Evening star., 1947-01-31
Bridges Charges
Soviet Seeks 10
AbsorbGermany
Senator Coils for
Marshall 'Cruckdown'
At Moscow PurIey
BY the Associated Press

of New Hampshire, charging
that Russia's aim is to turn Ger
many into a satellite and ally"
called on Secretary of State
Marshall today to stand firm at
the forthcoming Foreign Min
listers Conference in Moscow.
"If Moscow succeeds in the great
design OF merging Russian man
power and German technical dis
cipline, the last chance of saving
democratic civilization will be lost, "
Senator Bridges declared in a state
ment.
THAT is why the scheduled Big
Power conference in Moscow March
l0 is so terribly important. It is
there that our new Secretary of
State will nave his first and most
decisive test"
Senator Bridges, a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, issued the statement only four
days after Senator Mcmahon, Demo-
crat, of Connecticut told his COL
leagues ne suspected Russia of build
ing an atomic plant in the Ural
Mountains and that this country
may be in mortal danger"
Sharply critical both OF Americas
wartime diplomatic dealings with
Russia and of the Soviet Unions
postwar activities, Senator Bridges
asserted:
Whatever accomplishments we
can claim in recent months, came
after we stiffened our policy with
an injection of the. iron of self re
spect
Lets not forget that our repre-
sentatives travelled a hard road, a
humiliating road, before they
reached, at long last, 4 policy of So
called patience and firmness.
While declaring that there is still
a lot more patience than firmness in
the amalgam," the New Hampshire
Republican added:
1--WE count on Secretary Marshall
to resist the efforts of noisy mi
nority, typifed by Henry Wallace
aid his fellow-traveling encourage,
to steer American foreign policy
back into the blind alley from which
it has only recently emerged"
President Truman last fall ousted
Mr.. Wallace as Secretary of Com
merce after the then cabinet officer
publicly criticized what he termed
Secretary of State Byrnes' get
tough-with- Russia" policy.
Senator Bridges, recalling the
ringing tributes paid to Mr.. Byrnes
on his retirement earlier this month,
said they spring from a public
awareness of the great handicaps
under which he started his term as
Secretary"
Inherited Sorry Mess.
Every one knows" the Senator
continued, that he inherited a
sorry mess of appeasement and
political muddling from the war
years." He added:
"The popular applause-let's be
candid about it's not for the
Secretary who was obliged, in the
first stage of his work, to make the
best of shabby and shameful bar
gains at the expense of other
peoples freedom.
1T is, rather, for the Secretary
aided by the able counsel of our
two colleagues, Senator Vandenberg
and Senator Connally-who showed
himself firm, persistent and con-
scious of principle in the latter
stages of his work"
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
of Michigan succeeded Senator Con-
nally, Democrat, of Texas as chair
man Of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee. Both served as foreign pol
icy advisers to Mr.. Byrnes for more
than year.
Lashing out at what he said his
torians probably will call "the great
American surrender at Yalta," Sen
ator Bridges said the United States
dissipated its moral prestige"
among peoples of the world" when
we allowed Russia to grab the ter
ritories of its neighbors and impose
its control on a hundred million
people through the old familiar
strong-arm methods ="
Paid Off in Contempt.
For our gifts of appeasement
we have been paid off in contempt,
broken pledges, calculated delay and
confusion-all of this against a
backdrop of worldwide anti-Amer-
ican propaganda"
Senator Bridges said, however
that "it will not do to put all the
blame on Russia. We can hardly
shrug off our share of response
bility."
He added that he is unable to
understand the 10y" within this
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