Evening star., 1953-12-06
Critics Of Eisenhower
Change Their Tactics
Writer Sees Democrats
Concentrating on Mccarthy
By Fronk R. Kent

BY Fronk R. Kent
Apparently alarmed at public re-
action to the revelations Of ]. Edgar
Hoover, that beginning as far back as
1916 and continuing up to 1851, the FBI
repeatedly has presented specific data
concerning many Communist agents
holding high posts in the Federal Gov
ernment without obtaining any action
from those in authority. the Democratic
propagandists suddenly revamped their
strategy.
Instead Of continued indictment of
the President for not Immediately
balancing the budget and reducing
taxes: instead of trying to make VIII
lain of Secretary of Agriculture Benson:
instead of denouncing Secretary Weeks
as the evil symbol of big business con-
troll; instead of the attempt to make
Gen. Ike's addiction to golf seem
sinister with extraordinary unanimity
they have now concentrated upon the
thesis that not only is Senator Nc
Carthy reincarnation Of the devil but
that all the other investigating COM
mittees, House and Senate, have been
devoting themselves solely to besmirch-
ing the regulations of innocent citizens
and conducting unrestrained witch
hunts" and for political purposes.
None Of this, of course, is true and
only the most gullible believe it. Never
theless, it is so persistently and copious-
ly presented that it inevitably makes a
certain impression. Naturally, its chief
source is the Democratic National Com
mittee's publicity department (steered
by Stephen MitchelD, which is manned
by some exceedingly ingenious and able
men. At the moment this is their line
and they have been greatly helped In its
development by certain individuals here
and abroad. One Of these Is Supreme
Court Justice William o. Douglas, an
extreme left-wing New Dealer Of the
Roosevelt school and the only member
Of the highest court who seems never
to miss an opportunity to make po-
litical Speech-or to advertise himself.
The justice has had himself men
toned by his radical friends for Vice
President and President a good many
times. They always seem to think that
he might be induced to leave the Sc
curity of the court for the risks Of
political life, but some who know him
best do not feel that way. They con-
cede that Mr.. Douglas revels in the
publicity concerning his possible can
didacy but regard him as far too
shrewd to expose himself to the
voters. It is true his political speeches
irritate some of his colleagues on the
court very much. but none of these
ever has taken him seriously as a
candidate.
His most recent outburst fitted, as
usual, into the current Democratic
propaganda. In particular it har-
monized with the speeches of the
Messrs. Stevenson, Mitchell, Fritchie
and others which, in turn, were prac-
tically identical in tone with the CIO
publicity output and the New Deal-Fair
Deal columnists and commentators.
With remarkable unanimity they all
ignored the devastating statement of
j. Edgar Hoover. revealing the inexcus-
able laXity and leniency of the Tru-
man administration in dealing with
the known Communist agents inside
the Government, and assailed the ef-
forts Of the various investigating COM
mittees to uncover others not yet
known-but whose existence no rea-
sonably informed person doubts.
The obvious Democratic plan is to
ignore the facts and denounce the ad-
minlStration for presenting them. The
immediate idea seems to be to dis
credit all congressional Investigations,
insist that what happened in the Tru-
man administration is no concern of
the American people and that Mr..
Truman is a blameless and noble fellow
entitled to call other persons liars but
who, despite proof of the inaccuracy
of his own statements, must not have
his veracity questioned. The absurdity
of this is too clear to need Stressing.
The recent unequivocal Eisenhower
Dulles reputation of Senator McCar-
thy's methods and statements stamp
the frequent suggestions that the ad-
ministration is politically afraid Of
Mccarthy and unwilling to take issue
with him, as maliciously false.
On top Of all this the anti-Eisen-
hover elements insist that the prestige
of the United States has been greatly
damaged abroad and morale in our
foreign service is terribly low. This
theory is largely founded upon the dis
patches of uniformed London corre-
spondents located here. Most of these
are New Dealish by nature. They cable
across digests of the views of the left
wing columnists. These are printed in
the London papers and then cabled
back here and printed in our press as
rejecting the European viewpoint"
1t is all pretty silly-this handmade
European viewpoint" stuff. the Nc
Carthy presidential prospects, and the
complete ignoring of the damning facts
of Communist infiltration in our Gov
ernment under Roosevelt and Truman.
But, the reason for not taking it too
seriously is a very simple but sound
one-to wit, it is all based on the as
sumption that the American people on
the whole are fools. That just is not
so They may be foolish, but not that
foolish.