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Draft of Eisenhower
Seen as Strategy to
Eliminate Truman
Convention Could Turn
To Others if General Is
Nominated, Refuses to Run
By David Lawrence
Rome Democratic leaders who
want to draft Gen. Elsenhower de
spite his explicit declaration that
he "could not accept" believe
they can persuade him to change
his mind when confronted with an
actual nomination.
There Is. however, a deeper strat
egy than this in the effort to bring
about the nomination of Gen. Eisen
hower in the face of his unwilling
ness to run. The Idea is to put his
name Into the balloting along with
that of President Truman. If the
Eisenhower nomination Is actually
made, it means the elimination of
Mr. Truman. If, then, Gen. Eisen
hower formally tenders a letter de
clining to accept—something that
can happen in a few hours—the
convention can turn to other names.
But it would be unlikely to turn back
to Mr. Truman. The convention
would then be wide open.
It has been suggested by a few
wags around here—maybe they are
Republican wags—that if all the
Democrats are interested in is a
well-advertised name, without know
ing particularly what his view's hap
pen to be on public questions, then
why don’t they select Bing Crosby?
Or why not Spencer Tracy, who
did a masterful job of running for
office in the movie play, ‘‘The State
of the Union?”
Left-Wing Strategy.
Some Democrats are making a
shambles of their nominating con
test. They are using the Eisenhower
name primarily to get rid of Presi
dent Truman, who, for reasons of
his own, stubbornly refuses to with
draw’. Every day, however, that
the recurrent drive for Gen. Eisen
hower keeps going makes it evident
that Mr. Truman is not considered
by the Democrats themselves to be
a good enough candidate to make
the race.
The idea wnich the "ieit-wing“
Democrats have nurtured for some
time is that once Gen. Eisenhower
is drafted and offered the nomina
tion it wouldn't matter so much If
he declined, because the convention
might then be stampeded for Jus
tice William O. Douglas of the Su
preme Court of the United States,
who more than any other man to
day, except possibly Henry Wallace,
represents the radical wing of the
party. It could be that if Justice
Douglas were named Mr. Wallace
might consider that he had won his
battle against President Truman
and that he could, therefore, sup
port. the Democratic ticket again.
It would send cold shivers up and
down the Republican spinal cord if
Mr. Wallace withdrew and if Justice
Douglas were nominated and the
Democratic ticket had the enthusi
astic support of Gen. Eisenhower.
There Is always a possibility that
President Truman might turn the
tables on the opposition within the
party by offering a man to succeed
himself. That man might be Gen.
Marshall. While the Secretary of
State has said he could not be
drafted for political office, he would
not refuse a request proffered him
hv the President of the United
States. The name of George Mar
shall is well advertised, too.
Spectacle Not Inspiring.
The Democratic convention may
wind up with Mr. Truman as its
nominee for President and Justice
Douglas as Vice President. The
drive to draft Gen. Eisenhower has
kicked up a controversy unprece
dented in party history. Here is a
man who might have been the Re
publican nominee in a year which
mast observers have considered
would bring a Republican victory,
and the same man is now being
urged to accept a Democratic nom
ination to save a party and a group
of officeholders who just simply
don’t want to give up their jobs on
the Federal payroll.
The spectacle is not an inspiring
one. If the effort to get Gen. Eisen
hower to run had been built up
around a particular Issue of funda
mental importance, such as the
Republican tendency to revert to
Isolationism or Ihe "straddle" plank
on foreign policy adopted by the
recent convention at Philadelphia,
thp wholp situation would be on a
higher plane today—and maybe
Gen Eisenhower would have sensed
a call to duty. But a call to save
Frank Hague in New Jersey or the
political basses of other State ma
chines isn't very closely related to
either a national or an interna
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This Changing World
Marshall’s Note to Soviet on Berlin
Likened to ^lull’s to Tokyo in Nov., 1941
By Constantine Brown !
