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It Happened Last Night

By Ear ilson

HOT DOG COUNTER, CHIGAGO, July 14— My mammy and pappy were Republicans, so I'm entitled to accuse the Republican delegates of something the Democrats haven't thought of yet. They're wolves, : Miss Lisa Ferraday, the Hungarian actress currently feuding with Zsa Zsa i Gabor, click-clacked along “3 2m Michigan Blvd. window-shop- pr ping—and she was “accosted” four times in a half hour. “What is it with these Re-

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“NO THANKS, I've been to a convention,” she said. Galloping over to Ike's GHQ, we found him serving plenty of charm, To an 11-year-old boy arriving with one delegation, Ike said, “Well, this is the first convention for both of us.” Ike's worshipers were plugging his personality

"and ‘warmth. Miss Jo Trehy, an NBC makeup girl,

who made him up in Ames, Iowa, for “We, The People” told here how he pulled back a little

publicans?”’ Miss Ferraday ° asked your unconventional Peporter, “They did everything but pinch me.” i “How do you know they vere i Republicans?” 1 asked: her, - “If they'd been Dgmacr~'~ = they WOULD ' have pinched oh me,” she said. “More progres- Miss Gabor sive, you know.” Miss Ferraday—who'd just arrived from Hollywood—then described the Republican delegate “technique” or “approach.” “They're such nice-looking men . , , bankers, lawyers,” she said. “They all approached me the same way—'Miss, I wonder it I could buy you 3 drink. : “One of them was so embarrassed. After I told him no, he said, ‘Miss, I'm sorry. You see I'm rather new at this.’ "

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“HE WAS SO CUTE 1 felt sorry for him and almost wanted to buy him a drink.”

Miss Ferraday gave me a foreigner’s slant on the big rat race. “If they have to go through: this, why don’t they always keep the same man in?” she wanted to know. The crowds disturbed her. “If you drop dead here, you have to stand in line to do it,” she said, Lisa enjoyed the battling part, though. Her own feud with Zsa Zsa Gabor got rough when Zsa Zsa tried to console her for not getting a picture part that Zsa Zsa got. * “You see, darling, they wanted a real beauty,” Zsa Zsa said. “But darling,” meowed Lisa right back, “I thought they wanted an actress.” Inspired to new ideas in the art of insult after visiting Chicago, Lisa said, “If I see her, I will give her a real champagne bath.” Older women—like my own Beautiful Wife— and even a woman I know in her sixties, sai some of the conventioners had tried to pick them up. One wolf hobbled around on a cane, Maybe

‘Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, July 14—The choice of young Dick Nixon as the other half of the Eisenhower presidential “team seemed in many respects to be as happy a political event as has come down the pike in recent years. Apart from being personable, able and young, he spots a fresh trend. : It has always been my opinion that your vice president is equally as important as your President, since a heart attack or an assassin’s bullet or a plane crash can transform your VP into the head man. Yet we have treated the job as a sort or hearty joke for many a year. It has been used as a reward for faithful party hacks such as Alben Barkley and it has been the plum of pets such as Henry Wallace. It has been the seat of compromise in rugged disagreement, as in the case of Harry Truman's surprise nomination when the bosses wouldn't hold gtill for another four years of nature boy as Rooseveit's second man, > > 4

IN ACTUAL duties the vice presidency has been a baby-kissing contest judging-secondary speechmaking job, with not much .real work or significance, except in case of sudden death which plummets the VP into the breach when he's had very little practice at the top chores. 1 believe Sen, Nixon will be a strong arm for Gen. Eisenhower, an excellent chief of staff, say, because Ike's top talent is organization and administration. What I particularly like is that neither of these men is a long-time professional party politico, and as such is unridden by the old-fashioned tribal customs of the machine politician. A new day in government may be at hand. $0

THE CHIEF reason I'm tickled over Sen. Nixon's choice is that he is a man of my generation, which is to say men who touched maturity in the last war and in the post-war period. They are not concerned with the good old days because they don’t recall the good old days. They were educated in a depression. Their careers were interrupted by a war, and their post-war was cursed by inflation; corruption. ineficiency and the threat of a new war and sudden extinction via the atom. Political ethics are changing, it seems to me. The Taft outfit’s attempted theft of the Texas delegates was perfect politics—for Taft's generation. As itt ed out, this was the stroke which actually licked him. Most opinion is that if it 't been for the fight he lost in Chicago*over handful of delegates, he would have walked “an easy nomination. iE

