Evening star., 1952-04-21

! Ian bdCkeTS DemdnC
Eisenhower Replies
On Il Questions
Backers of Senator Taft for tn,
Republican presidential nomina,
ton are circulating petitions ode
manding" that Gen. Eisenhower
answer 81 questions.
The queries deal with curren
national and world issues as vel
as some past and future matters
Taft-for-President headquar.
tiers explained that the petition!
were started in Tennessee by Guy
L. Smith, a Republican State
chairman and Taft supporter
Circulation is on a Nation wide
basis. Signatures are expected
from several million American
citizens regardless of party affilia.
tion." the headquarters statement
said.
Questions Are Quoted.
The petitions are addressed tt
Gen. Eisenhower in Europe. Taft
spokesmen did not disclose
whether a copy has been sent tt
him.
Gen. Eisenhower made no com
ment on the questionnaire. A
spokesman at his Paris head.
quarters referred newsmen to the
generals statement of April
saying he would not answer any
political questions until he leave:
his Army post.
Taft headquarters quoted as
follows from the letter that would
accompany the QUESTIONABLE tt
the general.
"We urgently insist upon ar
immediate public statement from
you on vital questions now before
the country. We are firmly con-
vinced you are doing yourself less
than Justice, if you withhold
answers. No candidate has a
right to hold himself aloof from
giving answers when all other
candidates are being questioned
freely upon their positions. AS
American citizens, Gen. Eisen-
hover. we strongly urge-yes, de-
Imand-answers to the following
Questions:
81. Do you approve of the firing
Of Gen. Douglas Macarthur?
2. What is your viewpoint on
the Truman policy in Korea and
the Far East?
Military Training.
"3. Will you continue to support
Universal Military Training even
though a universal draft is in ef-
feet?
-. Are you for or against the
Taft Hartley law?
IS. Are you for an increase or
reduction in Social Security bene-
fits?
IS. Are you for or against a
compulsory Federal Fair Employ
ment Practices Commission?
~. Area you for a continuance
or reduction of present domestic
Government spending?
"8. Are you for or against Tru-
mans foreign policy of tremen-
dous spending for armed forces
and grants to foreign nations?
80. Are you for the maintenance
or reduction of the present rate
of taxation?
Farm and Health Plans.
80. Are you for or against the
Brannan plan?
I'll. Are you for or against So
cialized medicine?
"12. Do you favor iva type
public power development or re.
lgional compact type now sought
by States in the Missouri Valley:
"13. Do you favor Federal aie
to education and, if so, on what
basis?
IA. If nominated and elected
will you clean house in the STATE
Department. beginning with Dear
Acheson?
"15. If nominated and electes
will you do likewise in the De
fenSe Department, beginning with
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, now man
power expert?
"16. If nominated will you fee
any embarrassment in attacking
either the record of the Truman
or Roosevelt administrations upor
which the Democrat nominee viii
run?
World Government.
/ "17. Are you in favor of tn,
federation of Atlantic treaty pow
IerS as advocated by Senator Ke
lfauver and other internationalists
in a super-state, or do you favo
any kind Of world government?
! "18. Why, as president of Co
: lumbia University, did you no
back up loyal Arthur p. Coleman
: professor of Polish literature, whel
he resigned in protest of endow
!. ment Of a chair by Communis
!. Polish government?
"19. Was it your or the lat
J FDR's decision to forbid Ger
George Patton from taking Pragu
or Gen. w. H. Simpsons 9th Arm,
: from taking Berlin?
! "20. Would you. if nominate,
: and elected. uphold the Constitu
: tional reservation of powers to tn