Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-06-26

{ party launches the snip and the
other salvages the wreck. 1t is
high time to make this fact
clear. On the rare occasions
when Republicans have been
f, consulted, buldner and disaster
have been avoided.
The Republican party has a
vq.iy definite program for am
American foreign policy. That
pragram was created at the
Mackinac Conference in 1913
! and confirmed in our platform
in 1914. 1t is a simple and clear
pledge to work for a lasting
peace based on justice and free
dom and to preserve the streng-
tn Of America. We adopted the
Atlantic Charter-that abandon
ed waif, forsaken during tine
New Deals tryst with Com
munism.
The Republican party in Con-
gress has supported it's own
principles Of international COOP
GRAFTON in full measure. Repub-
licans helped to create the Uni
ted Nations, jhave done their
best to make it work. Republi-
can Congressman voted funds
for foreign relief and recovery
because they wanted to check
the spread Of Communism and
to aid freedom in Europe.
Our next step to save the
peace and to achieve the goals
Of Republican foreign policy is
to elect Republican President
Of the United States.
A Republican President will
: man the State Department with
personnel who will make our
! diplomacy respected in every
corner OF the world. 1t is an
old and tried Republican tradi-
ton that American influence
shall be felt wherever America
has legitimate duty in the
world outsid eour gates. 1t was
Lincoln's Secretary of State,
! William HI. Seward, who held
off European intervention in our
Civil War. 1t was a Republican,
Seward, who reaffirmed the
j Monroe Doctrine in Mexico
where foreign despots had seat
ed Macmillan on a paper throne.
1t was Lincoln's Sewrad who
saw our great stake in the Paci-
fic and who purchased Alaska
and sought the annexation of
Hawaii.
1t was another Republican
Secretary Of State, James G.
Blaine, who originated Pan
Americanism and who created
the policy of reciprocal trade.
j 1t was a Republican Presi-
dent and Secretary Of State VINO
made Hawaii part of this ma
| ton and an outpost of defense
in the Pacific. 1t was Republi-
can Secretary of State John Hay
who opened the doors to China.
1t was a Republican President
and Secretary Of State who tri-
, ed to check japanese, aggression
at its outset in 1881.
These are not the marks of a
timid forein policy. They are
the wise tradition Of a nation
growing in worldwide influence.
Seward, Blaine, Hay, Root,
Hughes and ,Kellogg-htese were
the makers Of real American
world oplicy. Merely to recall
them is to blast the New Deal
falsehood that the Republican
party is timid or provincial in
its foreign policy. 1t is the New
Deal party's retreat before the
Iron Curtain in Europe and Asia
which threatens to isolate
America.
The Republican party propos-
es restore the respect and con-
| fidence of the world in American
diplomacy.
Intelligence and firmness in
the right, as God gives us to
see the right, can yet save the
peace and answer the prayer in
(which the whole world joins.
We shall not deceive, you, as
did the Democrats before two
world wars, by crying peace
when there was no peace. We
not only hate war, bue we shall
do nothing to provoke war.
Rather, we shall pursue every
avenue to peace. We make in
this convention a real covenant
for peace.
With our best will and our
best skill we must meet the
challenge of Communism. Com
munism is a worldwide infec-
ton OF false doctrine. 1t grows
upon darkness and poverty and
hunger. Our defense at home
and abroad is not in arms
alone, but in every means that