Evening star., 1943-08-02
Nationwide Campaign

| for Germany this fall.
Nationwide Campaign
Nine congressional teams, biparti-
san in make up, all advocating the
participation of the United States in
a world organization to maintain
| peace after the war shall have been
won, are spending the summer recess
touring the Nation. Their campaign
educational as it isis sponsored
by the United Nations Association.
The members are explaining to the
| people the Ball Burton Hatch Hill
resolution, sponsored by two Repub-
| lican and two Democratic Senators,
calling for American cooperation in
| international affairs, now before the
| Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
All four Senators whose names are
attached to this resolution are TAX
ing part in the campaign. In addi-
ton, Senators Truman of Missouri,
Ferguson of Michigan, Murray of
Montana, Maybank of South Caro-
lima and Thomas of Utah, and Rep
reSentatives Ramspeck of Georgia,
La Toilette of Indiana, Judd of Min
nesota, Case of South Dakota, Hale
of Maine. Wright of Pennsylvania,
Herter of Massachusetts,, Gale of
Minnesota, McMurray of Wisconsin
and Gore of Tennessee are on these
speaking tours They are carrying
the torch for international Coop
Grafton from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Canadian to
the Mexican border. All are giving
their services voluntarily.
Such a campaign is Of value. 1t
sets the American people to thinking,
and provides them with the infor-
nation necessary to make up their
minds on the future course which
the country should pursue. The re-
ports of the meetings which have
already been held by the congress
sional teams show a tremendous in
terest in the issue. 1t has long been
a tradition that the hotbed of isola-
tionism lies in the Midwest country.
The sentiment expressed, however,
in two typical States of that section,
Minnesota and Iowa, confirms the be-
lief that opinion has shifted greatly
on the question of foreign relations.
In Minnesota the issue of foreign
policy was debated at length during
the 1912 political campaign. At the
polls the voters overwhelmingly re-
elected Harold E. Stassen Governor
and elected Senator Ball, both of
whom are strong advocates of inter-
national cooperation and both of
whom had declared again and again
that the Nation should never return
to isolationiSm.
Eventually Congress will take ac-
tion on one of the many resolutions
which have been introduced favoring
the cooperation of the United States
with other nations to maintain
world at peace. The House Foreign
Affairs Committee already has re-
ported unanimously the Fulbright
resolution "a simple declaration
placing Congress on record as sup
porting such a program, without
going into the details of an interna-
tional organization.
The present effort to educate the
American people to the need of TAX
ing definite steps after the war to
insure the world against third
world war has the virtue of being
bipartisan, with Democratic and Re-
publican speakers discussing the
subject from the same platform. It
would be we'll, indeed, if this country
could show a united front on an
issue involving so vitality the inter-
ests of the whole people. The more
information the people are given, the
better they will be able to understand
and to express themselves to the
Congress when the time comes for
action