Evening star., 1944-06-27
COPS Peace Plank
Branded by Wi||kie
As Betrayal Of Youth
BY the Associated Press.

SCHNcleiOu Ill CulCdRO mao
under consideration a platform
plank proposing a postwar CO.
operative organization among
sovereign nations and expressing
opposition to joining world
state.
The 1910 Republican presidential
nominee, in statement, assailed
the proposals he said were under
consideration, declaring:
"The net result would be no inter-
national organization. No effective
force for the suppression of aggres-
sion. No peaceful world. Another
world war fought in vain. And the
youth of America once more be-
trayed."
Mr. Willkie demanded immediate
creation of a council of the United
Nations as a first step toward for
nation of general international
organization in order that all the
peoples of the United Nations would
have voice in the decision which
will shape the future world.
Warns Against Ambiguity.
These decisions should not and
must not be made by three or four
great powers alone," Mr.. Willkie
said.
He also asserted that I'VE cannot
afford in 1914 to be ambiguous" and
added:
The consequences as We may have
seen can be too grave. There must
be no playing with phoney phrases
such as world state or use of gentle
language such as peace forces OF
repeated emphasis on sovereign
nations with nationalistic impli-
cations. There must be no self
defeating requirements about SUBJ
mitting each and every individual
step in international cooperation to
the advice and consent of two thirds
of the United States Senator's"
1t was the first statement on
politics that Mr.. Willkie had made
since he quit the race for the Re-
publican presidential nomination
last April.
Wants Winning Strategy.
Before issuing the statement, Mr..
Willkie told newsmen that "as q
Republican I am desperately anx-
ious for my party to pursue a course
which will entitle it to win the
November election.
"As I am not delegate to the
convention, take this method of
presenting my views on the pro-
posed foreign relations plank to the
platform which, I understand, will
be presented to the convention to-
morrow"
He said he did not know whether
he would attend the convention
MIR. Willkie said the proposed
plank was read to him by telephone
from Chicago yesterday afternoon.
Quotes 1920 COP Plank.
He quoted the foreign relations
plank adopted by the Republican
party in 1920, setting forth the
party's views for the preservation OF
peace throughout the world.
THE Republicans won the election
OF 1920" Mr.. Willkie said in the
statement "A Republican President
claiming that he in no way re-
pudiated the party's platform, i'm
mediately after the election, an
nounced that the League of Nations
was dead.
"A Republican President elected
under the proposed platform of 1914
could, with equal integrity, announce
that the United States would not
enter any world organization in
which the nations agree jointly to
use their sovereign power for the
suppression of aggression. And
every effective world organization
proposed could be rejected as a
worlds state And, all proposed
joint forces for the suppression of
aggression could be called armed
forces and not peace forces"
And each proposed step taken by
any world organization in which we
might participate could be called a
treaty and as such would be sub
lect to ratification by thirds of
the United States Senate" Mr.
Willkie continued.
Five Paragraphs Made Public.
Mr.. Willkie described the person
with whom he talked in Chicago as
"a friend" but otherwise declined
to identify him.
Mr.. Willkie made public five para
graphs of the foreign relations plan
he said was under consideration In
Chicago. With parenthetical state
ments by Mr.. Willkie, they follow:
I'VE shall seek to achieve such
aims (aims to keep America secure,
to keep the Axis powers impotent
to renew tyranny and attack, and
to attain peace and freedom based
on justice and security through
| organized international co-opera-
ton and not by joining a world
state
I'VE favor responsible participa-
ton by the United States In
postwar cooperative organiza ton
among sovereign nations to prevent
military aggression and to attain
permanent peace with organized
justice in free world.
Collaboration Pledge.
Such organization should de-
velop effective cooperative aims to
direct peace forces to prevent or
repel military aggression. Pending
this we pledge continuing collabo-
ration with the principal United
Nations to assure their ultimate OBJ
jectives.
'It tsuch organized cooperation
should promote world opinion te
influence the nations to right con-
duct. develop international law anc
maintain an international tribuna
to deal with adjustable disputes. -
80 Pursuant to the Constitu-
ton of the United States any treat,
made on behalf of the United States
with any other nation or any as
sociation of nations shall be made
only by and with the advice anc
consent of the Senate of the United
States provided two-thirds of the
Senators present concur"