Evening star., 1945-12-07
Green Asserts Truman
Is Defeated in Every
Diplomatic Skirmish
BY the Associated Press.

ny Inc hsSoCldtto rIeos.
CHICAGO, Dec. Gov
Dwight H. Green of Illinois
charged before the Republican
National Committee today that
the Truman administration had
suffered the most humiliating
defeat in history" by losing
every skirmish" on the interna-
tional diplomatic front.
In a vigorous address possibly
presaging his candidacy for the Re-
publican presidential nomination In
l948, the Illinois Governor asserted
We have been told that we should
not raise our voice against the rape
of Java by the British and Dutch
for fear of offending some voters,
I'VE have been told we must not
even protest against the shameful
betrayal of Poland for fear of Of
tending Russia's following over
here"
Republicans must make up their
minds in the first peacetime meet
ing OF the National Conmitte in
four years, whether they are going
to fish or cut bait, he declared.
Wants Leverage Used.
1T must be our vigorous policy
to use the leverage afforded by the
discussion of forgiveness of lease
lend, or of requests for new loans
and every other peaceful means to
speed the liberation of the people
of these nations
The Governors speech came as
Republican committeeman gathered
TOT approve what most OF them re-
garded as generahzed policy state
ment issued by House and Senate
Republicans.
Gov. Green came forth with far
more than the welcoming" speech
for which he had been marked down
on the program.
He told the National Committee
it ought to propose a complete
about face from the weak and vacil-
lating Truman New Deal diplomacy
which has suffered the most hui
initiating defeat in American his
tory"
Sees Four Freedoms Violated.
with the greatest military force
In the world" he declared, "it has
lost every skirmish on the diplo-
matte front. The Four Freedoms
and the Atlantic Charter not only
have been disregarded, but specific
ally violated"
Declaring that American diplom-
acy under President Truman has
become the abject servant of Brit
iSh, French and Communist i'm
perialism,'' Gov. Green said that
power politics again rules the world
and the Truman administration had
stood helplessly by"
Without offering any specific So
luton for the international prob
lem, the Illinois Governor turned to
a discussion of domestic issues with
the assertion that the time has
come to bring national expenditures
down to the tax receipts of our
national Government"
He urged that Congress enact leg
islation requiring full publicity to
all deals for disposal of surplus war
gopds or alien property"
Of the labor management contro-
versy, he said:
rive believe that most of our labor
conflicts could be settled promptly
if management and labor were free
toI negotiate in their own interests"
He noted that war veterans are
coming home to the greatest hous-
Ing shortage in the history of
Al 1nerica," and said this was pro-
drtced by New Deal policies both be-
fofe and during the war"
fThe people are tired of double
talk" Gov. Green declared. mo
party can be all things to all men.
Let us Republicans be true to our
selves and our honest beliefs.
predict that if We do that, we shall
gain 10 votes for every one we lose"