Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19

rected at Mr.. Nixon has beer
given by former President Tru.
man. AS recently as November
20, Mr.. Truman was quoted II
the Los Angeles Times as saying
During the 1852 campaign
Nixon called every member Of
the Democratic party a traitor
and at that time ! was head Of
the party"
Obvious Political Reason
There's an obvious politicaI
reason for the Democratic at
tacks. Numerous public opinion
polls have shown Mr.. Nixon a,
the front runner for the Repub.
lican presidential nomination il
President Eisenhower declines tt
stand for reelection. He is re.
garded as the certain NOMINEES
for Vice President II Mr.. Essen
hover runs again.
In either event, Mr.. Nixon viii
loom large In the 1856 Re.
publican picture. And If the
Democrats persist In their pres.
ent line Of attack, as it seems
probable they will, the Fred
issue" viii figure In the cam
paign.
New impetus for pushing the
Red issue into the coming cam
paign developed last week in the
form Of q new Reds-in-govern-
ment investigation by the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
ttvities. The testimony Of
Herbert Fuchs on Communist
cells in several Government
agencies during his 10 years In
Government beginning In 1886
seems likely to intensity the
issue.
Nixon Is Yet to Reply
Up to now, MIR. Nixon has
made no reply to the Demo
cratic attacks. However, Mr.
Eisenhower and other Re.
publican leaders have come
strongly to his defense. They
have pointed out that in his
campaign speeches in 1852 and
1854 he never painted the
Democrats as disloyal but as
miserably lacking in judgment
in dealing with the Communist
conspiracy in the United States
The Democratic National Com
mittee, soon after the 1854 cleo
lions. published a long list OF
quotations and newspaper ac-
counts of Nixon speeches in the
preceding campaign to support
the many attacks on Nixon by
Democratic leaders. Here are
o few Of the newspaper accounts
Of Nixon speeches:
From the Washington Post,
September %, 1854:
1.-THE issue is the inexcusable
activity of a few leaders of the
previous administration, who by
Understanding the danger Of
Communist inflltration, by ig-
noring the warnings Of ]. Edgar
Hoover and the FBI, and by
covering up rather than clean
ing up when disloyalty was
brought to their attention, rem
dered O terrible disservice to
their country and discredit to
their party"
Part Of Address Left Out
The Democratic committee
failed to give the part Of this
address, however. in which Mr..
Nixon said that the issue Of
loyalty on the part Of the DEM
ocrats was not involved. What
he said Immediately before he
levelled his charge quoted by
the committee was:
"He (StevenSon) complains
that the loyalty of Mr.. Truman
and his party has been i'm
pugned. Let us set the record
completely straight on this is
sue. No party has a monopoly
on patriotism in America. The
issue has never been and is not
now the loyalty of Democrats
versus the loyalty Of Republic
cans"
In the Christian Science Moni-
tor. September %. 1854, was the
following Nixon quotation "Un-
der the policies of this Admin
istration Eisenhower we are
taking steps to tighten up the
lax procedure of previous ad-
ministrations which permitted
espionage agents to give away
to our potential enemies secret
information from the State De-
partment and our atomic pro-
gram"
From the Contra Costa (Cal.)
Gazette, October IL, 1854.
AT home we saw the results
Of the previous administration
blindness on this issue in the
now Of secret State Department
documents to the Communist
through the Hiss and Bentley
espionage rings. and in the turn
ing over of our atomic secrets tc
the Russians in such volume
that they were able to develop
the atomic bomb at least three
and possibly five years before
they would have without the
assistance Of their Communist
agents in the United States"
Samples of Quotations
These are samples of the
Nixon quotations on which Mr.
Truman and others have based
their charge that Mr.. Nixon has
placed a treason" label on them
and the Democratic Party. A
comprehensive check, however
of those quotations are of news
paper accounts of speeches, press
conferences and public state
ments by the Vice President ir
1852 and 1854, failed to disclose
any instance in which Mr.. Nixor
referred to the Democratic
Party Of treason or that he called
Truman, Adlai Stevenson Of
other party leaders "disloyal."
Mr.. Nixon bore down heavily