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But they haveifew true organization, wd reletively little following.
Their main argument - thet they can carry wavering Democrats = has
been proven false already in three elections,
32, Despite the outward appearances of unity given yester=
day by the leaders, the rift in the Republican Party goes extremely
deep. The bittemess of the Talt—people, especially on the lowest
échelons of the orgenization, is much graver than it seems, Many
of them spoke yesterduy evening of “going fishing” during the co=
ming campaign. If this can not be remedied in time, if the organi=
zation, as it seemed yesterday, is going to be unwilling to work
night and day for Eisenhower, then the outlook of the Generel is
dim. Even Taft, who will loyally support the General, will not be
fuliy able to remedy this situation 3 only Bisenhower himself would
be able to do 809
4 2. On this crusisl question, Eisenhower has sjom yester=
day am infinitely heelthier sense than his political advisors. After
ail, at the bottom of his heart, Eisenhower is closer to Taft, than
to the Dewey people around him, It was Hisenhower who wanted to —
have Taft as his Vice-President 3 end failing to get Taft, he would
have been happy to get Senator Everett Direksen of Illinois on
his ticket, the man who hed made tue greatest oratorieal impression
on the floor of the convention aad who had put Senator Taft in
nomination, It was the Dewey = Sprague ~ Brownell group which pre¬
vented the Gemeral from doing this, and mace every effort to make
him chose a man 2rpn their restricted circle, like Duff of Penngyis
Venia or Warren of Culifomia, Here it was Bisenhower who refused,
So Kixon was finally chosen as a compromise.
58. During the Convention end in the hours since, Eisen=
hower has shown himself in such = light, that, in the oponion of
this observer, he is a man of political acumen, The question is 3
if Eisenhower is strong enough, now that he has the nomination, to
get rid of the Dewey tutelage, and to run his om compaign with
the best men he knows, he cun repair his battered fences and get
out the vote, Then he has an excefiiient chance. On the other hand,
af he Goes not get rid of the Dewey=Lodge group, his cutlook will
be Gime
62, Senator Nixon, Eisenhowers running-mete, is a good
man. He is not one of the Dewey crowd?, He is a good, young, hard
working Senator from California, whose carreer was based on his
courageous stand against Comminiam : it is Nixon's personal achieve-=
tent, that Alger Hiss was convicted, Since then it was he who
made, together with Senator Mundt, the Mundt-Nixon Bill, which is
the legel basis of the present drive on Communism. He is an out-=
spoken foe of Socialism and a pronounced Conservative. He has a
very fine military past. There is one interesting thing in his past,
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