Washington-U. S. A.
COFFIN, TRIS
WASHINGTON—U.S.A. By Tris Coffin Dulles's Maneuvers, Ike's Press Conferences, and Civil Rights Washington, D.C. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is engaged in a unique maneuver. He is...
...There are three reasons why the Fisenhower Administration would like to find a "live and let live" formula with the Communist bloc: 1. All who have studied the gargantuan $71.8-billion Federal budget realize there is only one place where billions can be struck out...
...A few days ago...
...Throughout the weary hours of Senate debate on civil rights, there is an atmosphere of unreality...
...Moreover, most Southern Senators are reasonable men who will talk off-the-record of the big changes in their part of the country and will admit that segregation, as a way of life, is dying...
...But Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who was once the Republican National Chairman, shrewdly sees this issue as a way of breaking the Democratic hold on the cities and keeping the GOP in power for a generation...
...There are a number of forces operating in a free economy that could tend to—to vitiate the general effect of this rise...
...2. England and France have long since been appalled at the demands of the cold war as it is played by Washington...
...A defense cut of any size cannot be made as long as the cold war may get hot...
...The overthrow, unconditional surrender or containment of Communism no longer seems practical in view of the cost...
...The President answered: "Well, I would say this—naturally I am not a lawyer and I don't participate in the exact language of proposals...
...A far-reaching consequence of the Senate battle is the dissolution of the Southern Democrat-conservative Republican bloc that has commanded the upper body in all but the rosiest days of the New Deal...
...by comparison...
...So before I make any more remarks on that I would want to talk to the Attorney General and see exactly what they mean...
...Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who voted against a compulsory Fair Employment Practices Commission in the House, is the darling of the Negro press...
...He comes before the reporters as a pleasant person, radiating simplicity and charm...
...This was a mistake the Truman Administration made...
...In other words, it might even force a backward step...
...Now, as to the exact decision that was made, of what it will mean on our economy, was not, will not be known until we know to what extent the users of steel can absorb this cost, as the automobiles, the refrigerators, and all the rest of it, and also what resistance there will be to the sale of these articles as they become higher in price...
...Yet, the Administration would like to present the voters with a tasty budget cut next year and again in 1960 if the Russians will just cooperate...
...This uneasy reply illustrates a basic split within the Administration on civil rights...
...There has got to be in a free economy statesmanlike action on the part of all business elements, businessmen and labor, or we are all lost...
...Particularly prized is a disarmament pact which would allow us to gradually lower the immense military costs of the cold war...
...Everything else is...
...President Eisenhower wants to complete his term without getting in any fights or stirring up bitterness toward himself...
...He sends his diplomatic legions crying and waving spears in one direction, while he quietly moves in another to surprise the foe...
...that the Administration's right-to-vote bill was a "cunning device" to forcibly integrate the schools...
...Meanwhile, the Administration is reaching eagerly for a general agreement with Moscow...
...He replied : "Well, very naturally I don't ha\e the exact knowledge that would allow me to make a detailed judgment about such things...
...Personally, he would be willing to backtrack and accept a compromise...
...Reporters must interpret his statements by watching the expression on press secretary Jim Hagerty's face, or talking off-the-record to an Administration executive...
...Edgar Guest, and the annual Fourth of July speech...
...Southerners like Harry F. Byrd (D.-Va...
...Correspondents tried to find out how firm the ground was under his civil-rights stand...
...More often, the President's Wednesday morning meetings with the press and cameras reveal his genius as a public figure and his inadequacies as a leader...
...I do stand firmly upon the idea I advanced, which is that Government alone cannot preserve a sound dollar...
...I know what the objective was that I was seeking, which was to prevent anybody illegally from interfering with any individual's right to vote if that individual were qualified under the proper laws of his state, and so on...
...And Dulles himself outdid Knowland in an attack on Red China...
...peanuts or a fixed charge, e.g., veterans' benefits and interest payment on the national debt...
...for example, the President was asked if the steel-price increase violated his call for "statesmanlike action" by labor and industry to hold back inflation...
...But, in any event, there has got to be cooperation in these circles that I have spoken of or we are going to be in trouble...
...Senator Russell in his well-tailored blue suit and soft, barely audible voice does not look the part of the professional Southerner in a frock coat and long hair...
...Those who know him well doubt that the Senator really believes the bill "was deliberately drawn to enable the use of our military forces to destroy the system of separation of the races in the Southern states at the point of a bayonet, if it be necessary to take this step...
...Occasionally, at his press conferences, this awe and fear break through...
...On the other hand, Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in a Detroit speech angrily attacked Senator Wayne Morse (D.-Ore...
...have suddenly made the discovery that the GOP is boldly raiding their melon patch...
...celebrities of that race are rushed to the Capitol to be photographed with this ambitious young man...
...In the shifting relations between Washington and Moscow, "the maximum of distrust is gradually being replaced by a minimum of confidence," as one observer aptly put it...
...Eisenhower was asked about the charge by Senator Richard Russell (D.-Ga...
...Now, the next step, if this thing got out of hand, would be governmental controls in time of peace, and I believe governmental controls in time of peace is, means the beginning of the end...
...This is in defense and military aid, amounting Id 59 cents in every budget dollar...
...3. President Eisenhower shares the American public's almost mystical fear of a nuclear war...
...Shortly before the Korean War, conservative business interests, Chairman Edwin G. Nourse of the Council of Economic Advisers, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, and a World War II retired general named Dwight D. Eisenhower persuaded Congress to cut a big slice out of the military pie...
...Well, I would not want to answer this in detail, because I was reading part of that bill this morning, and I—there were certain phrases I didn't completely understand...
...He arranged to have disarmament chief Harold Stassen (who is called "Childe Harold" by the Nixon-ites) publicly reprimanded for talking to a Russian...
...He is attempting to come to terms with the Communist world without letting Senator William F. Knowland (R.-Calif...
...But Eisenhower rarely answers a question or provides revealing information...
...a bloodstained veteran of the civil-rights wars...
...In fact, after a White House conference, Knowland, unofficial leader of the civil-rights forces in the Senate, made it clear that the President was not opposed to changes in the Administration's civil-rights bill...
...know about it...
...He uses phrase9 which strike a nostalgic chord with the public, for they are the homey patriotism of McGuffey's Reader...
...The topsy-turvy nature of this whole Senate debate is glaringly apparent...
...Dulles is employing a favorite device, the diversionary tactic...
...The Secretary has made two headline diversions...
...He recalls the warning of his deeply religious mother that those who live by the sword shall die by the sword, and couples this with reports of H-bomb devastation...
Vol. 40 • July 1957 • No. 29
