Evening star., 1943-09-05
Limit Of One Six-Year
Term for President
Proposed by Bricker
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Stad Writer.

FAsoLJ SoullClA-dlc sdIllSIuls
here to write, If they can, {
sound foreign policy for the
party which will not be JUS
sound"
A dozen or more proposals fol
such a policy will be thrown into
the hopper, for consideration by 6
subcommittee when the council get:
down to business today.
Meanwhile there was considerable
discussion of a proposal offered by
Gov. Bricker of Ohio that the Re-
publican Party submit a constitu-
tional amendment limiting the
tenure of the President to one term
of six years.
Gov. Bricker's statement, issued
In Columbus before leaving for
Mackinac, said further that the
party should take the position in
the coming campaign both in its
platform and through its candidate
for a single term of four years for
the next President of the United
States"
The major question on foreign
policy is how far should the party
go-or the United States should 20
in the matter of international CO.
operation for the preservation OF
peace. A canvas of members of
the council-most of them already
here-turns thumbs down on what
is termed "super-world govern
ment."
Vandenberg Resolution in, Favor.
The chances appear to favor the
adoption of foreign policy along
the lines laid down in the Vanden-
berg-White concurrent resolution.
This resolution calls for
Q The prosecution of the war
to conclusive victory.
~ The participation by the
United States in postwar co-opera-
tion between sovereign nations to
prevent by any necessary means the
recurrence of military aggression
and to establish permanent peace
with justice in free world.
CD The present examination of
these aims, so far as consistent
with the united war effort, and their
ultimate achievement by due corr
stitutional process and with faithful
recognition of American RESPONSE
bilities and American interests.
Such a statement of policy does
not meet the desires of those Re-
publicans who, like Senator Austin
OF Vermont, Gov. Thye of Mime
sofa, who is presenting program
based on the ideas of former Gov.
Stassen, now in the Navy, or of
Senator Ball of Minnesota and SEN
ator Burton of Ohio, who are spon-
sors with Senators Hill of Alabama
and Hatch of New Mexico, Demo-
Gratis, of Senate resolution which
commits this country to far more
definite program of international
cooperation. 1t will, howeverssneet
the views of a very considerable
number OF the members of the
council.
Senator Vandenberg, high-rank-
Ing member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and also i
member OF the council, is likely to
be chosen as chairman of the sub
committee which will deal with for
eign relations plank of the program
which will be written by the council.
Eyes Turned on Island.
One thing now appears certain. at
this meeting the council will write
a foreign relations formula-which
the Republican party may or may
not adopt when it meets in national
convention next year. The eyes of
the country and of the world are
turned to this island today to see
Just what may be expected of the
COP. The council is on the spot
and will have to produce.
Deneen A. Watson, national
chairman of the Republican Post
war Policy Association which Is not
to be confused with the Postwar
Advisory Council, aimed a radio
broadcast from Chicago tonight di-
rectly at the council meeting. He
said the attention of the Nation is
focused on the council.
I'VE ask you, the council of 40. to
be positive and specific in your dec
laration of foreign policy" Mr..
Watson said. He then laid before
the council the proposal of the Post
war Policy Association, which in
cludes unconditional surrender and
disarmament of the Axis powers,
occupation of the Axis nations by
the forces of the United Nations,
punishment OF Axis leaders, the es-
tablishment of council of nations
to prevent by force the rise of new
forms Of aggression, the establish
ment Of regional divisions of the
council of nations to handle purely
regional disputes, the establishment
of a world court to adiudicate in
ternational disputes, the creation of
an international police force, and
the creation of an expanding world
economy and the maintenance OF
economic peace.
Program TO WILKES Liking.
This is the kind of program which
Wendell l.. Willkie is believed to
sponsor-since a great many of his
friends are prominent members of
the Postwar Policy Association. MIR.
Willkie was not named a member of
the Republican Postwar Advisory
Council by Chairman Spangler of
the Republican National Committee
nor was he invited to attend the
present meeting Of the council
Mr.. Willkie has been prime
mover in the effort to get the Re-
publican party away from its old