Show wont fight early this year according to 1 edible authority a secret poll was taken by republican senators as to their informal off the record preference for a presidential candidate sen arthur henr tl enrIck lck of michigan won it in the same month the senator made a statement in a national magazine in which he said he thought it ft was easier to run tor for president than not to run he ex how dafft cult it was to deny that one is a candi date once the story got s started t a r t e d he fie mentioned the question of the draft y ss and espre expressed ed an opinion similar to the that I 1 of roy roberts of the kansas city star in connection with gen dwight eisenhower Elsen hower namely that there had never been a real draft in his day vanden 01 course no man would refuse the nomination it if it were handed to him as an accomplished fact act he fie concluded his remarks with this his statement 1 I am not a candidate I 1 do not expect or mish to be a candidate I 1 shall see seek k no convention delegates or approve of others in this behalf I 1 think my place of service is filling out my tenure la in the senate few mens stature has increased as Vanden bergs has as a result of his participation in intern international atonal affairs I 1 think it Is fair to say that not only made nonpartisan foreign policy possible but that his efforts in carrying out the nonpartisan non partisan principle made a unified foreign policy itself possible A part of Vanden bergs influence embe in the field of foreign foreleg n affairs Is due to the fact that he be has the enthusiasm of a con vert ile he was once frankly an isolationist today he has c converted on many others and I 1 believe that no single me man n has done more than he to bir break eak down the provincial attitude especially in the Midd lewest which before world war 11 II prevented america from taking leadership in world affairs leadership ahl which ch mj might g ht h have ave postponed it II not entirely prevented the war I 1 do not believe that he is actually eliminated from the nomination but we can be certain he will not fight tor for the job he had the high vote at the republican convention of 1840 1940 when the willkie blitz struck Vanden bergs support of bi san s n policy mean that he gives a blank check to the adain admin administration S tra tion he favors the marshall plan and aid to greece and turkey but he refused to recognize that aid as the truman doctrine insisting it was not a doctrine at all |