Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-28
Stevenson Says
Eisenhower
Has Hurt Nation
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peoples during the Eisenhower
Dulles period than we like to re-
call" Mr.. Stevenson declared,
I"but this is a new low even for
the Republicans"
If it were true, it would be
shameful stupidity to say it," he
went on.
But as it is false, it was a
gross effort to exploit the anguish
Iof brave people to make votes in
an American election. The credit
goes where it belongs-to heroic
Poles and Hungarians who faced
the tanks and guns of their
Russian rulers. i. No credit goes
ito men who in recent weeks have
Exposed themselves to nothing
more dangerous than their own
campaign oratory."
Minister Was Transferred
When the fighting fiared in
Poland, said the candidate, 1.-The
American Ambassador [Joseph
E. JacobSl wasn't even at his
post-he was visiting Berlin to
see his dentist. And when the re-
volt broke out in Hungary, our
envoy was not even in that
country"
A Stevenson aide explained
that the American minister to
Hungary. c. M. Ravndal, was
transferred some time age. His
replacement, Edward T. WALES,
has not yet left Washington. the
aide said.
At the time of the Indo- China
crisis, Mr.. Stevenson recalled.
when high members of the ad-
ADMINISTRATION were calling for a
secret conference on possible
American involvement. President
Eisenhower was reported to have
I'gone south for hunting with
Secretary Humphrey and had
Ibagged his limit of quail"
1.-TWO days later. the alarm
had deepened in Washington
and the papers reported that
President Eisenhower was leav-
ing for a six-day vacation in
California"
Similarly, declared Mr.. Ste
venson, the President was vaca-
tioning when Secretary Dulles
returned from the four-power
conference in Berlin, when Mr.
Dulles met Anthony Eden to dis
cusss possibility of joint military
action in Indo- China. when the
airlift to Indo-China was an
nounced. and when the French
bastion of Diem Bien Phu fell to
the Communists.
THE President was away golf
ing when it was announced early
last year that our Air Force had
gone on a full war footing as a
result of the Formosa crisis"
Mr.. Stevenson continued. He
was shooting quail when we
evacuated the Tachen Islands.
He was golfing in New Hamp-
Shire in June, 1854, when the
lSoYiets shot down q United
States plane of Alaska. In the
New York Times. it said there
was no visible evidence that the
president had anything on his
mind other than having a good
time"
Raises Health Issue
Directly raising the matter OF
the Presidents health, he added:
II have left out of the list
every case where the Presidents
absence from Washington or his
ignorance of crucial facts could
be traced to his illnesses.
He fully realized, said Mr.. Ste
venson. that any President will
inevitably be gone on some occa-
sions when a crisis arises. surely
don't begrudge the President
either the recreation. the repose
or the exercise necessary for
health. I even think a President
is entitled to enjoy himself occa-
sionally.
But a President must assume
the full responsibilities of that
high post. He is the Chief Exec
utive. And I say bluntly that
I do not agree with President Eli
senhower that the United States
can be run by board of direc-
tors. with the President presid-
ing at occasional meetings"
Attacks Nixon
The assault on the President
was followed up by whitening
blast at his California-grown
running mate. Vice President
Nixon.
During the coming four years.
Eisenhower will almost certainly
be even less disposed to lead
than during the last four.
"And into this vacuum will
come Richard Nixon-beloved by
1.-THE most reactinnarv wing of