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2 For THE 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 movement. 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-hardboiled 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 AQUYS2 "Aen i ORs MGM ENOUAE ENE of a RB? BE eRe asBaedy ee
