Evening star., 1948-06-22

measure. Republicans helped to Gre
ate the United Nations, and have
done their best to make it work. Re-
publican Congressman voted funds
for foreign relief and recovery be-
cause 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 Republi-
can foreign policy is to elect Re-
publican President of the United
States.
Points to Secretary Seward.
A Republican President will man
the State Department with per-
sonnel who will make our diplomacy
respected in every corner Of the
world. It is an old and tried Re-
publican tradition that American
influence shall be felt wherever
America has a legitimate duty in
the world outside our gates. 1t was
Lincoln's Secretary of State. William
H. Seward, who held off European
Intervention in our Civil War. 1t
was a Republican. Seward, who re-
affirmed the Monroe Doctorine in
Mexico where foreign despots had
seated Maximilian on a paper
throne. 1t was Lincoln's Seward
who saw our great stake in the Pa
cif1c and who purchased Alaska and
sought the annexation of Hawaii.
1t was another Republican Secre-
tary of State, James G. Blaine, who
originated Pan-Americanism and
who created the policy Of reciprocal
trade.
1t was q Republican President
and Secretary of State who made
Hawaii a part Of this Nation and
an outpost of defense in the Pa
ciflc. 1t was Republican Secretary
of State John Hay who opened the
doors to China. 1t was a Republi-
can President and Secretary OF
State who tried to check Japanese
aggression at its outset in 1881. :
These are not the marks Of a
timid foreign policy. They are the
wise tradition of a Nation growing
in worldwide influence.
Denies Party Is Timid.
Seward, Blaine, Hay, Root, Hughes
and Kellogg-these were the max
ers of real American world policy
Merely to recall them is to blast the
New Deal falsehood that the Re-
publican Party is timid OF 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 proposes to
restore the respect and confidence
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
but we shall do nothing to provoke
war. Rather, we shall pursue every
avenue to peace. We make in this
convention real covenant for peace
With our best will and our best
skill we must meet the challenge OF
Communism. Communism Is world
wide infection of false doctrine. II
grows upon darkness and poverty
and hunger. Our defense at home
and abroad Is not in arms alone
but in every means that builds fol-
freedom and human welfare. or that
propagates the truth concerning &c
nomic well-being and personal free
dom under our Republican form OF
Government.
Promises Sound America.
Our best answer to Communism
will be a sound America, in which
all the people shall enjoy the pros
perity produced by our free economy
and which shall offer effective CO.
operation to free men throughout the
world. A republican President vii.
provide that answer. He will pro-
vide it in the honest and efficient
administration of our domestic af-
fairs and in the management OF oul
foreign relations.
The Congress has voted European
Recovery Program because 1t be-
lieves that the free nations OF the
world can grow IN strength anc