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Le — page two 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 prevented 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, i 64. }
