Who's for Whom

Among those who like Ike is Lieut. General (ret.) Robert L. Eichelberger, boss of the U.S. Eighth Army under Douglas MacArthur from 1944 to 1948, and MacArthur's top commander in the occupation of Japan. Last week Eichelberger offered a comment on his old chief's hostility to Eisenhower. He said he knew "at first hand" that MacArthur wanted to run for President in 1944 and again in 1948 and that he had hoped for Eisenhower's support. In return, he said, Mac was willing to back Ike for President in 1952. Said Eichelberger: "If General MacArthur felt that General Eisenhower was qualified [then], he should feel [that Ike is] even more qualified after his fine work as commander of NATO."

P: Sinclair Weeks, treasurer of the Republican National Committee and one of the party's leading lights in Massachusetts, took sides ringingly: "I ... urge ... my good friend, Bob Taft, to perform a supreme act of self-denial which will electrify the nation, instantly unite the party and guarantee victory, by coming out for Eisenhower."

P:The doggedly isolationist New York Daily News, the nation's biggest newspaper (circ. 2,251,430), surprised nobody by endorsing Taft as the man who can "start this country toward salvation from the Fascism and Socialism of Truman's misnamed Fair Deal." The News's candidate for Vice President: Dwight Eisenhower.

P:Mrs. Ellen Stevenson, who divorced Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson in 1949, last week told the Chicago Daily News: "Illinois needs him for governor, but our country needs a change of administration. One party has been in power too long ... I am going to vote Republican ... no matter who's running."

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