1957-12-07 — Page 7

Nixon-

the

man

now

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1967.

Cummings

wait

-ing

in the wings

New adversary.

almost looked as if his political curcer had been self-torpedoed.

ke ran high, most people had only sonide remarks about the youthful Vice-President.

The sheer Intensity, of the man I compared him al the time to a member of the of

Inquisition-and the way in which he kept bringing speeches, angered many wing Americans.

IKE'S latest illness means that Nixon suddenly Spanish

Left-

becomes the man with whom we in Britain the issue of subversion into his and the whole world on both sides of the Iron Curtain-must now deal.

But during the first four years

State Wat thought by the experts to be apathetic, if not Gownright hostlie, to Nixon.

But the day went with a bang. Cheers and more cheers

and Nixon never put a

foot

Elsenhower's Republican Government, where Nixon was

concerned, the most amazing wrong. transformation took place.

Nixon knew what emotions he had aroused. He knew well There was a time when Nixon how much he was hated

For it is Richard Milhous Nixon, aged 44, a man with stood in some danger of being decried on the Left. ideas, ambition, and a strong streak of ruthlessness, tarred with the McCarthy who will-whatever happens now to the ageing and brush. enfeebled Eisenhower — increasingly

tho burden of the World's No. 1 Job.

We must deplore Ike's ill- ness and sympathise with this brusque interruption of his second term as Presi-· dent.

But I consider that in many ways it is as well for the West that another man, younger and more vigorous, industrious and ready for action, takes over now.

Where İke was withdrawn from the fray and in- creasingly fruil In the leadership which Amerien so Dorely lacke, Nixon is full of zest, full of ideas.

inke

over

Attacks of the most tramen- dous intensity were made оп

by RENE MacCOLL

week and the prospect that Nixon would be the man is welcomed.

AL first in Congress Nixon cut little lee. He was a thin, dark man with burning eyes and

the sort of Intense manner which falled to recommend him to his back-slapping and joke-telling colleagues.

But his big break inte inter- when he was a member of the national fame came In 1943 House of Representatives com-

mittee en un-American activi- flea.

I was in Washington at that time and covered the sensational bearings during which Alger

hlm. Instead of riding with the punches, Nixon, in the presi- dential compaign of 1952 when for the first time he was the "running mate" of General Eisenhower, then trying for the White House after returning from Europe-hit back

hard

VITY

and

HIS LIFE

LIVER since that day in Octo- read He carefully

all the since when he had his attacks on him, realised that he

heart attack while he was on was called "The Hatchet Man holiday in Denver, Nixon had of the Right Wing." and even heard the wings of history beat sometimes referred to aÅ BIL at his shoulder. inner Fascist.

By his sober and enleuiated plarining with one or two close political advisers and with

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The night in Washington that he heard the news: "I did not sleep a wink at all."

his wife, Nixon methodically set

slipped Instead Dick Nixon about "making himself over," across to the house of a trusted the Americans say-transforming friend where he could be out of the image of himacie which had the way of telephones and until then been accepted by the callers. American public.

men

But the next morning he This was a terribly tough task. became aware of something When you remember the wild significant. For as he went off sometimes hysterical-surge of

to work he realised that a big In the middle of the '52 American newspapers, radio and group of Secret Service campaign it was alleged that TV publicity, when you realise was tralling him instead of the Nixon had recelved Improper that for years. AF one com normal single offleer, financial help in his political mentator recently put it, "Dick big-business men. activides from some Californian Nixon had practically

koms and a tail" to convince Amerien that he was something quite different, took a lot doing.

Overnight the affair roared into the headlines. Once more it looked very much as though Dick Nixon was "politically a dead duck

Nixon then decided on a bold

stroke, While all America looked

CHEERS

There can be no doubt that Nixon, although he has conducted himself with the greatest tact and restraint, Hiss, then the darling of the has been quietly preparing State Department, Wus called himself for just such an before congressmen and asked

on, he and his extremely beauti- DEDICATION emergency that has now about suggestions that he was a

Communist and a spy for Soviet and charming wife appeared

Nixon happened since Eisenhower's Russia,

un TV and

gave heart attack in October

straightforward accounting matters. 1955,

Hiss ut first toyed with the committer. They were ready to Not so long ago Nixon excuse Hiss with apologies, but was execrated by millions of young Nixon objected Americans,

He was regarded as 1 self-seeking renetionary, a man who might be more of a political ability than an asset.

ANGER

own Initiative he his pursued the investigation and through sheer determination But the night the news and ruthlessness got admissions from lss which later confirm- came through in the New ed the basis of the State De

York Stock Exchange pariment nan being found brokers

freely ex- gulity and gnoled,

were

changing bets on the likeli- But although he had got Hiss hood of a new President in gaoled, Nixon had made so many the White House within a enemies in the process that It

of

It was a bit "corny," a little Ipo emotional--and he even had his dog in the studio with him.

But it worked.

û

Next day there was triumphant roar of exoneration from the American public-and Nixon, flying to join Ike,

Was received by Ike with mutual tears and assurances of respect.

When Ike's first term began parly In 1953 people, were sit contemptuous of his "run- ning mate."

grown

of

Over- to an worked word. But for what

it is worth it is on the record that one of Nixon's closest as- sociales sold of him "He is de- dicated to being Vice-President and to nothing else."

seber

A

Blowly, zmazingly Nixon began to emergo да 4 citizen. He began to show sense of responsibility.

He even began to show a sense of diplomacy.

Even as lately as last yeur's presidential election eampaign there were still doubts as to whether Nixon was really a man to parade in public.

I saw Nixon triumphantly refute these doubts once for Jibes and hostile cartoons in all I spent a day flying with the papers were ten a penny, him here and there across While the chorus of praise for Connecticut. The New England

Abruptly he had become.... iterally-iho man "a

heart's bent away from the presidency " And that is just what he is today.

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