Evening star., 1944-06-27
Organization Using
Peace Forces for
Security Fovored
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspoudent

made public its foreign policy
plank pledging cooperation
with other nations to prevent
war, with no material changes
since Wendell WILKES attack on
It as ambiguous last night.
The final draft that will go to the
this afternoon also ap-
peared to be substantially the same
as it stood yesterday before a dele
cation of 16 governors urged the
committee to make the platform
as clear as possible.
The text places the Republicans
on record as promising to bring
members Of the armed forces home
at the earliest possible time after
the fighting is over, unless they
have unexpired enlistments or
volunteer to remain.
Along with the foreign policy
plank. the committee revealed the
party's aims on social security,
housing and some other domestic
In another portion Of the plat
form dealing with the maintenance
Of postwar armed forces, however,
the committee approved pro-
vision some members interpreted as
a gesture toward those, like Mr..
Willkie who have been demanding
that the United States join an in
ternational organization with mill
tary force to preserve peace.
Approves Postwar Force.
The platform declared at this
point for "the maintenance of post
war military force and establish
ments of ample strength for the
successful defense and the safety Of
the United States, its possessions
and outposts, for the maintenance of
the Monroe Doctrine and for meet
ing any military commitments de-
termined by Congress.
The latter pledge to have armed
forces available for any use ap-
proved by< Congress suggested the
possibility Of a military allotment
to an international organization to
enforce peace. some said.
The committee still Is in session
on the remainder Of the platform,
but hopes to have the entira docu-
ment raady to Be taken 10 the con-
vention hall for approval ~ evening.
As approved by the committee
the foreign plank pledges prcsecu-
ton Of the war to total victory
and propos1s to achieve peace aims
through International cooperation
and not by joining a world state
It favored responsible pArtici-
patton by this country in 4 "co-
operative organization among sov-
ereign nations" to prevent aggres-
sion and said such an organization
should develop effective co-opera-
tive means to direct peace forces
to prevent or repel military aggres-
sion."
Vandenberg Headed Group.
A tentative draft of the plank was
written originally by a postwar ad-
visory group headed by Senator
Vandenberg Of Michigan. To this,
The Resolutions Committee added
! statement promising to keep the
people informed concern
ng agreements with foreign nations
and pledging the widest consulta-
lion" with members of the armed
forces in foreign policy matters.
The final draft contained a state
nent that peace agreements would
be submitted to the Senate to be
ratified by a two-thirds vote as
treaties.
On Western Hemisphere relations
the platform promised to "deyelop
pan American solidarity" with CO.
operation through mutual agree
ment and without interference in
the internal affairs of any nation. +"
The proposed domestic program
OF the party emphasized the rights
OF private enterprise and State gov
ernments as preferential to those of
the Federal Government and the
President.
Employment Program.
Promising to promote "the fullest
stable employment through private
enterprise" the platform said "the
remedies we propose shall be based
on intelligent cooperation be-
tween the Federal Government. the
States and local government and
the initiative of civil groups, not on
The panacea of Federal cash.
-Four years more Of New Deal
poncy would centralize all power in
the President. and would daily sub
]ect every act of every citizen to
regulation by his henchmen, and
This country could remain a repub-
nc only In name" it said. mo prob
em exists which cannot be solved
oy American methods. We have no
need for either the Communistic Or
the Fascist technique"
Expansion of the social security
program was pledged with an as
'urance that the existing private
practice of medicine would not be
Social Security Proposals.
States rights also were empha-
sized in the administration of a
social security program which the
platform set forth under five points:
/, Old age and unemployment
insurance for those not already
covered.
2. Return of the public employ
nent agency Offices to the States.
3. A study of Federal-State pro-
grams for maternal and child
health, and assistance to the blind,
With a view to strengthening these
programs.
4. Federal stimulation of State
olans to provide medical and hos
,ital service for the needy without
doctor-patient relation
hips or socializing medicine"
S. Stimulation of State and local
ow-cost housing plans when such
(See PLATFORM, Page A-4.)
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