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Eisenhower
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ator Mccarthy. The general wa.
asked whether he intends to sup.
port Senator Mccarthy who. a.
the reporter put it, had in effect
ACCUSED Gen. Marshall of being 6
TRAITOR.
Gen. Eisenhower replied:
This is a two-party system
and you have got to have single
party authority in Washington
You have got to talk to people
maybe you are going to have tt
reason with them-and leac
them into other lines of think.
ing"
Conference Starts Quietly.
The news conference, startet
out quietly enough, with Gen
Eisenhower relaxed behind hi
desk. But he soon was in from
of it pacing up and down.
He said he had not changed hi.
mind one iota about the need fol
routing any Communists out O.
Government. But he still be.
lieves, he said, it can be dont
without damaging the reputation.
of innocent people.
II am not going to support any.
thing that smacks to me of un.
AmreicaniSm and that in.
cludes any kind of thing that look.
to me like unjust damaging of rep.
utation, where the man has MOI
the usual recourse of law"
Democratic Reaction.
The press conference got quicl
results in Washington. A Demo.
cratic leader accused Gen. Eisen.
hover of placing party RESPONSE.
lbility above any questions of right
or wrong"
'This is peculiar way to leac
a crusade" said a statement by
Representative Michael j. Kirwar
of Ohio, chairman of the Demo
cratic National Congressional Com.
mittee.
Representative Kirwan's Sblast
was one of volley of hcots ex-
changed by leaders of both par
ties amid confusion over the Nc
Carthy row.
Others in Act.
Mr.. Kirwan and Senator Mon
roney of Oklahoma, chairman OF
the Democratic Campaign Speak
ers' Bureau, quickly got in the act
Senator Mundt of South Dako-
ia, Senator Monroney,s counter
part in the Republican organiza-
ton, was just as quick to fire back.
Senator Monroney said he did
not see how Gen. Eisenhower
could swallow" Senator Nc
Carthy's criticism of Gen. Mar
shall.
Senator Mundt accused the
Democrats Of harboring a "Ges-
tapo concept"
Mr.. Kirwan took up Gen. Eisen-
hower's heated statement that he
had no patience with people who
criticize his former Army boss and
benefactor, Gen. Marshall.
"The general believes that Gen.
Marshall is a great patriot" Mr..
Kirwan said in a statement, $50
he says he will support Senator
Mccarthy, who has sought to be-
smirch the character of Gen.
Marshall.
"The general believes in being
decent, fair and just SO he says
that he will support a man who
does not meet those standards
because he believes in party re-
sponsibility."
Blast at Nixon.
Senator Monroney leveled his
statement at Senator Nixon, Gen.
Eisenhower's running mate, accus-
ing the Californian of begging
the question" in his statements
yesterday.
"It isn't a question of a differ
ence in political views or even a
difference over McCarthy's meth
ods." Senator Monroney said.
what is at issue is the vile, sour
rilous attack Mccarthy made in
the Senate on Gen. Marshall, who
sponsored Eisenhower's rise from
a colonel to a five-Star general"
Senator Monroney added:
IF Eisenhower swallows that
because of the Republican Party
label, people who RESPECT decent.
human loyalties will have just
cause to wonder what kind of al
crusade Eisenhower intends to|
lead"
Senator Mundt said Senator,
Monroney seemed to think the
Republicans ought to follow what
he. called the Democras' "Gestapo|
He said this was that
those who dare disagree with the
men on top must be pilloried,
punished or purged."
He added:
"The successful purge Of Sena-
tor Estes Kefauver at the Demo-
cratic National Convention in Chi
cago in favor of a hand-picked,
chine-selected candidate may
have given the opposition party
the notion that they can now usel
the purge all over again."
Gen. Eisenhower leaves his Den
yer headquarters at 12:45 pm.l