Ike Urges European Acceptance Of U.S. Missiles and Warheads; Johnson Seeks Holaday Ouster

PARIS, Dec. 15--President Eisenhower, on the eve of NATO's summit conference, opened the way a little wider for European acceptance of American nuclear missiles to bolster the alliance's front lines against the Soviet threat.

In an hour's consultation, he urged French Premier Felix Gaillard, apparently with some success, to take a warmer view of an American offer to put intermediate range missiles and nuclear warheads on the European front facing Soviet Russia.

Meanwhile, the United States and Britain were reported agreed that the Western Allies should resist, at least for the time being, Soviet proposals for new East-West talks and for banning nuclear weapons in Central Europe.

Informed diplomats said some smaller nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization broadly support the British-American position. At the same time, they added, there is a considerable body of opinion among important European members of NATO, notably West Germany, which favors careful study of the Soviet proposals and which opposed any door-slamming acts by the alliance as a whole to the latest Soviet approaches.

Holaday Ouster Urged

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15--Secretary of Defense McElroy faced strong senatorial pressures today to replace missiles direct to William M. Holaday and shake up the top civilian command of the missiles program.

Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas called for replacement of officials he said had permitted vital missile decisions to "get lost somewhere in the Defense Department."

Holaday apparently failed to impress Democratic subcommittee members when he testified Friday that he has the "sense of urgency" most of them say is needed to catch up with the Russians in space weapons.