Evening star., 1948-04-27
U.S.. May lin Military
Alliance Against Reds,
Vandenberg Warns
BY the kssocloted Pres.

lIeSu nlllG 10 RUSSIA JOQdy tndC
the United States may join West
ern Europe In a military alliance
against Communist aggression.
The chief Republican exponent of
this country's bipartisan foreign
policy at the same time served this
warning on Americans:
we are suicidal fools II we do
not root out and destroy any trea-
son at home which may dream of
bringing world revolution to the
United States"
Above all, Senator Vanderberg
said, Prime Minister Stain should
understand that I'VE shall not sur
render to Communist conspiracies
In the United States"
Speaks at Dinner.
Senator Vandenberg, chairman Of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, made his announcements
In a surprise speech last night at
a dinner given by Michigan cham
bers Of commerce and trade asso-
Citations for the States congress
sional delegation.
He refused afterward to expand
on his remarks. But Senator VAN
denberg appeared to be adding his
own support to mounting indica-
tons that America will throw its
military as well as its economic
weight against Communist expan-
sion in Europe.
Rapping what he called Russia's
uncompromising refusal to let the
United Nations perfect its own
peace machinery, the Senator de-
Clared:
I'VE have not yet even scratched
the surface of the possibilities of its
che U. N.'s) regional arrangements,
as exemplified in the Rio treaty.
There can be vital progress in this
procedure-and I venture to predict
there will"
Pact Binds Hemisphere Nations.
The Rio treaty drafted last fall
provides that all other Western
Hemisphere nations will come to
the military aid of any one of them
attacked by country outside this
hemisphere. Senator Vandenberg
helped write the treaty and led
the fight for its ratification by
the Senate.
There has been speculation that
an American military alliance with
the Western European union now
being organized might take the form
of a regional defense system under
the U. N. The union is being Gre
ated as an adjunct of the multi
billion dollar recovery program
which Senator pandenberg helped
steer through Congress this spring.
While voicing hope that peace
can be attained. the Senator as
serted:
Meanwhile, we are realists. We
do not propose to be isolated in a
world that has been communized by
conquest. We do not shut our eyes
to the cold, hard fact that there
are those in the world who respect
nothing else but force.
I'VE shall adequately prepare our
selves for any such argument If
there still be those who mistakenly
think Of us as pacificists- -at-any-
price"
AS has President Truman, Sen
ator Vandenberg said peace must
include both justice and honor.
1T must be peace which stabilizes
human rights and fundamental
freedoms or we have lost every OBJ
jective for which we fought two
world wars, and for which-though
God forbid!-we could be forced to
face third, though never, never,
through our voluntary choice" he
declared.
Senator Vandenberg, who has
been mentioned as a possible COM
promise candidate for the COP
presidential nomination, said peace
must not take the form of Munich
appeasement. Yalta compromise or
Henry A. Wallace peace.
1T cannot be a Wallace peace"
the Senator insisted, because COM
muniStic fraternity sooner or later
produces but one kind of unity
the kind that Jonah enjoyed when
he was swallowed by the whale"
Summing up, Senator Vandenberg
said that if he we're talking with
Stain he would tell him:
I'VE cannot be driven, coerced or
presSured into positions which we
decline voluntarily to assume; that
we will not bargain in human
rights and fundamental liberties
anywhere on earth: and underlying
everything, that we shall not sur
render to Communist conspiracies
in the United States"
Ferguson Suggests Test Case.
Senator Vandenberg spoke after
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan had suggested that a test
case be brought against the Com
munist Party in this country to
determine its legality. A victory
for the Government, Senator Fer
guson said, would destroy many
OF the Communist-front organiza-
tiOnS which plague u.s."
On the assumption that the Com
munists are working for the violent
overthrow of the Government, Sem
ator Ferguson said 1t appears that a
1910 law prohibits communism in
America.
The l940s Federal law he cited
makes 1t unlawful for any one know
1ngly to advocate or abet the forcible
overthrow Of the Government or to
be a member of or help to organize