Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
States and abroad" Mr.. Brownell

States and abroad" Mr.. Brownell
said:
"Mr. Laski, as q guest speaker In
New York early this week, summed
up the choice for his audience Of
left-wing Democrats as follows:
There is no middle way, free enter
prise and market economy mean
war: socialism and planned econ
omy mean peace. All attempts to
find compromise are a satanic
Illusion"
Hits Left Wingers.
If the American people agree
with Mr.. Laski," MIR. Brownell con-
tinued, they should vote for the
so-called Democratic candidates. It
Is true that not all Democrats agree
with Mr.. Laski, but all agree that
to remain in power, the Truman
administration has to obtain the
votes of and compromise with the
left-wing groups in this country. If
the American people do not believe
in socialism, then they should vote
for Republican candidates.
'The American people are indebt-
ed to Mr.. Laski for presenting the
issue SO much more clearly and,
shall we say, more frankly than his
American 'fellow-travelers' have
dared to do"
Senator Hart, retired admiral and
commander of the Asiatic Fleet
when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor,
told his audience the Republicans in
and out of Congress had co-operated
on nonpartisan basis in carrying
forward American foreign policy and
would continue to do so.
The immediate problem of the
United States in the field of foreign
relations, Senator Hart said, lis to
achieve successful cooperation be-
tween America and Russia in meet
ing those problems which must be
solved If world security Is to be
obtained"
The birth and growth of the
United Nations Organization into
an organization for the prevention
OF wars seems to depend on the CO.
operation Of Russia and the United
States much more closely than does
any other relationship, singly or
collectively, he said.
Senator Hart warned against
panic over the atomic bomb and
urged that this country do every
thing possible to bring about q
strong United Nations Organization
for the preservation of peace, to
which in the future the problem OF
the atomic bomb and all other
devastating weapons may be re-
ferred.
Cites Extravagant Claims.
"Extravagant claims have helped
to support the thought that we
should plunge at once in wholly
new lines on international negotia-
tions," he said. For one thing, it
is proposed that we begin by scrap
ping all OF our atomic energy estab-
lishment and giving the world what
remains Of the secret.
Woulu RUSSIA, Tor instance, not
think us the worlds worst suckers
If we did that now? At any rate,
too many hold to the idea that
the atomic bomb has changed
everything and that we must have
worldwide new deal at once"
Gov. Blue assailed the Roosevelt
and Truman administrations, chare-
ing that slowly and surely, the Fed
eral government is destroying the
state and usurping the power re-
served to the people" He called the
New Deal administrators "dictators"
greedy for power. President Truman
has done nothing, Gov. Blue said, to
curb them or to reduce their num-
bers since the end Of the war. He
charged that governmental restric-
lions and regulations are strangling
production and preventing recon-
version; that the. OPA regula lions
have hampered business and in
many instances have forced higher
prices for inferior goods.