Evening star., 1944-06-18
By WENDELL L. WILLKIE.

By WENDELL L. WILLKIE.
The administration has made
many protestations of noble aims
in foreign policy, but when the
moment came to act on them, 1t
has hesitated and compromised.
It's foreign policy. has not been
to support American principles OF
freedom. 1t has dealt with the
Fascist elements in conquered
countries; it has disregarded the
will of the people of nthose coun-
tries; it has stubbornly and in
credibly refused to acknowledge the
Committee of Liberation as the
provisional French government 1t
has been canny and personal and
subjective. 1t has called this policy
expediency. But since the policy
has produced little but dislike, dis
trust and loss of prestige for the
United States without achieving
the intended political aims, 1t has
not been even expedlent.
The formulation of an affirmative
foreign policy by the Republican
party is thus particularly i'm
portant platform task.
One World-One Policy.
There have been sharp divisions
within the party concerning the ex-
tent to which it is desirable for the
United States to maintain and de-
velop relations with other nations.
But surely the long debate, the
events through which we lived
before the war. and the war itself
have made plain that American
policy cannot be- separated into
two unrelated compartments, one
labelled foreign policy and one
domestic policy. The two areas of
action are inseparable; what hap
pens in either Immediately affects
the other.
We are not living in several
worlds. Our small American farms,
our huge American factories, have
close bonds with what is produced
In the Andes and the hills of See
chuan, with the complex trade
mechanism of London, with the
cargoes that sail from Bombay and
Oslo and Melbourne. Whatever we
do at home constitutes foreign
policy. And whatever we do abroad
constitutes domestic policy. This is
the great, new political fact.
Furthermore, we have learned
conclusively that in the modern
world the United States cannot
survive militarily, economically or
politically without close and con-
tinuing cooperation with the other
nations of the world.
Platform Reflection Points.
In stating its foreign policy plat
form the Republican, party should
reflect this goth century knowledge:
/. It's platform should demand
the immediate creation of func-
tioning council of the United Ma
tions, as a first step toward the
ultimate formation of general
international organization, in order
that directly, or by representation,
all the peoples of the United Ma
tions may have voice in the political
decisions TINT are already beingf
made in the world. So far these
decisions are being made-or, inl
some cases, sidestepped and post
poned-by Great Britain, Russia and
the United States, with China
brought in as a courtesy member"
of the group where Asia lis con-
cerned.
Naturally the task Of safeguard
ing the world from aggression win
have to rest mainly on the shoulders
of the great powers. since they
alone possess the necessary military
force. But the peoples of the small
nations, and others not so small,
whose political status and economic
welfare are deeply involved In the
decisions to be made, will not and
should not permit three or four
great powers to continue to dictate
their destiny. They must have a
voice not only when decisions are
made affecting their own fate but in
shaping the world in which they
will live. This is right; it is what
will prove necessary In practice;
and in the long run it will be
advantageous to the national in
terest of a people with ideals like
ours.
2. The platform should be clear
and unambiguous in its attitude
toward sovereignty. 1t should not
adopt narrow nationalistic inter-
pretations of the term; nor should
it substitute quibbling words like
Integrity" 1t should emphasize