The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-04-11
New COP Chairman At War
With Party's Left Wingers' =
BY JACK BELL


Hall was at war today with s'left1
wingers" he said are firing at
President Eisenhower and Con-
gresS as a prelude to next years
congressional election battle.
Hall, unanimously elected chair
man by the COP committee yes
terday to succeed G. Wesley Rob-
erts who resigned. told his party
colleagues not to expect any
overnight miracles.
It viii take a long time, the new
chairman said. to bring the Eli
senhower program into being, and
establish the Republicans as
true majority party that can elect
a president in 1856 preferably Ell
senhower again.
Without making it clear whether
he was talking exclusively about
Democrats or also about some Re-
publicans, Hall told the national
committee:
s'The left wing has only begun
to snipe at him Eisenhower, to
take pot shots at Congress and to
insinuate its deadly philosophy of
defeatism into the American life
again. No, the left wing has not
been vanquished. 1t has only lost
a battle.
sit will use every technique at
its command = misrepresentation,
infiltration, penetration, deception
and distortion to have its way"
Eisenhower, who chatted briefly
with the committee members at
the White House, had preserved
neutrality throughout the selection
of Hall, doomed primarily BY
House Speaker Martin Of Massa-
chusetts. But it was common
knowledge that Hall had been sug-
gested as competent man by
the President, with whom he trav-
eIed during last years presiden-
tial campaign.
Some Westerners protested in
effectively against the choice Of a
New Yorker, but they acceded to
the Presidents views.
Hall, So, served IA years in Con-
gress and is a former chairman
Of the COP Congressional Cam
paign Committee, which assists
the election Of Republican House
members.
Instead OF campaigning for re.
election last fall, he sought and
won election as a surrogate, OF
Judge of wills, in Nassau County
Long Island. He said he viii quit
this 1900 a year job and will
take no salary as COP chairman,
relying for income on his law firm
at Oyster Bay on Long Island,
Roberts was paid at tn crate Of
So. 500 a year for the less than
three months he was chairman. He
resigned after a Kansas Legislative
committee ruled he violated al
least the spirit Of the state anti.
lobbying law in helping to sell a
hospital to the state.
Roberts had no party or govern,
ment job at the time. He denied
any wrongdoing, blamed the incl
dent on factional difficulties, but
said he felt his activities as party
chairman were impaired
The committee and individual
members expressed strong belize
| in Roberts integrity in accepting
his resignation.
The Democratic National Com
mittee released, coineident witt
Halls election, what il called /
"fuil account of head on conflicts
between Eisenhowers views anC
Halls voting in Congress. CiteC
particularly was . vote last year
for 4 two-bilIicn-dollar cut III for
eign aid after Eisenhower has
said q reduction Of more than ons
billion might endanger Essential
defense preparations 10 Europe.
Hail announced he Is keeping
Miss Bertha B. Adkins as assistant
chairman and director Of the won
ans division. He said he ha:
named Mrs. Edna Basten Donald
Of Grand Island, Neb.s as vice
chairman.
The new chairman indicated he
win employ Robert Humphreys
who has been serving House Re
| puolicans as a public relations
adviser. ia the Job Of national
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