Evening star., 1924-06-25
PRESENTS FOREIGN
RELATIONS PLANK
Owen D. Young Surprises Platform
Builders by Sudden
Proposals.
ASKS CLOSER FRIENDSHIP
Scores World Policies Followed
by Republicans.

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 25.-A vigorous
foreign relations plank was submit
ted today to democratic platform
builders by Owen D. Young of New
York who was member or the
Dawes reparations commission.
Appearing suddenly at continue
ton of the public hearings, Mr..
Young was subjected to lengthy
questioning by members Of the com
mittee both favorable and unfavor-
able to an expression regarding the
league of nations.
Plan Already Discussed.
The Young foreign relations plank,
which already had been the subject of
members of the committee, assails the
foreign policy of the present admins
tration and declares for cooperation
with or participation in such organiza-
tions, including the league of nations.
as may be helpfully functioning in the
social and economic rehabilitation of
the world
Such cooperation would be under
such terms as will. on the one hand,
protect the sovereignty and independ-
ence of our government. and, on the
other, enable it to render its full
service and receive its full benefit
from the common and enlightened
action of all the nations"
Text Of Plank.
The text of the plank follows:
In fairness to ourselves and to the
world it is essential that the foreign
policy of the United States be con-
sistent and continuous, and that its
decision be uninf1uenced by partisan
controversy on domestic issues. Next
to aggressive unfairness, there is no
greater promoter of misunderstood
ing or menace to peace than weak
ness, vacillation or cowardly reserve
in dealing with other nations. The
Democratic party stands for a sound,
firm and definite foreign policy, and
the open, courageous and official exc
cution of such policy
Declarations on foreign relations,
farm relief, prohibition and the Ku
Klux Klan formed the most difficult
problems confronting the subcommit-
tee, which was called to begin its
labors at 10 am under the chair
manship of Homer s. Cummings of
Connecticut, who also heads the full
committee.
Members of the drafting committee,
which is made up of William Jen-
nings Bryan, Florida; William H.
OBrien, Indiana: William A. Ayres,
Kansas; Senator David 1. Walsh,
Massachusetts,: former Senator Gill
bert NJ. Hitchcock of Nebraska, Sena-
tor Key Pittman Nevada; Newton D.
Baker, Ohio: Senator Robert L. Owen,
Oklahoma, and Representative Finis
J. Garrett, Tennessee. were optim-
istic, but not inclined, before they
went into executive session. to make
definite predictions as to when they
would finish their task.
League and Dry Law.
The hearing of the full commit
tee, which was begun shortly after
adjournment Of the opening session
Of the convention yesterday after
noon, continued until after l o'clock
this morning, with most of the ora
tory centering about the league of
nations and prohibition.
A large number of other subjects
were discussed, however, by spokes-
men for various organizations and
groups, and the committee was
warned by Representative Harry B.
Halves of Missouri and julius Aitchele
of Colorado that the fight for a spe-
cific denunciation of the ku Klux
Klan would be carried to the con-
vention floor if the name of the order
should be aeft out of the civil and
religious liberty" plank by the plat
form drafters. Committeeman from
Massachusetts,, Ohio, Minnesota and
Wisconsin also went on record as
urging mention of the Klan, and
when opposing{ views were invited by
the chair, including a call for I'm
perial Wizard Evans, no voice was
raised against the proposal.
Desk Is DeluEed.
When the hearing opened members
of the committee were asked to file
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