Show TH THE A Plot Strategy n MAN who wasn't there there General General A EIsenhower was t e main topic of ot discussion at a meeting of Taft President advisers in hi WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington recently Cincinnati's Ben Tate head of Standard Brands and a top Taft backer made it plain that Taft forces will throw the book at Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- Eisenhower hower if it he enters the GOP presidential presidential presidential race Remarked the usually jovial Tate If the general gets in the campaign campaign campaign cam cam- hell he'll have to take it like any any other candidate Just because hes he's been in uniform doesn't give him any immunity from the searching searching searching search search- ing examination cross of voters In fact continued Tate Ive met Republicans who said they had Information about the general that should be made public I didn't discuss discuss discuss dis dis- cuss it with them but I know Republicans Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans generally want to know whether he really belongs to the party and where he stands on Issues is issues issues is- is sues that are arc important to cans The question was also raised as to whether Eisenhower ver is really a candidate I understand remarked Dave Ingalls of Cleveland who Is Tafts Taft's cousin that he be has the bug This caused Senator Taft to remark remark remark re re- re- re mark that the general sent word to him that the only thing that concerned concerned concerned con con- him about the presidential I election was his program for Eur Eur- ope He indicated continued the senator that if he had assurance of a reasonable degree of Independence independence independence dence in forming policies for the defense of Western Europe he would not interfere in the campaign anc and andI j election I I Smear Campaign Senator Taft probably doesn't know this but some of his cohorts already have launched the smear smear- E Eisenhower campaign hinted at by Ben Tate First attempt to scare the general genera out of the presidential primaries came from Westbrook last las week when he reported Ikes Ike's alleged alleged alleged al al- al- al flirtation with an English WAC during the war and warned that tha President Truman would use thi this to wipe up the general Actually certain Republicans no not Truman are more likely to use this against Eisenhower In fact they've already started It happens happen that Truman and Eisenhower no not only are friends but Truman wa was deeply grateful to Ike for staying out of the 1948 race when Ike could have had the Democratic nomination nomina tion for the asking So if Eisenhower really wants to run this time Its It's a fairly good bet that Truman wont Meanwhile the Westbrook Peg Peg- lers and other smear Eisenhower artists might look up the the below I belt tactics used against Grover Grove Grovert t Cleveland They elected him Jessup and Ike Those who watched the senate senat hearings on Ambassador Philip Jessup Jessup Jessup Jes Jes- sup detected a smear Eisenhower undertone in that proceeding also For Jessup is a Columbia University ty professor who not only served o on Eisenhower's faculty but received receive a letter from fron Ike defending him against the McCarthy proCommunist pro attack Seater Seated across the table from Jessup during the senate hearings hearIngs hearings hear hear- ings was a Republican who has vowed to stop Eisenhower and who has staked his entire political political cal future on Taft Owen Tart Owen Brewster Brew- Brew Brewster Brewster ster of Maine It was Brewster who led the attack at tack on Jessup inside senate senat committee Stassen's Memory Senators who listened to Harol HarolE E E. Stassen stumble through the Jessup Jessup Jessup Jes Jes- sup hearings say that Stassen apparently apparently apparently ap ap- didn't count on the State Stat department releasing the full secre secret transcript of the roundtable table conference conference con ference over far eastern policy Stassen testified for example that Jessup brought up the of recognizing Communist China o othe orthe or orthe the third day of the conference an that the State department came ou out in favor of recognition The transcript however shows that the th question of recognizing China was brought up not by Jessu but by t the h e State department Charles Butterworth not on th the third day but the first day Furthermore Furthermore Further more Butterworth set forth t h t State departments department's position clearly which was against recognizing thRed th thI Red regime I Boyle Partner I It was Maines Maine's courageous Sen SenI Margaret Chase Smith who firs firS' I I asked the Hoey committee to in inI investigate a key associate of Demo Democratic Democratic I cratic Chairman ex-Chairman Bill Boyle In a senate speech she said II suggest that the subcommittee ca cal Mr l Daniel J. J Hanlon and ask hin If he was In any way with the legal controversy with th tho government over t the h e America President line Une It Hanlon was a form former er Ct law partner r of at Boyle |