Evening star., 1952-05-16
Macarthur Warns
Of military State in
Election Maneuvers
By Gould Lincoln

Gen. Macarthur last night
struck at Gen. Eisenhower with
one hand and President Tru-
man with the other.
Speaking before the Michigan
legislature in Lansing, the general
who said there is no politics in
me- charged that the Democrats
as well as the Republicans were
trying to nominate Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower for President and
if Gen. Eisenhower were nomi-
mated and elected it would mean
the abandonment of the two
party system and destroy repre-
sentative government" He did
not use Gen. EisenhoWer's name
Sees military State"
Gen. Macarthur charged that
conniving by members of one party
in trying to in1unce the selection
of nominee by the other "sets
the stage for the entrance upon
the American scene of the ugly
threat of a military state"
He did not mention party or
candidate, but Gen. Eisenhower
is the only military figure in the
presidential race.
Gen. Macarthur rode through
nine other communities of South
eastern Michigan today climaXed
by another address on the Detroit
city hall steps.
Calling for a high level of states
manship on the part of both labor
and industry, Gen. Macarthur
told his Detroit audience that ex-
ploitation of industry by labor
would destroy the very founda-
tlonS on which labor's gains have
been made in this country.
He said that the common pur-
pose of both labor and industry
should be the advancement of "a
liberal and unexploited labor
movement and an industrial econ
omy sufficiently free of Govern
ment controls to maintain a rea-
sonable profit potential"
only thereby" Gen. Macarthur
continued, may our free enter
prise economy develop its maxi
mum dynamic force and have ade-
quate. safeguards against excesses
by either Government or labor or
management. Only thus can the
public interests be fully protected
Japan Mothers Get Freedom.
He said that labor in Japan had
been reduced almost to a form
of economic serfdom. But under
the American occupation admin
istration. he said, 1.-The workers
of Japan were liberalized and
oriented along the same lines as
here"
There, as here, Gen. Macarthur
continued. the tendency may
grow under the influence of
political preSsures to reverse the
process and attempt the exploita-
ton of industry by labor. Nothing
could more thoroughly wreck la
bor'S gains of the past century,"
Gen. Macarthur outlined a
course by which labor can protect
itself, industry and the public
interest. He proposed that it de-
2nand that Government be re
otiented from the arpitrariness of
autocratic rule which is leading
lnexorably toward the regimenta-
ton OF military state" Labor,
he said. must make sure that
Government is reduced to the
simplest and most economical
form; that it be limited in it's
taxing power to revenue that is
essential. 1t must demand that
Government be worthy of public
trust, that it exclude Communists.
that it shore up our defensive
strength" and that Government
adopt global, rather than a sec
t1onal, foreign policy.
In Lansing, amplifying his as
sertion that he was not engaging
in politics, Gen. Macarthur said
none Gs) intended in what I
say. I plead nothing but Ameri-
canism"
His address, however, was in
terpreted in political Washington
as direct attack on the Eisen-
hover candidacy, and, as a corol-
larry. an advocacy of that of SEN
ator Taft of Ohio.
Referring to proposals made
by some Democrats that Gen.
Eisenhower be nominated by both
the Democrats and the Repub-
licans-a proposal that has never
gained any headway-Gen. Mac
Arthur said:
1T is now even proposed that
our tWo-party political system be
abandoned for all practical pur-
poses and that both parties unite
under the leadership of the same
individual.
Gould there be more shocking
proposal?"
Charges InfiltratiOn.
Gen. Macarthur said that $50
open and menacing have the
efforts become to {. . enforce arbi-
trary and bipartisan acceptance
OF entrenched public policy that
We now find some of the leaders
of one party openly indorsing
their own selection as the nominee
of the opposition party. They
encourage Segments of their rank
and to file to infiltrate the opposi-
tion's ranks to influence the selec-
ton of its nominee for the presi-
dency"
Eisenhower leaders were quick
to declare today that if Gen. Mac
Arthur'S suggestions were carried
out, the Republican Party would
build a wall around itself and
raise a sign "all others keep out. y
Such a proposal, they said. would
result in the G. o. P. remaining
forever a minority party.
Asserting that America faces
"its greatest modern test" Gen.
Macarthur said that he had "been