ADAMS CASE SEQUEL

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 11

ADAMS CASE SEQUEL

Nixon Advises Republicans

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 21 Vice-President Nixon, seeking to calm Republican jitters over the Sherman Adams controversy, says that party leaders should close ranks and not panic. In a pep talk last night to Republican Party State chairmen. Mr Nixon said: “The trouble with Republicans is that when they get into trouble they start acting like a bunch of cannibals.” Mr Nixon's words were reported by two State chairmen, who said the Vice-President made no direct reference to Mr Adams, President Eisenhower’s chief assistant. A growing number of Republican Congressmen have called for Mr Adams to step down or be dismissed because of alleged acceptance of favours from a Boston industrialist, Mr Bernard Goldfine.

Mr Nixon also was said to have told the chairmen that Republicans. when in trouble, tended to battle each other instead of fighting the Democrats, the American Associated Press reported. He was host to the chairmen at the end of a campaign school During the meeting, the chairmen were solit on the Adams issue when their views were sought by renorters.

Representative Oren Harris (Democrat. Arkansas) has announced that Mr Goldfine has agreed to aupear on July 1. with records, before the House of Representatives Sub - committee which began the Adams incident. The suh-committee has been investigating alleged pressures on Federal regulatory agencies.