Evening star., 1952-08-31
Eisenhower Confers
With Bernard Baruch
On Economic Issues
By the Assoeiofed Press

vi ICUnUIIIIC I9SuGS
BY the Assoeiatsd Press
NEW YORK. Aug. 30.-Gen
Eisenhower today talked over the
country's economic problems with
Bernard Baruch, the elder states
man who breakfasted yesterday
with Democratic Presidential
Nominee Adlai Stevenson.
Mr.. Baruch, an old friend Of
the Republican standard-b bearer,
did not pose for pictures with Gov.
Stevenson. He did pose with Gen.
Eisenhower.
But when the financier was
asked whether he intends to sup
port the general for presidency,
he told reporters:
when I get ready to say, you
won't have to ask me. People
don't want to be told who to vote
for. They ought to know by now."
No Politics Talked.
He and the general merely
grinned when asked whether they
had talked politics and then Mr..
Baruch added:
I'm not talking politics now.
I have yet to make my first politi-
cal statement"
Mr.. Baruch said that he and
the general did 60 over various
phases Of the economic situation,
particularly imitation"
Answering a question as to
whether they were agreed on the
imitation problem. Gen. EiSen-
hover told newsmen:
1--WE don't have to agree-1 listen
to him on imitation"
Gen. Eisenhower devoted most
Of his day to drafting his Labor
Day speech.
The Republican nominee also
worked over other addresses COM
ing up in next weeks campaign
swing into the South, Pennsyl-
vania and the Midwest.
His Labor Day speech will be!
delivered before the convention Of
the National Association Of Letter
Carriers. His opposition for the
Labor Day headlines will be thel
major talks scheduled that day
by Gov. Stevenson and President
Truman.
Stresses Middle Course. |
Conferring with Gen. Eisen-
hover on his speeches were such
advisors as Gov. Sherman Adams
of New Hampshire, chairman oil
his political advisory staff; Ex-
ecutive Assistant Arthur H. VAN
denberg, jr., and his research
director, Gabriel Hauge.
The presence Of former Gov.
Harold E. Stassen Of Minnesota
underlined the middle road note
Gen. Eisenhower struck today, asI
he has in the past, in his Labor
Day statement.
Since the hard-fought nomi-
mating battle struck heavy blows
ut party harmony at the Repub-
lfcan National Convention last
month, Gen. Eisenhower's head
quarters has been attempting toI
steer down the middle and tol
make conciliatory gestures toward
all elements in the party.
That involves wooing Senator
Taft Of Ohio and his supporters,
and it involves cultivating Mr..
StaSsen and his hackers who lean
toward less conservative trends in
national policy.
Taft Meeting Planned.
Plans are underway for Gen.
Eisenhower and Senator Taft to|
meet around d-September. Sem
atcr Taft has said he will cam
paign for the general and Gen.
Eisenhower has said he will well
come the help of his chief rival
for the nomination.
The unanswered question at this
point is to what extent and how
vigorously Senator Taft will cam
paign. The question is even more
an open one in the light Of the
fact that Mr.. Stassen now hasI
spent the better part of two days
comforting with the inner circle
at Eisenhower headquarters.
Mr.. Stassen was another entry
In the g. o. P. presidential sweep
stakes. But his bid was consid-
cred more Of a stop-Taft attempt
than anything else.
Attends Speech Drafting.
Yesterday Mr.. Stassen conferred
with Gen. Eisenhower and, the
generals aides said, went over
speaking dates and topics. But
today. they said. he was sitting in|
on the speech-writing activities.
One Of the major speeches onI
the Eisenhower docket is sche-
duled for September 6 at the
National Flowing Contest at Kas-
son, in Mr.. Stassen's home State
OF Minnesota.
When photographers were given
permission to snap Gen. Eisen-
hover at work today, they found
him sitting behind a neat, al
most clear desk.
When my desk is the cleaneSt,
that's when I''', the busiest" the
general told them.
But he compl.1G with a requestI
to shuttle a few papers around
to get a little action into the
pictures.
While it was a day of no for
NAL appointments, Herbert Brow
nell and Roy Roberts stopped in
at headquarters. Mr.. Brownell
was manager Of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey's unsuccessful presidential
campaigns in 1914 and 1948. Mr..
Roberts is president Of the Kansas
City Star.
Prince-Mont Officers.