Evening star., 1948-09-28
Truman 10 Turn
To Red Problem
In Speech Today
Oklahoma City Talk
Follows Conference
With BedeII Smith
AMBASSADOR SMITH confers
with President on Russian situa-
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By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoff Correspondenf

ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU-
MANS SPECIAL TRAIN, Sept.
28.-President Truman headed
today for Oklahoma City, where
he is expected to make his first
full l-fedged talk on the Commu-
mist problem.
The address, to be made at 5 pm
against a background of a tense
European situation, follows his long
conference last night with Walter
Bedell Smith, Ambassador to Soviet
Russia.
Mr.. Truman, who has repeatedly
emphasized his intention of keeping
foreign affairs out of the presidential
campaign because he said politics
should end at the waters edge"
injected that angle last night in a
speech at Bonham, Tex, the home
town of House Minority Leader
Reyburn.
The speech was a double -barreled
attack on the nature of the unity
plea of his Republican opponent,
Gov. Dewey, and a challenge to the
Republicans to join in promoting a
bipartisan foreign policy that will
give the world more than a "shaky
peace"
Needs Strong Foundation.
The President told a crowd in
the high school stadium that the
Republicans had refused to 60 along
with the Democrats to cement in
ternational trade relations, and de-
clared that the Bipartisan foreign
policy" for which he claimed credit
for the administration, has added
greatly to the strength of our ef-
forts for peace"
But the peace can be no more
secure than the foundation upon
which it rests" he added. And if
the Republican Party will not join
us in establishing a firm basis for
world trade, the foundation of
peace will be very shaky, indeed"
Representative Rayburn kept for
eign policy to the forefront when he
introduced the President, but he
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His talk, following Gen. Smiths
dramatic conference with Mr.. Tru-
man, was a plea to the people not to
change Presidents now. He told his
hometown audience that to defeat
Mr.. Truman would court unrest
abroad.
Mentions Trade Program.
what would our enemies through
out the world think If we replaced
our President now?" he asked.
Would they think we are going
back on our policy of world peace,
of world concord, of world order?
I fear they might"
In particularizing on the trade
program which he says the Repub-
licans have frustrated, the President
mentioned primarily the reciprocal
trade agreements, which he said had
been extended for one year as poll
tical gesture by the Republicans who
propose ito kill the program entire
ly" next year.
The Republican Senate, he con-
tinued, refused to ratify the interna-
tional wheat agreement, to give
farmers a guaranteed market for
five years.
Talks Of Cotton Situation.
In country where cotton rules,
the President called on his audience
also TO "look at what they're saying
about cotton. The Republican press
has been having field day warning
people that the Government may
have to make a lot of cotton loans
this year at around 80 cents a pound.
They talk as if that is bad thing
to do. They use it as an argument
against the whole price support
program. They don't tell how cot
ton loans rescued the farmer from
the Republican mess of 1882 or how
useful the Government stocks of
cotton were during World War H."
Pointing to the Democratic farm
policy as designed to help the little
fellow" the President said that the
real principle" of the COP is
"the trickle-down principle. Take
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