The Nome Nugget

Connecticut Congressman Urges Ike Offer Goodwill Seat to Demo. Critics

By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

AUGUSTA, Ga., (AP) -- President Eisenhower is mulling over a proposal that he ask Harry S. Truman to go along on next month's goodwill visit on three continents, a White House spokesman says.

Wayne Hawks, acting White House Press Secretary, told a news conference questioner yesterday: "He has it under consideration, yes."

But one obvious obstacle in the way of turning the President and former President into traveling companions is that for seven years there hasn't been much goodwill between them.

And a spokesman for Truman said in Kansas City that Truman knew nothing of the idea.

It was Senator Thomas Dodd (D-Conn) who suggested that Eisenhower make his 20,000-mile tour of 11 nations a bi-partisan affair. He wrote a letter to the Chief Executive Friday proposing that Eisenhower invite one or more Democrats experienced in international affairs.

In addition to Truman, the senator mentioned Dean Acheson, who was Truman's Secretary of State; Adlai E. Stevenson, the loser to Eisenhower in the 1952 and 1956 Presidential campaigns, and Representative Chester Bowles (D-Conn), former ambassador to India.

India, with Red China glowering across her northern border, is a high priority point on the tour.

Eisenhower will spend more time there than in any other country.