Some “nervous” diplomatic quar
ters in Washington liken secretary
of State Marshall's note to Russia
on the Berlin blockade to that sent
by Secretary Hull to Tokyo in No
vember, 1941.
The American Government did
not expect a favorable answer from
the Japanese
warlords any
more than it be
lieves today that
the Kremlin will
adopt a concili
atory attitude as
a result of the
; combined pro
tests of the
United States,
B/r i t a i n and
Prance.
That Berlin
may become the
1948 Pearl Har
bor is consid
ered a definite
Constantine Brown.
possibility. The principal differ
ence is, however, that while in No
vember, 1941, we were asking the
Japanese to refrain from taking
advantage of a war-created situa
tion, today we are asking the Rus
sians merely to live up to formal
agreements reached at Potsdam, at
a time when they were our allies.
Soviet Thesis on Berlin.
The Soviet government's thesis
now is that Berlin is a city in the
Soviet zone of Germany. We con
tend that it is the capital of the
four victorious powers until a peace,
treaty with the former Reich is con
cluded. We have definite treaty
rights in Berlin. In our dispute
with Japan we had little to go on
except an old treaty which the
Japanese considered obsolete be
cause of conditions created by the
outbreak of World War II.
The belief that the Soviet govern
ment may use one of its many
tricks—such as the creation of a
new German puppet government in
Leipzig, or Communist outbreaks in
Berlin—to compel the Western na
tions to evacuate that city is greater
in London and Paris than it is in
Washington.
In spite of official declarations to
the contrary, the general staffs of
the Western European nations fear
that Russia will go berserk before
the end of this year. This explains
the pressing requests from London.
Paris, Brussels and The Hague that
America agree officially to support
these powers which signed the I
Brussels alliance last,March.
They hope that such a commit
ment by the United States will give
the Russians food for thought and
slow down their expansionist ac
tions in Europe.
No thinking person can accuse
the Western nations of desiring an
other armed conflict. All of them
right now are far less prepared for
a war than at any time in history.
All the Western peoples are hungry j
for peace. The maximum they can
do is fight for their own freedom,
if they are attacked. And Western
European military leaders know
that such a fight would be hope
less unless they have the active
support of the United States.
United States Receptive to Pleas.
Washington is receptive to these
pleas for help, but because of the
political situation in our own coun
try, in the midst of a presidential
election campaign, there is little
desire to discuss the matter pub
licly.
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer,
planning chief in the Army Depart
ment, two weeks ago was sent on a
special mission to the Western Eu
ropean countries and to the Middle
East to study the military situa
tion on the spot. He is expected to
return to Washington on July 18,
when he will make a comprehen
sive report to his superiors about
the existing defenses of those coun
tries and the efficacy of their armed
forces.
We are now providing Greece and
Turkey with the war materials to
organize their defense against pos
sible aggression from the East. But
nothing has been done to provide
for defense along the Rhine, which
is the natural line of retreat for
some 200,000 Americans if the Rus
sians decide to march.
Ordnance specialists in Washing
ton maintain that we must have
partial industrial mobilization to
enable us to honor any promises w$
make to provide Western European
countries with military equipment.
At the present time our factories
can provide only for the needs of
our own limited rearmament pro
gram.
But Gen. Wedemeyer's report will
clarify the general picture and de
termine the attitude of Washington
toward the request of the Western
powers.
Sergeant Tells of'Iron Curtain'
On Divorce by Russian Wife
By Wolloce E. Clayton
A story of ft love affair with In
ternational complications—and no
sign of a happy ending—was un
folded today by a young technical
sergeant, stationed at the Bolling
Air Force Base.
He is Sergt. William V. Phillips,
28, who was informed yesterday by
a newsman that his Russian wife,
mother of his 5-month-old son, had
filed suit for divorce. No other noti
fication had come to him.
A routine dispatch from Moscow
related that Antonina S. Phillips.
24, had moved to obtain a divorce.
This was the only word the soldier
had received from her in six weeks.
! Then a letter from the girl he met
while stationed with an American
military mission in the Russian cap
ital informed him that divorce was
unthinkable.
