Evening star., 1943-09-12
Wa|Iaee's Suggestion
OF RooseveIt's Role in
Peace Hit by COP
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT,

dent Wallace's nomination of Presi-
| dent Roosevelt to be permanent
| chairman of the peace conference,
whenever it takes place, met with
cold reception from Republicans
here.
Werner w. Schroeder, Republican
national committeeman for Illinois,
said today:
THE Vice Presidents statement
is the beginning of the fourth term
campaign Mr.. Wallace was trying
to put over the idea that President
Roosevelt is the indispensable man,
whether the war is over at the time
of the next election or not"
Mr.. Schroeder pointed out that
presidential election takes place in
November, 1914, and on its outcome
will depend the extent of Mr.. Roose-
velt's participation in the peace con-
ference, if it takes place after the
election. Should there be a peace
conference before the election, the
President, of course, would represent
the United States, either in person
or through men of his selection.
COP Outlook Bright.
The Illinois committeeman said
Republican chances in the State
next year appeared particularly
bright.
The party has gained steadily
downstate and in Cook County out
side of Chicago and in some parts
of Chicago ITSELF" he said. Pointing
out that Senator Brooks carried the
State by 10000 votes in 1910 and by
205, 900 in 1912, he insisted that Mr..
Roosevelt has lost ground in Illinois.
Vice President Wallace's criticism
OF the Republican foreign policy
program, written at the recent
Mackinac Island conference, Mr..
Schroeder continued, was weak. Mr..
Wallace said the program had been
"skillfully constructed in the Re-
publican traditions of 1920, endeav-
oring in 1943 and 1914 to follow the
same line that was followed in 1919
and 1920" The New Dealers, Mr..
Schroeder said, will have difficulty
attacking the stand taken by the
Republicans in their program, IA
voring international collaboration.
They have not" he said, pro
duced any foreign policy of their
own as yet for the postwar world"
The next step in the drive to
commit the Republican party firmly
in support of international collabo-
ration after the war will be a re-
quest to the Republican members
OF the House and Senate, in party
caucus, to indorse the foreign policy
program laid down by the Repub-
lican Postwar Advisory Council at
Mackinac Island.
Council May Ask Action.
Such request may come from the
council itself. Representative Mar
tin of Massachusetts,, House minor
ity leader, and Senate Minority
Leader McNary, are both members
OF the council. Mr.. Martin attend
ed the Mackinac conference, al
though Senator McNary did not.
Deneen A. Watson, chairman of
the Republican Postwar Policy As
sociation, at the associations head
quarters here, said he hoped thisI
course would be followed In any
event, he plans to go to Washington
as soon as Congress reconvenes and
to urge on Senator McNary and
Representative Martin the wisdom
of such a course.
Mr.. Watson, who issued a state
ment commencing the council for
what it had done Immediately after
its policy program had been adopt
ed, said his organization would con-
tinue a drive to educate the people
of the country to the need of post
war collaboration on the part of
the United States. He considers this
essential
We cannot just sit back and
wait, he said. "The people must be
fully informed of the Importance
of international cooperation Fur
thermore, it is essential that the Re-
publicans nominate members of the
House and Senate who are friendly
supporters of this foreign policy
program. This is particularly true
in regard to the members of the
Senate, who eventually will have to
pass on any treaty of adherence to
'co-operaitve organization to
maintain peace and good relations
between the nations, proposed by
the advisory council"
Mr.. Watson intimated that his
association, through its committees
throughout the States, would take
an active part in the primary cleo
tions in which candidates for Con-
gress are nominated, and in party
conventions in other States.
The council has set up eight
permanent subcommittee to study
further the questions of postwar
policy, both foreign and domestic.
These subcommittee, 1t Is expected,
will make recommendations later
for more detailed programs. Both
domestic and foreign, on which the
council will pass-and later the Re-
publican national conventions Plat
form Committee, when it is in ses-
sion next year.
The Foreign Relations Subcom-
mittee is composed of the same
members as the temporary COM
mittee which drafted the program
adopted by the council, with Sem
ator Vandenberg of Michigan as
chairman. The problems of domes-
tic postwar policy have been di-
vided among seven subcommittee,
instead of being left in the hands
of single committee. as they were
at the Mackinac Island conference.
The Governors of States-who, on