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The Republican Convention is only a few days off. , Already
Party-Headquarters are being moved into the windy city, The main
candidates of the Republicans have both announced, that contrary
to previous statements by Eisenhower they both would be in Chicago
before the opening of the Convention, In the field the last Delegates
to hold out are ‘submitted to high pressure tactics. And the press,
mostly in the Eisenhower comer, is carrying one false story after
another, one distortion after another to break down the Taft move¬
ment. In fact even respecta ble, usually pompous papers are taking
on the form of Hearst's yellow journalism, in the desperate hope
to impress someone - a manoeuvre which is certainly lost on the-hard¬
boiled Delegates, who as professional politicians have already seen
all that and some more, and hence are not easily impressede
The picture of confusion, whieh we reported earlier, has
not subsided, It would be impossible to any conscientious observer,
to foretell what will happen in Chicago. But while this is so, there
are a few facts which are worth pondering, and which might at least
be straws in the wind,
The first of these is, that Eisenhower has done himself no
good by returning. He is today weaker then he p#f¢7f was a few weeks
ago. His statements, a mixture of 01d- guard reaction and brazen
demagogy, coupled with a painful show of ignorance, has put him in
bad with many former well-wishers. He has permitted himself to be.
fully menoeuvered by Taft. The fact is, that Taft knows a hundred
times more than Eisenhower on domestic issues. Bisenhower is com=
pletely ignorant on these. On the other hand the foreign policy
plank of Eisenhower is stronger, He has a following whose views are
united on the issues, and hence can present them in black-and-white.
Tart on the other hand has a following which is widely split on foreign
issues, and hence must make carefully balanced speaches to satisfy
many divergent wishes, If Eisenhower had carried out his adviser({s
policy, namely to stick to foreign policy and ignore the domestic
issues, his position would have been hard to assail. Faced with
this very painful dilemma, Taft did some superb manoeuveringe He ada
mitted, in fact suggested, that Mr. Foster Dulles be taken to draft
the Foreign Policy plank of the Republican Party, Dulles is Eisenhower's
chief foreign policy man, Thus Taft was able to establish a foreign
policy by=partisan attitudeand to silence the issue effectively till
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