Evening star., 1945-04-08
Two Security Plans
Favored by Women
Members Of House
By PAULINE FREDERICK.

| BY PAULINE FhEDEHlCh.
If the views of woman members
of Congress are any indication of
how women of the Nation feel
about the Dumbarton Oaks and
Breton Woods proposals, support
ers of international cooperation
should be greatly encouraged.
Were these two programs to be
put before the women lawmakers
today for a vote, there would be
only one sure ballot against them
Furthermore, If these women's views
are any criterion, the battle for
approval of Dumbarton Oaks and
Breton Woods will be fought in
the Middle West.
These conclusions can be drawn
from a poll I made of all the wom-
an members OF, Congress except
Representative Clare Boothe Luce
of Connecticut, who is in Europe
The questions I put to the seven
women were:
Cd If you had a chance to vote
on Dumbarton Oaks today, how
would you vote?
Cd If you had chance to vote
on the Breton Woods agreements
today, how would you vote?
Only Indirect Opportunity.
Since the Dumbarton Oaks pro-
posal, when completed, will be in
treaty form and will go to the Sem
ate for ratification. the House
members will have only possible
indirect opportunity to express
themselves on it later when legisla-
ton for appropriations or other i'm
fermentation comes up. .On the
other hand, the Breton Woods
agreements are now before the
House Committee on Banking and
Currency.
Here is the result of the poll:
Approving both the Dumbarton
Oaks and Breton Woods programs
as they stand today: Emily Taft
Douglas, Democrat, of Illinois
Helen Gahagan Douglas, Democrat,
Of California; Margaret Chase
Smith, Republican. of Maine.
Sympathetic with the purpose of
both proposals but not yet ready
4 to commit themselves definitely on
specific details: Mary Norton,
Democrat, of New Jersey: Frances
Bolton, Republican, of Ohio: and
Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, Of
Massachusetts.
Only One Dissenter.
Definitely opposed to both Dunn
barton Oaks and Breton Woods
Jessie Sumner. Republican, of Illi-
ncis.
The lone dissenter. Oxford-edu-
Gated, eX-Judge Sumner, member
Of the House committee considering
the Breton Woods program. de-
clared:
The Dunbarton Oaks and Bret
ton Woods treaties are the two big
moves in a plan to lock our country
into Government by world bu-
reaucracy, probably dominated be-
fore long by Moscow. 1t is slick
and complicated scheme which will
rob the American people of their
rights, liberties, money and military
might. I have talked against it
through two elections. The OYER
whelming majority in my district
(the 18th)-men and women alike
has opposed it"
On the other hand, Representa-
ive-at-Large Emily Taft Douglas,
whose husband is a Marine in the
Pacific and who has done yeoman
service in international education
in her State, said:
II was elected for collective secur-
ity and my stand on foreign affairs
My constituents are interested pri-
marily in winning the war and
building the peace. Dumbarton Oaks
and Breton Woods will help build
the peace"
Mrs. Douglas is a member of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Show Divided Sentiment.
The opposing views of the ladies
from Illinois are indicative of the
divided sentiment in their State,
which may forecast a contest in
the Middle West over popular sup
port of the proposals.
Helen Gahagan Douglas, also a
member Of the Foreign Affairs
Committee, whose husband is in the
service too, bases her support for
Dumbarton Oaks and Breton Woods
on their indispensability to the
peace structure, with Breton Woods
"the cornerstone of the economic
might Of that structure"
1--WE cannot run out on humanity"
she says.
Mrs. Smith, a member of the
Naval Affairs Subcommittee which
has just concluded hearings in
Honolulu on congested war areas,
told me 1t was "unthinkable" to do