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Fehe6.Sert.52e — page two = it is due to this influence, that it has been decided to give Senator Taft a major role in the campaign, asking him to speak on many prominent occasions especially in the Tafi-lend £ such as Ohio, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Indiana, Illinois. This is aimed at getting the old gusrd Republican organization into action, which is absolutely indispensable in order to deliver the votes end to give these states to Elsenhower, This is especially impor tent, since the bitteress in these states is still very great and doubts are still expressed whether the organizational Repub= licens will really worke It is this Eisenhower worry which has aiso made that Senator Everett Dirksen, Taft's most loyal suppor= ter end an intimate friend of Chicago's Col. Robert MacComick, has been given a prominent role in the Eisenhower campaign, despite the fact thet it was Dirksen who was the most vocsi foe of Bisenhower& backers, What we see therefore today in the Bisenhower camp, is a complete change of leadership : the seubord interna= tionalist set , the Dewey - Sprague group is in the background 3 and Eisenhower now afpears widely surrounded by the men whom he defeated in Chicago. In this whole endeavour there is only one point on whibh Bisenhower is having a lot of trouble 3 the question of Senators McCarthy and Jenner, both standing for re-election in Wisconsin and Indiena respectively. Both men are distasteful to Bisenhower, beatmise of their attacks on General Murshall, whom Eisenhower genuinely reveres, On the other hand, despite the attituce of the press, MeCarthy has wide popular following, much wie der then is generally believed. Hence the first idea of Busenhower, nemely to take a stand against McCarthy and Jenner was ruied out by his a@visors. On the other hand, the Democrats sre certain to raise the issue and to try to smoke Eisenhower out. It is understood, that in order to hedge on the issue, Summerfield has suggested that Eisenhower, without saying enything, should simply abstain from cempaigning in the two men's states, and leave the task there to Nixon and to Tafte This is also decided, since in case of a Repub= lican victory in the Senate, MeCarthy is going to get 4 very high assignement due to his seniority, and hence might be 4 thorm in the flenk of the administration, if he hae beentreated to badlye While thus Bisenhower swings to the right, Stevenson is going to the left, trying to gain the supporters of Kefeuver and Harriman, whomhe defeated in Chicagoe As Stevenson had the Southern support, he is soft—pedalling these issues 3; this is also the red son why Senator Spariman has a lesser rome than his Republican counterparte In Springfield it is rumoured, that Stevenson has promised Harriman the post of Secretary of State in cage of his election. Furthermore both the personal campaign Manager of Stevensén, Wilson Wyatt and one of his main speéxh writers| and head jú f { i 23.