pencil. : - : “Don’t worry, General, I never lost an eye yet,” she spoofed—so he laughed and surrendered. Sen. Taft held his news conference in a long hallway with the press stretched out as ih a nylon -or _cigaret line during the war. When it was over, ~'o#%e reporter said, “Thank you, Mr. Senater.” And another voice yelled: “Yes, thank you, Senator—I couldn’t hear a damn word,” Nobody could deny one thing—that the delegates always adhere to the party. “Especially,” added Hal Block of TV, “If the drinks are free.” * o> » » THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN NEW YORK... Pat Wymore plans to build a hotel in Jamaica near the one Errol Flynn's opening in December . «+ The Port Authority turned down a bid for a drive-in theater at Idlewild Airport .. . A “Life With Father” TV series is in the ‘works. “a db he TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “There are so many generals at the convention,” claimed Frank Cerutti, “It should have been held at the Pentagon.” A glamorous gal star spends more and more time here having facials at the beauty parlor . . . Lana Turner shows off a fancy corset in “The Merry Widow.” ’ Mr£. Alger Hiss, who's been doing research for her husband’s book, is under doctor's care for a nervous strain . . . Flying Enterprise skipper Kurt Carlson was asked by Democrats to enter N. Jersey politics. * %

EARL’S PEARLS . . . Inflation note, via Artie Dann: “The people you wouldn't give two cents for are now three for a dime.” . * SS WISH I'D SAID THAT: “This year,” says Hilt Herth, “a lot of Americans will vacation on the European plan—they’ll borrow the money.” Joey Adams gives this advice to long-winded convention speakers: “The mind cannot accept what the seat cannot endure.” , , . That's Earl, brother.

Sen. Nixon Is Seen as ‘Happy Political Event’

~~ Tke's conduct since he came back has broken most of the old-fashioned rules, because politically Gen. Eisenhower was born yesterday. Up until this year, it was not even known which party he belonged to, so you can call him a man of thic generation.in so far as his awareness of the moment is concerned. With Sen. Nixon behind him, we finally have an entry which comes about on modern merit, Sen. Nixon was the lad who put the finger on Alger Hiss and whose congressional experience is all post-war. They cannot possibly be as beholdened for private favor and personal indehtedness as men who have made lifelong careers of politics with their loyalties vested in another, simpler generation. It is of course true that the Messrs. Ike and Dick are not home yet, since there is a slight matter of a national election slated for fall. But I think they will be. I think the people want some fresh blood in office, untainted by a lifetime politi cal favor-swapping and political obligation.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

QI would like to start some rose slips unde glass jars. When is the best time to do this and how long should the jars be left over them? C. B. 8.

A-— Every rose-thumbed gardener (includin me) has a favorite and slightly different way of starting roses under jars. But here are a few Dbointers to get you started in the right direction. Choose a growing tip 6 to 8 inches long. Stick it half to two-thirds its length" into the ground in a shady spot. Screw a glass jar tight down over it. Be sure not tb put it in even part sun. The little greenhouse will simply cook ‘it if you do. Dip the rooting end in one of the hormone rooting powders if that will give you more confidence. Most gardeners insist that a “heél” of hard wood from the older stalk must be torn off at the hase of a cutting for surest resulfs. Be sure ground in ‘which you place the cutting is moist. Be sure of good contact, especially at the rooting end. Many gardeners think August is the best time to root roses. Leave jars on until a mild day next spring. Our grandmothers watered their cutting beds with weak vinegar and today’s scientists say cuttings root more surely in acid soil.

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CONQUEST BY TERROR . . . No. 1—

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By LELAND STOWE

THE WORLD'S GREATEST PLOT HQW TO ENSLAVE EVERYBODY is a. modern tragedy, written in Moscow, produced and directed by Soviet Russians. It is now being played throughout Eastern and captive Europe with a cast of 90 million persons.

How to Enslave Everybody could be moved onto the main stages of Western Europe, the Middle East or Asia at any time. Its Cominform directors predict world-wide productions in all languages. This tragedy contains far more murder and robbery, more terror and tortuf®) more vil--lainy ‘and heroism, more mockery and heartbreak than all of Shakespeare. = ” »

WHAT HAVE the Soviets accomplished in Eastern Europe? They have organized such vast police armies and regular armies that half of Europe cannot be liberated by any discernible means short of a third world war. They have made the Eastern European countries prisoners of the " Kremlin. Their resources are directed solely to the buildup of Soviet power. They have controled the life of every individual—from infants to great-grandpar-ents, from bankers to beggars, from peasants to poets, from teachers to preachers, from contraltos to coffinmakers. They have suppressed the independence of churches of every creed. They are subverting religious organizations to the political objectives of the Kremlin. They have placed more than one million Eastern Europeans in prisons and slave labor camps. They are expanding these: accommodations toward a goal of several million more slaves. s Ld ”

THEY HAVE destroyed all political opposition. They are now embarked upon liquidation of the upper and middle classes, through slow starvation, mass deportations and death sentence “Justice.” They have perverted education. They are “Russianizing” —the-cultures;- : science, arts ‘and traditions of the East European countries. They are well advanced toward communizing the younger generation, nearly 20 million ‘young people below the age of 21. Ts ‘In reality Soviet Russia ex-

EISENHOWER . . .

