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Show D?fW PEARSON Dewey Warned About Dulles Tf ISN'T being advertised, but Gov- ernor Dewey has received some 3rm but friendly, advice from high-jp high-jp Republicans to think twice before be-fore he appoints John Foster Dulles as his secretary of state. The opposition to Dulles is partly on the ground that he is one of Wall Street's most prominent lawyers, partly because of the disastrous role Dulles played in selling the Ameri-:an Ameri-:an public on the now defaulted German bonds prior to 1938 when leading American economists were warning that they would be worthless worth-less paper. One high-up Republican who recently re-cently cautioned Dewey about Dulles was Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep, N. H.), chairman of the powerful senate appropriations committee. Bridges raised a new objection, namely Dulles' recommendation of Alger Hiss, alleged Communist, to be chairman of the Carnegie Peace Foundation. The directors of the foundation, Bridges recalled, were lukewarm about Hiss but were pressured into the appointment by Dulles. "Yes, he did make a mistake on that one," admitted Dewey. "And he's made too many mistakes," mis-takes," urged Senator Bridges. "He made a terrible mistake regarding the Nazis. We just can't afford to have a man as secretary of state who makes mistakes. The problem of peace is too delicate." Bridges also reminded Dewey that Dulles might have difficulty in being be-ing confirmed by the senate. "We hope to give you a real majority ma-jority in the senate in November," the New Hampshire senator explained. ex-plained. "But we may be darn lucky to keep what we've got. If so, and if only two or three Republicans Re-publicans oppose Dulles, then the Democrats will jump in en masse to fight his confirmation. They'll love it." Dewey countered that Foreign Minister Molotov liked Dulles, and that ironing out our Russian problems prob-lems was all important." "He's the only man in America Ameri-ca who can get along with Molotov," Molo-tov," Dewey told Bridges. "And, I suppose," quipped Bridges, "that Molotov is a good Republican and wants us to win in November." |