Evening star., 1952-02-15
kefauyer Criticized.
On Race Issue, Along
With Eisenhower
BY N. A,soe;o,.d Pres.

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Two Of the presidential sweep
stakes runners were under fire
today on the touchy question of
racial segregation. a possibly criti-
cal issue in the pre-convention
campaigns of both major parties.
They were the Republicans Gen.
Eisenhower and the Democrat
Senator Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee. Both were criticized by
a Negro spokesman for what he
said was their attitude toward
Negroes in the armed services.
Clarence Mitchell, Washington
bureau director of the National
Association for the Advancement
OF Colored People, said Senator
kefauver once voted for race seq
regation in the armed forces and
that Gen. Eisenhower had told
the NAACP that Negro soldiers
mixed with white would be at a
disadvantage.
Morse Lashes at Taft.
The Tennessean's Office said
Senator Kefauver once backed a.
proposal to let men in uniform
decide whether they wanted toI
serve in segregated or nom
segregated units. No one offered
any comment for the general,
who has said he would not take
part in the pre-conyention presi-
dental campaign.
Senator Taft of Ohio was under
fire. too-for a statement that hel
has mo confidence" in the present
Chiefs of Staff. Senator Morse,
Republican. of Oregon said, with
out naming him directly, that the
g. o. p. candidate should notI
shake public confidence in the
military leadership.
Senator Taft himself was in the
Far West campaigning briskly and
talking about everything from
potatoes to foreign policy. /
Moving into Idaho, Senator Taft
said the recent price order on
white potatoes "a hot issue in
1daho-was an example of Fed
eral bungling in industry" /
Favors Aid For Equality.
Speaking in Boise and Poca-
tello, he said Cd workers and
farmers deserve Government aid,
but only to give them equality
under free enterprise system,
(2) the G. o. P. won't win by
using "me-too policy" and (3)
the administrations Far East
policy is wrong and the Chinese
Nationalists should be armed.
Today he moves to Cheyenne,
Wyo. /
Senator Kefauver was in New
Hampshire on a leisurely grass
roots tour to build up his strength
in next months primary, first in
the Nation. He met a lot of peo-
pie, shook hands, and took stand
on the controversial Vatican ques-
ton:
The Tennesseean said he IA
vors sending a personal envoy
to the Vatican instead of q full
fedged ambassador, as proposed
by President Truman.
Warren Gives Keynote Views.
Gov. Earl Warren of Cali
fornia, another q, Q. P. candidate,
implied in New York he does not
believe Gen. Douglas Macarthur
is the man to keynote the Re-
publican convention this July. He
said the keynoter should not be
a candidate, and should not IA
vor any special candidate. Gen.
Macarthur has been reported
leaning toward Senator Taft, but
has neither confirmed nor denied
this.
Down in strongly Democratic
Louisiana, the States handful of
Republicans were holding the
political headlines. An Eisen-
hover faction demanding voice
in the pro-Taft G. o. P. State
Central Committee said court
decision today may play a role in
the presidential race.
The Eisenhower faction wants
the court to force the Taft forces
who hold party authority-to
recognize returns of January 13
primary in which the generals
forces Unexpectedly won 10 COM
mittee seats.
Harold E. Stassen, bucking Sen
ator Taft. Gen. Eisenhower and
Gov. Warren for the G. o. P. NOM
ination, said in New York he
favors worldwide program to
combat communism. He said he
is for neither Gen. MacArthur'sI |
"Asia-f first" policy nor Gen. Eisen-
hower's reported Europe first"
attitude in hIIild-up of strength