{AR OWXARONS By DEREK KARTUN es INE MAN who is pleased about the nomination of General pwiyht D. Eisenhower as Repub- ican candidate for the U.S. Presidency is Thomas J. Watson. € is a very big businessman, indeed. * He is president of Interna- Onal Business Machines Inc. Re pet is a firm controlled by € Morgan banking interests. pon achieved notoriety be- ea war by accepting a dec- 3 ion from Adolf Hitler in per- ii _ On that occasion he gave © Nazi salute. Watson is not only a power in all Street and a lover of the azis. He is also something of 8N influence in American edu- Cation, And it was he, as a trustee * Columbia University. who in- Uced General Eisenhower in Une 1948 to beeome president of Columbia, ._ Why? Because Watson, Mor- Se and others in Wall Street EKisenhower as a presidential Possibility and had decided to 8’oom him for the nomination. 1 had, after all, almost pre- y the attributes. they were oking for. ue reputation as the man who oe D-Day landings was im- aa ge. His smile was winning his manner informal. ng public he had scarcely com- ted himself to anything. ay he was committed in priv- Re every one of the ultra- Be oa policies of the Re- ican party. pars period as a university litt ident was designed to iron a * of the military starch out de i and give him something € aspect of an educated man. Then, from 1950 until May of no year, he was back in uni- me M as U.S. Supreme Command- in Burope. / es made political speeches ainst Communism. He gave imself the airs of a statesman. eee still, he did not commit th self on the major issues of .; day. sand find out what Hisenhower Boe thinks needs patience, re- Spehae considerable hunting Tough newspaper files. out it can be done . And the Sult is revealing. John Gunther, the well-known eccan writer, said in Look aoe at the end of last year Wh the general was a man “who the shudders when he thinks of Roosevelt New Deal.” Gunther knows Eisenhower well, he has written a pook about him. Hisenhower’s campaign man- ager, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, said the general “‘favor- ed making a much bigger effort in Korea than was made.” Bisenhower himself, in Janu- ary 1951, told the Nazis of West- ern Germany that he proposed to ‘let bygones be bygones.” Rarely has he committed him- self on domestic issues. But his few recorded remarks are inter- esting. V If all that Americans want is security, they can g0 to prison,” he said in 1949. That is the authentic voice of the Re- publican bigot. V He is on record against government aid to education. He supports thought-control, in Am- erican schools and universities. Vv In April, 1948, he told the Senate Arms Service Committee that segregation of Negroes in the U.S. armed forces should be maintained. Vv Not long age he wrote a letter of support to the giant oil interests of ‘Texas which have grabbed 40,000 million dollars worth of tideland oi] resources that rightly belong to the Am- erican nation. ‘All these things he did before returning to fight the election. Since his return he has given a world-beating demonstration of how to say nothing at length. On the steel strike, social se- curity, civil rights, tariffs, Koren and China, he has refused to give a single straight answer. Yet he is committed to a Re- publican party program, worked out at the Chicago convention. which promises: ‘ Increased intervention in Eu- rope and Asia, repudiation of the Potsdam and Yalta agree- ments, and indefinite continua- tion of the cold war. These are the policies of Wall Street. ‘ That is why Thomas J. Wat- son backs Hisenhower. Se With Watson, there are others. There is former General Luc- jus D. Clay, the man who want- ed to start a war over Berlin. Clay is now president of Con- tinental Can Corporation, and a director, of Newmont Mining Company (Morgan). There is Philip D. Reed, chair- man of General Blectric Corpora- tion, and Donald F. Carpenter, of Du Pont. These two companies have the lion’s share of the atom-bomb contracts, worth billions of dol- lars. “Bisenhower is a man of great personal integrity and high prin- ciples,’ said Carpenter. “This combination of abilities is des- perately needed in the White House.” One way and another, the Morgan and Du Pont interests have the biggest stake of all in the cold war, the arms program, development of the hydrogen bomb and other weapons of mass destruction. If they want Hisenhower, it is because they believe he is the man who will protect their arms investments and give them the wars they need to keep the divi- dends flowing. : John Foster Dulles, the archi- tect of the Korean war and the . disastrous peace treaty with Ja- pan, supports Hisenhower. Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, one of the most rabid of all Republicans, sup- ports him, too. e All this is enough to show that Bisenhower is no crusader for national unity, clean govern- ment and the homely virtues. He is a direct representative of everything that is rotten, cor- rupt and dangerous in the United States. Nor was his election at Chi- cago the triumph for clean poli- tics over unscrupulous racketeer- ing that the press has claimed it to be, ' Certainly. the Taft forces stole delegations, tricked, lied and bribed their way toward the nomination. But the Eisenhower forces did exactly the same thing. t As the Manchester Guardian commented: “It was nauseatingly obvi- ous from yesterday’s proceed- ings that in the other states the Bisnhower fans exploited tricks just as knavish as anything that happened in Texas.” This is true. In Louisiana an Bisenhower ‘“‘mass meeting”’ (re- quired under party rules to be \advertised in widely circulated papers) consisted of a man, his wife and daughter, and three of their friends. They appeared at Chicago and claimed to have been nominated by the meeting. In Porto Rico a Taft delegate found that an Hisenhower man had got hold of the credential 3 The Morgan and Du Pont interests have the biggest stake of all in the cold war, the arms program, development of the hydrogen bomb. . .” The man who saw for himself the appalling uidenin of Nazi atrocities would now ‘“‘let bygones be bygones” and rearm the Nazis. forms and signed them. In Mississippi. the Eisenhower forces used a legal trick to make -it technically impossible for the Republican party, dominated by Taft supporters, to nominate at all. There is as much decency and democracy in the Eisenhower eamp as there was in the Taft camp. And that is very, very little. e Legal and financial difficulties put in the way of the Progressive party prevent it appearing as a genuine alternative for millions WallStreet also has a new hat ae for him. of Americans, ‘ They are forced back on-a& ‘choice’ between Republicans and Democrats. It is a choice between a gen- eral backed by the ‘most re- actionary. big business circles and the man the Democrats. are about to nominate. I Whoever he is, he will repre- sent a graft-riddled party which has shattered many of America’s democratic freedoms and has dragged the world to the brink of war. Democratic choice? What ar- rant nonsense! PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 25, 1952 — PAGE 9