By WADE JONES

tends today to Berlin and Vienna. The Red Russians hold and rule more of Europe than the imperial Turks at the peak of their power, Most significant, Russianized Eastern Europe is & grave threat to the freedom of all western nations—to- American and British Commonwealth freedom as much as to Norwegian, French and Italian freedom. » » =" HOW COULD the Stalinists so quickly enslave six nations and a part of Germany? The answer lies, I think, in our own underestimate of their capacity. In 1946 after five months in the Iron-Curtain countries I underrated the Stalinists’ tempo. In Budapest that summer I met one official who judged the Russians’ abilities more accurately. Fr. Istvan Balogh was then an assistant secretary of state. He had an acute politica’ mind,

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become a renegade in Moscow's service. . “The Soviets are the new Herrenvolk—the new master race,” Father Balogh declared. “Eventually they will dominate Europe.” “But are they efficient enough to organize half of Europe?” I objected. First, a knowing smile above his astoundingly huge midriff. Then a confident declaration. “They don't have to be very efficient . . . They will smother all of Eastern Europe.” 2 ” n THE SMOTHERING of satellite Europe required five years +not the seven or eight, I had imagined. In this brief period the Russian .Communists proved themselves much more efficient than ed to anticipate. ‘Not in Western terms of technical organization and production of goods. They proved themselves highly efficient in expanding their police-state machine; in exporting their ‘own slave-state system—much more

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CHICAGO, July 14 —1In Dwight D. Eisenhower, the voters of America are well aware they've been given as Republican presidential nominee one of the world's great military figures, ornamented by one of the world's great grins. They're not yet sure what else they've been given. Until six months ago people didn’t even know whether Ike was a Republican or a Demo-

crat. Then he had to make a special announcement to tell them.

Here he is running for the highest political office in the land, yet in the last 10 years he's spent as much time out of the country as he has in it. When he came home from Europe a little over a month ago to campaign for the nom-

ination, he didn't return to mend his political fences. He didn’t have any to mend. He

came back to build them, from scratch,

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THE Kansan headed the greatest military force of all time in

the world's greatest war. But he'd never led troops on a battlefield, he'd never killed a man. and so far as is known he'd never fired a shot in anger. He didn’t intend to make soldiering a career even when he entered West Point. He was just -poor and it was a way to get a free education... And his gentle, religious mother wept when, he got the military academy appointment, Here is a man who in one sentence sent a half-million men into the horror of battle, and in the next began a search in wakime Italy for a little girl whose “tailor father back in America was worried about her. Here is a man, a professional soldier all his life, who right out in public will speak with such feeling on things that tears come to his eyes,

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You might be interested to know how these reports came to be written. They are a direct result of my bélief that the so-called “Iron Curtain” has many crevices in it; that we in the West have failed to tap many vital seepages of news. We could andg§should know a great deal more about communism in the Red-ruled half of Europe. I decided, in September, 1950, to try and get a maximum of available facts.

so, in fact, than the Nazis ever were. : This is something we need desperately to understand. It explains why Russia’s Red totfalitarianism is a greater, more universal menace than Germany's Brown totalitarianism was at its peak. Having seen the Nazis take over the Danubian countries in

1940, the contrasts strike me “with particular force. Hi Hitler's Nazis were han-

MONDAY, JULY 14, 1952

That's where the much neglected holes in the Iron Cur tain came in. Among these sources of information are: Journalists in exile, some of whom I had known. Members of National Committees in exile from satellite countries. Specialists in the MidEuropean Studies Center. Former career o rs in the captive nations’ armies who are now in the West. Former cabinet ministers. Recent refugees.

dicapped by being engaged in a great war. They never sought to impose controls on all sections of conquered coustries. Save for the Jews, they cultivated capitalists and free enterprisers. 5

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‘ght with brothers Earl, Arthur and Edgar (left to right).

And all this from a man who is a pretty fair free-style cusser in any league, but who at the same time is religious in a way no one can doubt. Yet he isn't a regular churchgoer. » n n

HE PROBABLY KNOWS more world bigshotls personally and well than any other man alive, yet he remains as Kansas as corn. And he'd rather run back to Abilene and play a little poker with his hometown cronies than almost any“thing else, this Midwestern internationalist. Ike has told friends he thinks of himself as a middle-of-the-roader, but he doesn’t say what

road and he doesn't say who is

traveling to the right of him and who to the left,

When he was president of Columbia University after the war he made a speech at the Wal-dorf-Astoria and said that some people were placing too much emphasis on personal security at the expense of individual liberty. For -this the Columbia student newspaper, the Daily Spectator, took him to task. Tke the effect that people who should be satisfied with heer and hot dogs wanted c¢ agne and caviar, To thi oe Spectator replied, “Being ‘corftent with heer and hot dogs has never been part of- the American tradition