Suggested Move Himself.
Sergt. Phillips himself unhappily
had suggested the move, after his
' repeated efforts to obtain visas for
his auburn-haired wife and the son
he has never seen had proved
futile.
"None of our business,” said the
Soviet Foreign Office, after Ambas
sador Smith had asked that the
small family be allowed to come
to this country.
"I've tried to help other boys in
your position, but to no avail. I’m
sorry,” wrote Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
when she was asked to help.
"I wrote my wife some time ago
and told her what I had done,” said
Sergt. Phillips. “Then I asked her
if she wanted a divorce. She said
she didn't. I can’t really under
stand this.
Shipped Back to Moscow.
The Air Force supply clerk, who
met Antonina during the war, said
he requested Moscow duty after hos
tilities were over. He was shippef
back to the Russian capital in July,
1946. Five months lated they were
married in a "30-second” civil cere
mony.
“A church ceremony isn’t recog
nized." he said. "But for 15 rubles—
about $1.25—a clerk reads some
words very rapidly. We kept it a
secret until a month before I left.
Had we announced it any sooner,
11 would have been transferred, but
! quickly. I’ve been told it is a State
Department policy.”
Fears of action by Russian au
thorities and possible denial of exit
visas did not deter the young couple
from planning a happy life in Sergt.
Phillips’ home, Pen Argyl, Pa.
"The Russians passed a ban on
marriage to Americans about two
months after our ceremony,” he
said. "We hoped maybe they’d let
all those married before the law
was passed leave the country, but
no dice.”
Courtship Going Everywhere.
Courtship in Russia, during the
days of World War U, anyway, was
much the same as anywhere, said
the soldier.
“We ice skated in the winter, went
on picnics in the summer and spent
our evenings at the ballet and
opera.” he said. ‘‘As far as I know,
we were only followed once.” 4
Sergt. Phillips had planned to get
out of the Air Force a year ago and
get a clerical Job at his home. But
his wife still was in Russia, so he
re-inlisted.
I thought I could get duty in
Washington and stay close to the
negotiations,” he said. "And I had
a half-hope—a futile one—I might
get sent back to Russia.”
Sergt. Phillips declined to voice
any opinions on Russia, communism
or his personal feelings toward both.
“I don’t want to do anything
that'll get her in trouble,” he said.
“You don’t know what It's like.
You don't know what harm I might
do.”
Because he confessed, he still has
hopes that someday the family will
be reunited. Someday, he dreams,
his son will grow up in a sleepy
Pennsylvania community. Someday,
his wife and son will be Americans.
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Anti-Truman Forces Will Strive to End
To Have Party Ditch the President
By Doris Fleeson
The refusal of influential anti
Truman Democrats to accept Gen.
Eisenhower’s latest turndown as
final does not mean they don’t be
lieve him. _
But they are
determined t o
strive to the end
to ditch the
President and it
will be part ol
their strategy to
continue to ar
gue that Gen.
Eisenhower can
be drafted. Actu
ally they knew
late last Tues
day that he in
tended to issue
another state
ment.
Doris Floeoon.
They attrlDUte tne aeiay 10 iue
ubiquitous George Allen, who is
either Machiavelli's legitimate heir
or one of the most maligned "just a
pal” friends in recent history. Their
information is that Mr. Allen, who
visited Gen. Eisenhower last week
end, tried to delay the general’s
announcement until a strategic mo
ment during the convention. The
harassed general apparently chose
otherwise.
Anti-Truman leaders now concede
in their more candid moments that
they don't know where they are
going but they will keep going. This
may be bad politics or ungenerous
or hazardous—it happens to be a
fact, such is the depth of their feel
ing against Mr. Truman.
Elder Statesman Needed.
Probably what, the party stands
most in need of now is elder states
men to force the President, the
South and the dissenters into dis
cussions of what all this m^ins to
their future. No such disinterested
persons loom on the Democratic
horizon; it appears that the family
quarrel must run its course. The
Democrats at Philadelphia will not
be the first members of the human
race to defeat their own interests
if they do.
