National Affairs: Who's for Whom

Two days after the New Hampshire primary, Richard G. Jordan, who headed the successful Taft campaign in Manchester, reversed his field. He wrote Senator Taft: "We must win in November. I urge you to accept the decision of the New Hampshire voters as an indication of the desires of the nation and respectfully request that you here and now proclaim your full and unqualified support for General Eisenhower."

¶ At Frankfurt-am-Main, Overseas Weekly announced the results of a poll among American soldiers in General Eisenhower's NATO command. Their boss lost. The Republican vote: Taft 673, Ike 273, Earl Warren 263.

¶ Albert C. Wedemeyer, retired lieutenant general who is now a vice president of Avco Manufacturing Corp., announced that he favors "the able and forthright Senator from Ohio, Robert A. Taft."

¶ Retired Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, the chief of naval operations fired by Harry Truman in 1949. also came out for Taft: "[He] is a fighter and I think Truman is afraid of him."

¶The Chicago Tribune's gruff Colonel Robert R. McCormick, an unswaying Taftman, conferred with Eisenhower for half an hour at the general's headquarters in France. Then reporters asked: Will you support Ike if he gets the Republican nomination? Snorted the Colonel: "I would support the Republican candidate. I supported Dewey, for God's sake."