Evening star., 1952-08-29
Senator Lodge Scouts
Stevenson S Sincerity
On FiIibuster Curbs
By Jones DevIin
Associated Press Stoff Writer

Oy S0uSS 0SVtU
Associated Press Stoff Writer
NEW YORK. Aug. Ex-senator
Lodge. Republican, Of Massachu-
sets today denounced as a "pious.
insincere piece of double talk"
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson's state
ment last night against congress
sional f1libusters.
The Senator. who was chairman
of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
Presidential Campaign Advisory
Committee. said the Democrats
had controlled the Senate for :our
years and had dome nothing
about it,
Gov. Stevenson said yesterday
that if elected President he would
use whatever influence he might
have Ito get the Senate to change
its rules under which filibustersl
have killed civil rights legisla-
ton"
Cites StevenSOn's Record.
Senator Lodge told a news con-
ference at Gen. Eisenhower's
headquarters that the Democratic
presidential nominee had said last
night that he was proud to have
Senator Sparkman of Alabama as
a running mate and only hoped
that he could keep up with him.
Declaring Senator Sparkman
expressed strong opposition to al
civil rights program in a Mobile
(Alao speech April IT,, 1850, Sen
ator Lodge said Gov. Stevenson
"can keep up with him all right
If that's as far as he's going on
civil rights"
Senator Lodge said Gen. Eisen-
hover had expressed himself very
strongly in favor of curbing fill
busters.
He is for every measure that
will promote civil rights without
defeating its own purpose" Sena-
tor Lodge said.
Vows Fight on Filibusters.
The Senator noted that if hel
won his own campaign for re-
election in Massachusetts, and
that if the Republicans obtained
majority in the Senate, he would
become chairman of the Senate
Rules Committee.
I will fight filibusters as long
as it takes to end filibusters," Sem
ator Lodge said. 1T never has
been done and I am the boy who
wants to do it."
He said he would call hearings
In January to change the rules
to eliminate fllibusters and ex-
pressed confidence that such a.
proposal could be placed on the
Senate calendar within a month
after the hearings began.
Meanwhile. Gen. Eisenhower
cloSeted himself with his staff tol
work on speeches which an aide
limited would produce the fire
works" his supporters have de-
n1anded. He was expected tol
spend these next three days con-
centrating on speeches he will de-
liver on Southern trip starting
Tuesday.
This attention on what to say
and how to say it followed COM
plants from some of his admirers
that his campaigning had been
too soft. .y.
A stream Of callers at his head
quarters yesterday told newSmen
the general was pacing his White
House bid ably. building it up
gradually to reach a peak just
before election.
The general, as he embarked
on his literary task, was buoyed
by word that he could expect a
heavy share of votes from thou
sands of Americans Of Polish
descent.
Meets Polish Group.
Five leaders of Polish organiza-
tons conferred with him yester-
day at his Hotel Commodore head
quarters and later told newsmenE
they had informed him they could
not support the Democratic Party.
"At Yalta, President Roosevelt
sold Poland down the river the i
same as he did China" said
Frank Wazeter, president of the
New York division of the 6-mil-
lion member Polish American
Congress.
Our people can't feel sympa-
thetic to party that made those
things possible, Mr.. Wazeter said.
He said the leaders who visited
Gen. Eisenhower spoke as indi-
viduals. but they believed they
echoed a sentiment of Polish
Americans generally that the
Democratic Party betrayed Po-
land"
Mr.. Wazeter said that in 1914
President Roosevelt met Polish
American leaders, pointed to al
wall map Of Poland and told them |
their mother nation would be pro-
tected. although the PRESIDENT