The new caucus call signed by
James Roosevelt, Jacob M. Arvey
and others declares that, the need
for a strong candidate is as great
as it ever was and asserts that
Gen. Eisenhower will submit to a
real draft.
The next few days should tell'
whether that caucus will develop
sinews or whether the whole move
ment will fade away.
It appears already that Supreme
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a satisfactory compromise. This
will be a great relief t« the court
itself, which has begun to chafe
under its reputation as a deep freeze
from which liberal Democrats can
be hauled forth, thawed and dished
up as candidates at the pleasure of
certain New Dealers.
However, the justice's right to
run without resigning from the
court will be upheld by the Chief
Justice and senior judges if it should
turn out that way. The law per
mits it, according to their careful
Investigation.
Hughes Resigned in 1912.
The former Chief Justice, Mr.
Hughes, resigned as an associate
justice to run for President in 1912;
he was defeated by Woodrow Wil
son, and it was eight years before
he was reappointed to the court.
His example convinces some judi
cial friends of Justice Douglas that
Americans don't want Supreme
Court justices to run for political
office; that they feel it belittles the
court. This has been put before
Justice Douglas himself.
Politicos raise another question:
Why does Gen. Eisenhower ob
stinately refuse to use the accepted
formula for absolute refusal to run
for office, which is Gen. Sherman's
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Tagged for Trip
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By Henry McLemore
When I was a little fellow and
just beginning to travel—usually
somewhere in Georgia to visit rel
atives I had been wished upon—
Mama always
tagged me be
fore leaving me
in the day coach
of the wood
burning train.
She would
plump me down
on the green
plush seat, warn
me not to stick
my head out of
the window, give
the porter a
quarter to watch
out for me, and
then pin a tag
on mv shirt.
Henry MeLemore.
"Please let this boy off at States
boro, Georgia,” a typical tag read.
“Let This Boy Off At—”
Well, Mama had better get to
New York quick and start making
out tags. Tags that read like this:
"Let this boy off at Shannon.”
“Let this boy off at Dublin.”
"Let this boy off at London.”
"Let this boy off at Istanbul.”
"Let this boy off at Damascus."
“Let this boy off at Karachi.”
“Let this boy off at New Delhi.”
Mama’ll be tired of writing tags
by now, but she’ll haye to keep
going.
She’ll have to make sure that I
get off at Calcutta, Bangkok, Ma
nila, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo,
Honolulu and San Francisco.
Because Jean and I are going
around the world by Pan American'
Clipper.
Asked why we are going around
the world, we have never been able
to hit on a completely satisfactory
answer. I reckon the real truth
is that we both like to go places—
besides, the newest dog track in
Florida has just opened in my home
town for a summer meeting, and
after a week of constant attendance
I realized that a trip around the
world would be a thrift measure.
Four losing daily doubles and two
losing quinellas, and we can be in
Bangkok with the elephants, ahead
of the game.,
Know Our L and L.
Too, Jean and I are hearty ad
mirers of longitude and latitude
She is crazy about longitude and I,
like many husbands,’am crazy about
latitude. If you stay at home all the
time you only get tp know your own
L and L. On this trip we should
qualify as experts on Latty and
Longy, as we call them for short.
Further, if you stay close to home
you never meet anything but nice
time—standard time, daylight sav
ing time, Rocky Mountain time.
Central time and Pacific Coast
time. These are all times that are
polite—tip their hats, curtsy and
give you a nickel for a cup of
coffee.
But if you travel—if you go
around the world—you meet Green
wich Mean Time. Here is a snarling,
hissing, biting, clawing - time. It
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days of the week. It is not called
"Meaii Time” for nothing. It will
sneak up and bite you, if you don't
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good for a resident of the United
States to travel around the world.
If he stays home, he takes too many
things for -granted. He accepts,
with no special appreciation, what
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him. It is good for an American to
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world lives.
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