clamor only makes him react the other way. He isn’t going to salvage the Republican Party. Neither is he going to sal vage the Democratic Party in its much greater troubles. The general is one American who wants to be left alone. Sometime WATCH REPAIRING Clock it?»i All Work Repairing Guaranteed Watcb Cnritala. 45c \JJ A r\E'C WATCHES TT AUC d DIAMONDS 1009 E St. N.W. JEWELRT the American public will realize this and leave him to lead the life he is entitled to—that of a private citi zen, taking his share in public af-. fairs, but not the presidency. It all sums up to this—Harry Tru man has a heartburn to carry on his job; Ike doesn’t want to step in. It’s as simple as all that. Brewing now is a major industry in Bolivia, which has 10 breweries. 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