Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-21
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injustice and bigotry, and war
will bring out resources Of faith
and conscience which we had
never suspected.
I'VE mean to win the election!
But we care about winning, not
because success is an end in it
self. but because the success of
a party dedicated to human
beings and to tine principle of
individual freedom will release
the generous, creative energies
of our Nation in full f1ood-and
then there will be no limit to
what Americans can accom-
plish."
Mr.. Stevenson said he supports
the personal enterprise" idea in
contrast to the administration,
which. he said. instead of seek
ing to find new opportunities for
the individual in this age of
bigness. seems to have happily
accepted the prospect of an
America inhabited only by a few
giant concerns.
Stock in America
1.-THE American idea," he con-
tinued, ''is not of a Nation in
which every citizen is just a
stakeholder in some huge corpo-
ration. Rather, it is a Nation
in which everyone owns stock in
America, yes, and in himself"
The same theme ran through
Mr.. Humans dinner speech
here, but it sounded sharper
when he expressed it in his more
spicy language.
Mr.. Truman said that in this
election the people have a choice
between big business and the
general welfare, between leader
ship in foreign affairs and COM
placent drifting and blunding,
between a straightforward APP
proach to our problems and the
slick propaganda devices of the
Madison avenue advertising men
and Tricky Dicky, the present
Vice President"
Mr.. Truman had two separate
texts, one for delivery only to
the Washington dinner. the
other for his part of the closed
circuit television program, which
followed the dinners in all cities.
In both speeches Mr.. Truman
followed the line of attack he
found so effective in 1913. when
he won an upset victory over
Thomas E. Dewey.
Departing from his prepared
speech. Mr.. Truman. in an APP
parent reference to the Republic
can emphasis on ending the Ko-
rean War, said he hoped that
the halo and "the demogoguery
of Korea have worn of by this
time"
Praised by AchesOn
Former Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, in introducing
Mr.. Truman, described him as
man of courage and honor"
who never changed commit
ments or ducked responsibility.
When he arose to speak. Mr..
Truman predicted that Mr.
Acheson would go down in his
tory "as the greatest Secretary
of State the United States ever
had"
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. speak
ing from New York on the
closed circuit television program.
Said it is not possible to ridicule
Mr.. Stevenson's suggestions to
terminate hydrogen bomb tests,
to replace the draft system Of
obtaining military manpower, or
his proposals on education,
healthand foreign policy.
Around Same Theme
Mr.. Truman built his dinner
speech around the theme that
the Republicans see everything
going we'll at home and abroad
because they are looking through
rose-tinted glasses which keep
them from seeing the difficulties
facing farmers and small bust
nessmen, or housewives strug-
Cling with the cost Of living. He
said these glasses also blot out
the ground the free world has
lost to communism overseas.
The Stevenson Kefauver cam
paign dinner committee here
estimated that it sold 1000
tickets for the sl00-per-plate af-
fair held here last night.
Recalling that Washington
had been his second home for
iS years. Mr. Truman said he
likes to come back here and see
how his friends are getting
along. He said ne understood
the atmosphere has not been so
good here for Democrats during
the past four years. But he Of
fered the dinner guests the
cheering forecast that the day
OF liberation" is close at hand.
Mr.. Truman said "the greatest
mystery Of these last few years
Is why Mr.. Eisenhower cannot
see the distress Of the farmer.
the housewife. the small busi-
nessman.
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