Evening star., 1952-06-05
The Political Mill r !
Gen. Eisenhower Gives
Answers at Abilene
He's No Follower Of Acheson
Or Afruid to Attack Trumun
By Gould Lincoln

ABILENE, KanS., June 5.-Gen. Eisen-
hower'S opening gun in his personal
campaign for the presidency pleased his
supporters. He answered lot of ques-
tions, which his opponents. both Re-
publican and Democratic, have been
asking, declaring their pain because they
did not know where he stands.
In his Abilene speech, the general
made it crystal clear he is no New Deal
er or Fair Dealer: He is no me-tooer.
nor is he Democrat of any kind or
description.
Again and again his Republican oppo-
nentS have declared unequivocally that
the general would be unable to attack
the Truman and Roosevelt administra-
tions because he owed them 80 much"
Now he is on record as critic of the
foreign policy of both Franklin Delano
Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
He said of the Yalta agreements, en-
tered into by Mr.. Roosevelt: Americans
instinctively and properly dread the kind
Of secrecy that surrounded Yalta."
And he clearly had no use for the
mistaken judgment Of the Roosevelt
and Truman administrations which per-
the Communists. He said: China was
lost to the free world in one of the
greatest international disasters of our
time-a type of tragedy that must not
be repeated"
His opposition had pictured Ike as
a blind follower of Secretary of State
Dean Acheson. This doesn't sound like
it, not even to deaf ears. Gen. Eisen-
hover, on his tremendously important
tours of duty in Europe, put the whole
country in his debt-the Roosevelt and
Truman administrations included. He
doesn't owe either of the Democratic
Presidents a thing-except an oppor-
tunity to do military Job superbly.
His opposition has cried out he would
be in no position to attack the Truman
administration on the corruption found
in the Bureau Of Internal Revenue. or
speak of mink coats" "deepfreezers,"
etc. Yet he tackled corruption in Gov
ernment right off the bat.
The general is against bureaucracy
and the concentration of government
and all powers in Washington, D. c. He
doesn't believe that you can cure every
situation by passing a law. He believes
that industrial strife should be worked
out by labor and management, without
running to the Federal Government on
every occasion. Nor does he propose. if
he becomes President, to see the United
States exhaust itself by pouring billions
of dollars into other countries-although
he firmly believes that this country
should do all it safely can to help those
nations still free Of Communist Dictator
ship to rebuild themselves economically
and militarily.
He's frankly for foreign policy of
cooperation with friendly nations. and
fully believes that the United States
must play leading part in world af-
fairs. now and in the future.
In fact. careful reading of Gen.
Eisenhower's speech reveals that he said
a mouthful. 1t may be expected that he
will state in even more explicit terms
his position as his campaign proceeds.
The generals speech was states
manlike presentation. 1t will be crit
icized as meaningless statement, how
ever, by his opponents. That, however.
is something that will be taken with
grain of salt by the millions who saw
and listened to the general throughout
the country.