Evening star., 1948-10-12
BY the Associated Press

by InV %ssOSto'u1 TWO
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 12.-
FOLLOWING is the tert OF today's
, address by Gou. De,Uey. Republic
can presidential nominee, on
foreign policy:
The most important job that faces
the American Nation today is to
create a lasting peace. Everything
we do and hope to do in these
United States hangs on that one
fundamental. There must be peace
with justice in the world. We must
wage peace with all the skill and
courage and determination with
which we waged and won the war.
The task requires mighty sense
Of unity, welding our people to-
gether in this single purpose. There
can be no division among us upon
our objectives and we shall also
have agreement on the methods of
reaching them. We must stand SOL
idly behind our bipartisan repre-
sentatives at all international con-
ferences.
In this endeavor we have aban-
doned partisanship to speak through
q bipartisan foreign policy. That
was the great objective when first
proposed to Secretary Hull during
the election campaign four years
ago that we have cooperation be-
tween our two parties to win the
peace. That was the beginning of
our bipartisan foreign policy.
1t was here in Louisville four years
ago that I first publicly discussed
in detail my hopes for lasting peace
through this kind of cooperation
between political parties to keep
politics out of the peace. said
then that only through a nonparti-
san approach to the shaping OF a
peace structure could America
achieve unity of purpose. I told of
the practical beginning had made
with Secretary of State Hull in BIZ
partisan cooperation to establish
an international organization for
peace and security. AS a result,
both parties had begun working to-
gether. A pattern had been laid
which could be followed year after
year, regardless of the party in
power.
Raps Soviet StubbOrnness.
That was the right course then.
After four years of practical op-
Grafton, it is now even clearer that
this is the right course for our coun-
try. In this election year, the BIZ
partisan foreign policy is the means
by which we can speak with united
voice in the crisis we face.
Unless the Republicans had been
giving full cooperation to the Dem
ocratic administration, we should
have no strength in the present
grave meetings of the United Ma
tions. Our adversaries would have
been able to seize upon our election
campaign confusion to pursue their
aggreSsions, and the enduring peace
we hope for would certainly be lost.
, But it has not been lost and our
, unity has been saved by this pro-
gram.
Even with the rich benefits of our
bipartisan foreign policy, we have
not seen the gains the American
people had a right to hope for in
these years since the shooting war
stopped. In part, this has been due
to the clumsiness, the weakness and
the wobbling of the present admin
istration. In part, it has been due
to the administrations failure to
consult the Republicans before max
ing sudden and vital policy commit
ments. These have almost invariably
got the country deeper into trouble.
But many OF the obstacles we
have run into were beyond the con-
troll of any American. They are
founded in the aggressive designs of
the ruthless, ambitious leaders of
the Soviet government. 1t has been
the Soviet leaders stubborn refusal
to cooperate with other nations
that has constantly checked our
progress toward the goal OF peace
with justice.
Policy Accomplishments.
In spite Of these disappointments,
our bipartisan policy has made
great accomplishments. The defense
pact among the American nations,
the European Recovery Program,
and the very United Nations organi-
cation itself are shining monuments
to the cooperation of Republicans
and Democrats. In the face of this
record, I find the extravagant
claims which the Democratic plat
form makes for sole authorship of
our sound accomplishments on the
road to peace to be curiously unre-
lated to what r. actually has hap
pened in the world.
That Democratic platform pretends
that the United Nations, the Euro
pean recovery plan, the henis-
pheric defense pact of Rio de
Janeiro. The promotion of Western
European unity and even aid for
China are all accomplishments of
the Democrats. Well, now, I seem
to remember that the names in the
headlines when these laudable steps
were taken read something like this
Senator Vanderberg, Congressman
Eaton, Harold Stassen and John
Foster Dulles. These men are Re
publicans.
Let 1t pass. I am interested only
In what our bipartisan foreign pol
icy has done for America and what
it will do in the future. 1t has
brought inestimable benefit to our
country. For example, the original
Charter of the United Nations was
drawn up at Dumbarton Oaks
chiefly under Democratic auspices