Evening star., 1946-09-13

ara ndIS.
Individual Republicans may hold
enlightened views-but the Repub-
lican party as whole is irrevocably
committed to tariff and trade poll
cies which can only mean world
wide depression, ruthless economic
warfare and eventual war and If
the Republicans were in power In
the United States today, intelligent
people all over the world would fear
that once more we would be headed
straight for boom, bust and world
wide chaos.
noticed In the papers recently
that Governor Dewey doesn't like
my prophecies. 1 said weeks before
the last election-and said it re-
peatedly-that Franklin Roosevelt
would carry SO States and have a
popular majority of three million.
OF course, Mr.. Dewey didn't like that
one. I say now-as I have said re-
peatedly-that Republican foreign
economic policies carried into action
would mean disaster for the Nation
and the world. Mr.. Dewey won't
like that one either.
Republican Party Anachronistic.
The Republican party is the party
of economic nationalism and poll
tical isolation-and as such is as
anachronistic as the dodo and as
certain to disappear. The danger is
that before it disappears it may en-
JOY brief period of power during
which it can do irreparable dam
age to the United States and the
cause of world peace.
Gov. Dewey has expressed himself
as favoring an alliance of mutual
defense with Great Britain as the
key to our foreign policy. This may
sound attractive because we both
speak the same language and many
of our customs and traditions have
the same historical background.
Moreover, to the military men. the
British Isles are our advanced air
base against Europe.
| Certainly we like the British peo-
pie as individuals. But to make
Britain the key to our foreign policy
would be, in my opinion, the height
of folly. We must not let the reac-
tionary leadership of the Republican
party force us into that position. We
must not let British balance-of-
power manipulations determine
whether and wnen the United States
gets into war.
Make no mistake about 1.-THE
British imperialistic policy in the
Near East alone, combined with
Russian retaliation, would lead the
United States straight to war unless
we have clearly-defined and real
istic policy of our own.
Neither of these two great powers
want war now. but the danger is
that whatever their intentions may
be, their current policies may event.
ually lead to war. To prevent war
and insure our survival in a stable
world, it is essential that we look
abroad through our own American
eyes and not through the eyes of
either the British Foreign Office or a
pro-British or anti-Russian press.
Represents Administration Policy.
In this connection, I want one
thing clearly understood. am nei-
ther anti British nor pro-British-
neither anti-Russian nor pro-Rus-
sian. And just two days ago, when
President Truman read these words.
he said that they represented the
policy Of his administration.
I plead for an America vigorously
dedicated to peace-just as I plead
for opportunities for the next gener-
alton throughout the world to enjoy
the abundance which now, more
than ever before, is the birthright
of man.
To achieve lasting peace, we must
study in detail just how the Rus
sian character was formed-by in
vasions of Tartars. Mongols, Ger
mans. Poles, Swedes and French;
by the Czarist rule based on ig-
norance, fear and force; by the in
tervention of the British, French
and American in Russian affairs
from 1919 to 1921 by the geography
Of the huge Russian land mass
situation strategically between Eu-
rope and Asia; and by the vitality
derived from the rich Russian soil
and the strenuous Russian climate.
Add to all this the tremendous emo
tional power which Marxism and
| Leninism gives to the Russian lead