The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
Makes Pledge To
COP Leaders In
North Dakota
BY MARVIN |. ARRoWsMIrH

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i MINOT, N. D. R-President Ell.
senhower gives a Republican rally
a report today on the first months
of his administration, a regime
he says will be free during the
next four years of scandals and
racketeering.
The President promised such an
administration to $50 North Dakota
COP leaders last night after tell
ing another audience in Minneap-
oils that all the free nations of the
world must stand together against
Communist aggression, ''or they
shall fall separately"
! Eisenhower was scheduled to
drive 65 miles today to Riverdale,
N. D., to speak briefly and infor-
mally at ceremonies marking
closure of Garrison Dam.
From there he travels TO Mt.
Rushmore National Memorial near
Rapid City, S. D., for a major
political address at the convention
of the National Federation of
Young Republicans.
Eisenhower gave his Minot audi
ence preyiew of his speech to
the Young Republicans.
Singing out such members of
his Cabinet as Secretary of State
Dulles, Secretary Of the Treasury
Humphrey and Secretary of Labor
as examples of integrity and abili.
ty, President urged the North Da-
kota group to attract outstanding
people into the state organization's
ranks.
People of such caliber, Eisen-
hover added, assure there are
not going to be any tax scandals
or unwarranted pardons, or rack
eteering."
He said he was going to stress
that in his Mt. Rushmore speech
and tell the Young Republicans
that latter 20 lean years" in the
political vineyard it is up to them
to prove the party is worthy of
continued trust.
Presidential aides talked Of the
speech in advance as the opening
gun in an Eisenhower drive to in
crease the COP margin in Con-
gress in the 1854 elections.
The President flew west from
, Washington yesterday to start a
five-day trip into as many states
Minnesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota. New Hampshire and New
York. He plans to return to the
White House Sunday night.
In Minneapolis his address at
the convention of the National
Junior Chamber Of Commerce was
devoted to what he called ''the
constant controlling consideration
in our national life--our nations
security
His assertion the worlds free
nations must stand together or fall
separately to communism was a
new rejection Of "go il alone" phil
osophy and at the same time APP
peared to be directed also to South
Koreans opposing the impending
armistice.
The Presidents speech was re-
ceived enthusiastically by about
$500 persons in the 10.000.seat
Minneapolis Auditorium. He also
got a warm welrome from other
thousands who crowded the route
he travelled through the city.
Eisenhower said free world unity
"means compromise--alwa with
In clearly defined. clearly UNDER
stood framework OF principle"
Eisenhower said:
I'VE all hear "a good deal
OF unhappy nurmuring about the
United Nations. II is easy to under
stand the dismay Of many. None
Of US is above irritation and frns-
tration over the seemingly vain
and tedious processes Of political
discourse In times Of great crisis.
''But none Of Us can rightly for
get that neither the worId-nor the
United Nations--is or can be made
in single Image Of one nations
win or ideas"
The President defended his hotly
debated plan to cut the Truman
administrations Air Force budget
about five billion dollars. Replying
TO such critics as Gen. Hoyt s.
Vandenberg. Air Force chief 81
staff, without actually naming any
names be said thu proposed spend-
ing cut means ''fewer planes in
theory. mare nlanax ia fact more