Show x X K K Wont Won't Fight I Early this year according to credible edible authority a secret poll was taken by Republican senators as to their informal the record preference for a presidential candidate Sen Arthur Hen ick of Michigan won it In the same month the senator made a statement in a national magazine in which he said he thought it was easier to runor run for or president than not riot to run He explained ex b how dim cult c. H it was to deny that one is a candi candidate t date once the story got s started tar t e d. d He mentioned the question ques tion of the draft and expressed an opinion similar to that of Roy Roberts Van of the Kansas City Star in connection connection connection tion with Gen Dwight Eisenhower namely that there had never been beena a real draft In his day Vanden berg said that of course no man would refuse the nomination if it were ere handed to him as an accomplished pushed fact He Ue concluded his bis remarks with thIs statement I 1 am not nota a candidate I do not expect or wish to be a candidate I shall seek no convention delegates or approve of others In this behalf I think my place of service Is filling out my ray tenure in the senate sen sen- ate Few mens men's stature has Increased as has as a result of his participation In international af at- fairs I think it Is fair to say that not only made nonpartisan non non- partisan foreign policy possible but that his efforts In carrying out the partisan non-partisan principle made a unified uni fied fled foreign policy itself possible A part of Influence ence In the field of foreign affairs affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs is due to the fact that he has the enthusiasm of a con con- vert vent He was once frankly an isolationist Today he has converted converted converted con con- many others and I believe believe be be- lieve Here that no single man has done more than he to break breakdown breakdown breakdown down the provincial attitude especially In the 1 which before World War II prevented prevented prevented pre pre- vented America from taking leadership in world affairs affairs- leadership which might have postponed if not entirely prevented prevented prevented pre pre- C vented the war I do not believe that he is actually eliminated from the nomination but we can be certain he will not fight for the job He had the high vote at atthe the Republican convention of 1940 when the Willkie blitz struck support of parti bi-parti- sal policy doesn't mean that he C gives a blank check to the adminis He favors the Marshall plan and aid to Greece and Turkey but he refused to recognize that aid as the Truman Doctrine Insisting It C was not a doctrine at all C I |