Show Marquis Childs Ike Again Caught In Crossfire I Of U. U S. S Politics 1 WASHINGTON Once again General Dwight D. D Eisenhower is caught i in th crossfire of politics Fighting a war wt with diverse assortment of or allies wa was j compared to the intricacies of ot politics heri hera l lat at home It Is quite clear that what happened t to ts l General Douglas MacArthur in Wisconsin's has little or no bearing on the future of ot of i General Eisenhower In the common senst judgment of ot the American people there then are arc generals and generals One Ona fact tact that makes a big difference is that thatIs Eisenhower is only 57 51 while MacArthur Is la 68 iOn i iOn i- i On January 22 Eisenhower made macIc public his letter Jetter to Leonard V. V Finder publisher of the Manchester N. N H. H Union Leader stating that he could not accept a preal prett nomination Having sent that letter V he felt feJt like a man who has been delivered from a plague of boils boUs He believed he had bad taken himself out of consideration for good goo 1004 and all aU B Backers kers Persistent The latest EIsenhower boom Is mad made up of at le least t three choirs of hop hopeful notto not not- to say Bay desperate Eisenhower seekers Thy are as numerous as aa before They are cia clam orous and persistent The first group consists of ot those wh r believe that somehow the general can b bt prevailed upon to come to the tho rescue ot j the Democratic party Among them a are al party bosses who see overwhelming defeat ahead without him They believe the E Else Elsen hower name will be useful In sidetracking President Truman even if in the end c Gen General n- n eral Eisenhower says no more firmly thaw than before In the second group and it may w wen well be the most numerous are those who hav haVI J Jno no connection with politics They do hive have a sense of the perilous time we are living through and they long for a big man man man- j someone above the ordinary consideration of party politics Fear 0 GO GOP 0 P Reaction In the third group are those who point of view would come nearest to prevailing prevailing pre pre- on the reluctant Eisenhower They feel that If Mr Truman is the tho only thoi choice for the Democrats and if it his fortunes continue eon con at the present low ebb the j 1 at their convention in June may go goback goback o back to the pre McKinley era to find R I safe sane honest Harding who could never be suspected of any New Deal taint They argue that if this should happen then Eisenhower would feel compelled to respond to a draft from the Democrats who meet three weeks later After all hIs Itis h It t Is pointed out he did in his letter refer to some obvious and overriding reason which might persuade a professional soldier sol 01 dier to overcome his reluctance to run major political office Eye Wallace Vote Vota Nomination by the Republicans of s a stone-age stone candidate would be such an o obvious oV ob and overriding reason For one thing so the argument goes in a choice between Mr Truman and the stone-age stone man a great many voters would be driven into the Hem Henry Wallace camp And if Wallace should get tt votes the masters of Soviet Rue RUI sia sla would be convinced of a large body of or American opinion sympathetic to Soviet aims alms This is a potent argument It would carry weight with General Eisenhower who is thoroughly aware of the precarious precarious' balance by which the present so called peace j Is held together The danger Is that Eisenhower beder- beder lied and harassed will go even farther than he did before in slamming the door on a nomination That is the dilemma of those thoM in the third group which Includes i as welt well as Democrats j Copyright 1918 1948 United Feature j |