Show M Go Round err o- o our Campaign Trains h 1 Reflect Moods j Of Rival Camps l 1 1 B Drew Pearson By oI V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON While G Governor o 0 v e ern r n o 0 r i Deweys Dewey's campaign train operates operate with clockwork precision even to the exact timing of or the moment when Paul Lockwood Lockwood Lock Lock- wood takes the Dewey manuscript up to the thedoes rostrum President Truman's train does docs not Its It's much more helter hit and miss hot and human Some of ot th the jealousies and backbiting of the palace g guard card are arc all too obvious For Instance the president did not know until the last minute that Judge j jSam Sam of New York wasn't going j to be on his special train Shortly before fore 1 leaving Washington Truman asked hIs j a aids 1 happened to Sam 1 He promised prom- prom J j out during the campaign to help Why J isn't he here herc 7 j writer Speech-writer Clark Clifford gave 1 noncommittal answer 5 I I 1 guess Sam doesn't have time for ua us j jany an any more he said i J Real fact however was that Rosen- Rosen man did not run out on en Truman He was r. r ready and willing to go goo on the trip but others around Truman didn't want him I It was who helped prepare i ithe the presidents president's acceptance speech at the Philadelphia convention p pro probably r o b a b l 1 Y the 1 I greatest Truman ever delivered j also had a hand in the message to the special congress has advised Truman todo to todo do more ad fibbing told him to lay off J the civil rights Issue during the campaign It has already done enough damage to the party cautioned 1 However Clark Clifford Truman 1 J i iother other chief ghost writer and John Snyder Say Say- 1 der secretary of the treasury who is j jealous of anyone with too much presidential presidential influence haven't been fond of at j Somehow or other it was arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged that he not be invited on the campaign campaign cam cam- paig-n paig train G GOP 0 P Draft Record Truman Record Truman advisers also cant can't make up their minds as to whether they should go after the on their war records The president gave a veiled hint of this 1 In his California speech in which he told i 1 how when a senator he had offered hU hf 1 i services to Chief of Staff Stat Marshall in any capacity Truman also took a 8 j crack at those who sought farm deferments deferment i and remarked that none of the men around aroundhim him had sought draft exemption i Behind this speech was the advice of 1 various to give the out all facts fact on Governor Deweys Dewey's farm Carm deferment at t a j I time when he was not in public office but was practicing law in New York Truman's advisers also wanted him to call the roll of ot the four men on the Dewey Dewcy J brain trust and point out that though of draft age none saw war service That was what was behind the presidents president's presidents president's prest Sl-j Sl dents dent's reference to his own war record in j California 1 Silent Atomic Bombardier Inside Bombardier Inside fact fact is that Major General Leslie Groves wartime boss of or the bomb atomic-bomb project was of ot little help to the house American un-American activIties activities committee when it summoned him behind closed doors to tell what he knew about atomic spies The probing probing- congressmen tried every trick to wangle information out of him even invited him to speak off the record But Groves roves sidestepped all hot questions by reading the presidents president's directive that no officer active active or reserve may give gie information to congress Copyright 1948 by Bell Syndicate |