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BUT AT OTHER TIMES he has given big business a jolt. Speaking at Columbia in 1948 he talked about the ‘danger” that could arise from “too great a concentration of finance.” And he lashed out at business “greed.” He is strongly against what he calls socialized medicine. On federal aid to education he is in favor of helping any part of the country wkich doesn't have the means to, educate its children properly, but he would oppose legislation which would put “Washington bureaucracy” into education. On foreign policy he would “go any place in this world” to talk to Stalin if he thought it would: do any good. But he believes. the best chance for peace will come by confronting Russia with areas of strength throughout the world. He would fot back the prefent FEPC program because he

objects to the part of it that ~

is “federal, compulsory.” But at the same time he proclaims his “unalterable support of

fairness and equality among all types of American citizens.” John (Inside) Gunther, in his book, “Eisenhower,” says that Ike's chief defect, both in general and as a presidential candidate, is his lack of definition, referred to above. ’

awn “THIS IN TURN,” Gunther writes, “connotes lack of depth. He has little talent for ab-

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stract thought, and seems to lack a fixed body of coherent philosophical belief." The fact remains that a lot of people today don't know as much about Eisenhower as they would like to. And in the absence of specific answers, these people would do well to look at the home life and boyhood environment - which produced the man, because to a striking degree he is a readily identifiable product of that environment. For instance, those who believe Tke hasn't taken a strong enough stand in favor of FEPC should know about the incident more than 40 years ago on the Abilene High School football field. Two of the Abilene team had halked at playing another team, one of whose members was a Negro. Ike, a star of the team, hit the ceiling. If his teammates refused to play against a Negro then he, Ike was turning in his suit. And he proceeded to back up his stand swith a rousing declaration on race relations. He won. And a few years later a Negro was playing on the Abilene team.

” ” ” ONE of Dwight D. Eisenhower’'s first and best boyhood friends, R. G. Tonkin, of San Antonio, Tex., gives these reasons for Ike's success: “His passion for work; his grin, and Mamie (his wife).” Others are inclined to include high up on any such list the training Ike got at home—long hours of hard work and an atmosphere of gentleness and religion which have given him a deep sense of spiritual values which today affect much that he says and does. Ike was born David Dwight Eisenhower on Oct. 14, 1800, at Denison, Téx. Two years later the family moved to Abilene and later still his mother switched his first two names around because she disliked nicknames and thought Dwight as a first name would be less susceptible to shortening than David, ' He ig of German stock on both sides of his family. Both his father and mother were deeply religious. His father was a leader of the River Brethren sect of the Mennonites, and his mother, an-ardent and life-long pacifist, eventually joined Jehovah's Witnesses. There were seven Eisenhower children, all boys, and four of them, besides the General, ate still alive. They are Milton, president of Pennsylvania State College; Arthur B., a Kansas City banker; Edgar N,. an at-

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THE National Committee for a Free Europe placed invaluable contacts at my dis posal. Radio Free Europe gave the most important cooperation of all. Since January, 1951, this self-assignment has occupied virtually all my time. The over-all picture was much more serious than I had anticipated. The situation is a ‘thousand times worse than the average American conceives of-—or perhaps is prepared to believe.

conquerors only, Their dynamite was directed. at the social, . political and economic foundations of Eastern Europe's nations. They had no he ruling classes. Their objective was to gain absolute power. They had precise ‘orders how to do it—orders which are still good for applying in any part of the world. : (Copyright. 19562, by Leland Stowe) NEXT: How the Commue nists Control Everybody.

poor. “Ike once had to wear his mother's high button shoes to school. Speaking of his parents, Ike has said recently, “And they were frugal, possibly of necessity, because I have found out in later years we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.” Another of those contradictions in Ike's life, this one with a heavy touch of irony, came up when the future general was whipped by his war - hating mother for playing soldier. Alden Hatch tells about it in his book, “General Ike.” / 5 » ” “YOU SEE,” she told Ike, not yet in his teens, “I remember that other war, thétigh I was only 5 when it ended. We were Virginians, but father held to the Union side. He believed that the North was right, and that slavery was all wrong. So all our neighbors suspected us. “Once, toward the end Confederate soldiers stormed through - our house looking for my older brother. . . “When the Yankees finally came, they weren't any better, “That's the way war makes men, like cruel animals. They seem to forget our Lord and his teaching of love. Christ forbid that you boys should ever grow like that.” She didn’t know then and her little son didn't know that a little more than 10 years from then he would be embarking on a military career at West Point and that she would cry about it. But she knew 10 years later that West Point was perhaps the only way her son could get an education, so she dried her tears and said bravely, “Splendid. 1 knew you could do it.”