Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-13
h entuckion AssuiIs Record
of Republican Congress


themselves by referring to the recore
of Republican votes in both house.
of the Congress on all these meas
ures, they will find a revealing
consistency in opposition to ever,
measure calculated to prepare oul
country for the blow and to softer
it's impact if it should be inflicted
1t has been three years since tht
end of hostilities. In these cir.
cumstances, we have been COM
PEELED to assume the leadership ano
the greater responsibility for tbs
preservation of peace, the occupa-
ton of conquered territory, and the
Inauguration of the processes by
which a peaceful world might be
restored to mankind.
Unfortunately, these three years
have not brought peace. We nave
neither peace nor war. The world
situation has reached posture
where intensity of feeling and spon-
taneity of conduct might easily pre-
cipitate armed conflict.
Our Government, through the
President and the Secretary OF
State and all other responsible
agencies. including majority OF
the Congress, have sought to adjust
the differences and adopt foreign
policy that would preserve our own
integrity, guarantee our own Sc
curity, and ultimately bring peace
to a distraught world.
In this effort, eminent and able
and patriotic Republicans have
shared the responsibility and have
aided us in keeping our foreign
policy out of the mire OF partisan
politics and upon solid basis OF
Justice and equity in world security
Points to Marshall Plan.
It was through our initiative that
the greatest international effort at
economic, moral, and political sta
bilization in the whole history OF
mankind was undertaken. 1t was
first called the Marshall Plan, then
the European Recovery Plan, and
now the Economic Cooperation Ad-
ministration, enacted by the Con-
gress of the United States at the
urgent request of the President and
Secretary of State and the American
people. And it is strange coinci-
dence that at the recent Republican
convention no mention was made OF
the Marshall Plan, as such, by
any one who pretended to speak for
the party then in solemn conclave.
In this effort, however, eminent
and able Republicans like Senator
Vandenberg, chairman of the Sem
ate Committee on Foreign Relations:
Congressman Eaton, chairman of a
similar committe in the House OF
Representatives, and many other
members of both houses of Congress,
and millions of others, regardless OF
politics, throughout the Nation have
set in motion the power and the
agency through which the devas-
tated nations of the world may bring
about their own recovery, and move
forward then under their own steam
in an endeavor to nring about hap
piness, prosperity and stability in
every field of human effort within
their respective boundaries.
l rejoice, and we all rejoice, In
the great contribution made to this
universal purpose by these men who
subordinated their partisanship to
the welfare Of their country and OF
the world.
Warns of New Danger.
The American people must decide
whether they wish to take the
chance and assume the responsibility
of denying our influence and power
and resources, made available not
only to- vim the war, but also to win
the peace, in holding back and driv-
ing back the forces Of new totali-
tarianism, which may be more ruth
less and sinister than that which
we defeated on the battlefields OF
the world in 1945.
The Republican platform I'M
doubtedly attempts to repudiate the
efforts of this wrecking crew In
one of the branches of Congress,
but if they are successful, will the
new administration repudiate their
efforts in the coming sessions of the
Congress and during the four-year
period covered by the law which
Congress overwhelmingly adopted?
We rejoice to believe that in this
great venture we are actuated by
no selfish motive, except that which
consumes the breast of every lib
erty-loving human being to live in
peace, to advance in moral stature,
intellectual breadth, economic free
dom and political equality through
out the nations of the world.
Surely the great Democratic Party,
assembled here in the midst of a
great crisis that confronts mankind,
assembled here at the end of a
decade and a half Of unparalleled
achievement in the moral, economic
and social life of our country, in
the midst of world upheaval un-
precedented in the annals of his
tory, assembled here in the shadow
of the historical hall where Jeffer-
son wrote these things, surely, in
these conditions, neither the great
Democratic Party nor the American
people can forswear their obligation
to march forward on the highway
of human advancement, both here