Evening star., 1945-08-25
Nation Kept in Dark
On Truman Policies,
BrowneN Charges

charging that the country Is
still in the dark in regard to the
Truman administrations poll
cies, foreign and domestic,
Chairman Herbert Brownell, jr.,
of the Republican National Com
mittee, in a radio address last
night. said "the Republican goal
at the coming session of Con-
gress will be to demand a full
public statement of administra-
ton policies"
The Republicans. he said, will
point out to the American people
the fundamental conflict between
certain administration policies and
the Republican policies. so that they
can intelligently vote for a new
Congress in the 1916 elections.
The Truman administration, Mr.
Brownell continued, will be &C
countable for making the peace
machinery set up under the United
Nations Charter work, in so far as
1t lies within the power of America
to do SO.
Concerned About Future.
I'VE Republicans" he said. Shall
do our utmost to see to it that
American ACTIVITIES under the
United Nations Charter are COM
patible with the purposes for which
the American people fought this
war
Many Americans look with deep
misgivings at the world today. We
see large sections of Europe
shrouded ip mystery. We see whole
nations in which American Govern
ment officials, despite the advent of
peace, are restrained in their ac-
tivities, and where American press
and radio have not yet been per-
nitted to send representatives and
to report freely"
In these areas, Mr. Brownell said,
millions of American citizens had
their origin. They are vitality in
terested for the well-being of their
relatives in those areas. Despite
promises made at Potsdam, he in
sisted, these conditions had not
been remedied. He said, too, that
the Republicans are concerned for
the political future of these areas
abroad, and whether they are to
have free elections" or something
quite different.
Will Scan Commitments.
The scope of our manpower and
fiscal commitments abroad are also
to come under Republican scrutiny,
Mr. Brownell said. He declared
that the country should know how
many American boys are to be
drafted to police foreign countries,
and how many billions of dollars
are to be expended. He said the
United States fiscal commitments
abroad already are about 10 billion
dollars. OF this amount 31s billion
are to be channeled through the
Export Import Bank, another bill
lions or more through the newly
created international Bank, ~ bill
lions through the International
Monetary Fund and at least 1h
billions through UNRRA.
How can any intelligent tax re-
duction program be framed without
more information on this score"
asked Mr.. Brownell. 1--WE should
like, to. be reassured that. the ad-
nninistration is accepting these CO.
lossal obligations as part of ma
tured plan, and not as, day to day
improvisation of our economic. fiscal
relationships with the rest of the
world"
The Big Three, he said, have met
by twos and threes from Quebec to
Yalta and Potsdam, and the admin
istration leadership has told the
people what it chose to tell them.
Yet the decisions made at these
conferences, he insisted. are prac-
tically irrevocable. I'VE have not
been told yet the terms of the
Italian armistice concluded in the
autumn of 1943." he added.