Evening star., 1952-10-21
Truman Blasts 6. 0.P.
Charge He Ascribed
Bias 10 Eisenhower


Bias 10 Eisenhower
President Truman wants the
record to show he never called
Gen. Eisenhower anti Catholic
and anti-Jewish.
In a White House statement
last night he accused some Re-
publican leaders of deliberately
distorting" comments he made
last Friday about the G. o. P.
presidential nominees attitude on
immigration legislation.
The President declared Gen.
Eisenhower cannot escape respon-
sibility for supporting Republican
Senator's who pushed through
Legislation Mr.. Truman regards
as discriminatory.
Repeats His Words.
His statement follows:
Certain Republican leaders
have been deliberately distorting
my statement of October II con-
cernlng the position of the Re-
publican Party and the position
of most of its representatives in
Congress on our immigration laws.
Perhaps what is needed now is a
calm clarification of the situation.
Nov, what does the record
show; what precisely did I say
last Friday? 1 repeat the exact
words I used:
"'Among those who voted for
the McCarran bill and to over
ride my veto, was the Republican
candidate for vice president.
Among the other Republicans,
were Senators Jenner and NC
Carthy. Together with eX-Sen-
ator Revercomb, the champion of
the anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish
provisions of the original DIP (dis-
placed persons) bill. these men
have been embraced by the candi-
date for President.
Recalls master Race"
"'The Republican candidate
for the presidency cannot escape
responsibility for his indorSe-
ments. He has had an attack of
moral blindness, for today he is
willing to accept the very prac-
tices that identified the so-called
master race" although he took
a leading part in liberating Eu-
rope from their domination
I do not withdraw word OF
that statement. But the Repub-
licanS and a few others whom
they were able to persuade to help
them, chose to distort the simple
meaning of my words as a charge
that the Republican presidential
candidate is anti-Catholic and
anti-Jewish.
II said no such thing, and in
deed meant no such thing, and
any fair person who reads what
in fact I did say must be as
shocked as I am by the absurd
tiles in the press of the last few
days.
Attacks McCarran.
Certainly, people remember
that I have made clear that Sen
ator McCarran, the principal
sponsor of discriminatory immi-
grafton legislation, is not my kind
of Democrat
Contrast that with the Re-
publican candidates willing and
hearty Endorsement of Senators
Jenner, Mccarthy and Rever-
comb. The first two. along with
Senator Nixon and most Repub-
llicans, voted to override any veto
of the McCarran bill, which is
recognized everywhere as discrim-
Iinatory.
Senator Revercomb, it will not
be forgotten, championed the
notorious anti-Catholic and anti
Jewish provisions of the original
displaced persons bill This is
what I said. and these are the
facts which nobody has yet
denied.
What all of this furore adds
up to is that the Republicans in
their eagerness to get votes are
trying to find in my statement of
fact something that is not there.
II cannot tolerate this.
Candidate Must Explain.
IF the Republican candidate
sees fit to indorse such well-known
supporters of discriminatory legis-
lation, if he is willing to campaign
on a platform that is utterly silent
on the subject of amending that
legislation, and if he wants people
to take seriously his belated
acknowledgment, just the other
day, that the McCarran Act needs
radical amendments, he must then
Explain to the public whether he
accepts the practices of the men
he supports or whether. by some
political disclaimer, he disasso-
ciates himself from their prac-
tices.
''The practices of those Senators
the practices of the big lie and
Iof character assaSsination-are
identified with the so-called mas
ter race" theory and no amount
of distortion can change that
fact.
II know that the Republican
candidate for President is neither
Ianti-Jewish nor anti-Catholic, butt
why does he give his Endorsement
to such men?
THAT is what I condemned last
Friday and this is what I con-
denim today"