Evening star., 1950-08-27
Lodge Appears Heir-Apporent
To Vondenberq's Policy Post
Choice Of Senator
As U. N. Delegate
Seen as Evidence
By the Associated Pres,

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apparent to Senator Arthur H.
vandenberg as Republican foreign
affairs leader.
With Senator Vandenberg un-
able to carry out his duties be-
cause of illness, Senator Lodge
has begun to step into role for
which the Michigan Senator OBJ
viously has been grooming his
younger colleague for some time.
President Truman's appoint
ment Of Senator Lodge as an
American delegate to the United
Nations General Assembly has
carried the Massachusetts, Sena-
tor further In Senator Vanden-
berg's footsteps.
In making the appointment, the
President set aside the fact that
Senator Lodge refused to go along
with the Democratic majority of
. Senate Foreign Relations sub
committee which condemned the
Communist in Government
charges made by Senator Nc
Carthy. Republican, of Wisconsin.
Called Inquiry Superficial"
Senator Lodge asserted in a
separate report that the COM
mittee's investigation was super
ficial and inconclusive." although
he agreed that some of Senator
MeCarthy's charges had not been
proved.
It was Senator Lodge. Massa-
chuSetts baby" member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee on the minority side, who
talked three Republican colleagues
into issuing q recent statement in
which the COP members accused
the Democratic administration of
virtually invited the Communist
attack on South Korea by its
hands-off policy in that area.
Significantly, Senator Vanden-
berg's office announced that the
Michigan Senator agreed to the
general principles laid down in
the document.
Democrats have contended that
the Republican attack. signed also
by Senators Wiley of Wisconsin,
Smith Of New Jersey and Hicken-
looper of Iowa, is little more than
q frontal assault on the bipartisan
foreign policy.
Senator Lodge and his colleagues
have denied that. They say that
the minority's right to criticize
can't be denied. that they are
willing to go along on bipartisan
ship where it is offered in good
faith.
Urged More Arms Funds.
Regardless of the statement,
Senator Lodge is likely to be in
the forefront of those supporting
bipartisan moves to strengthen
the American hand in world
affairs.
He was suggesting a speed-up
In the rearming of Western Europe
before President Truman ever
asked for 50 billion more for that
purpose. He was calling the Ko-
rean adventure a major war last
month when a lot of people still
thought couple Of American di-
visions could handle the situation.
In his climb to any role of
leadership, Senator Lodge will be
faced with a seniority hurdle hard
TO surmount. He is fifth in line
among Republicans on the for
eign relations group. AS such he
sometimes is expected to be seen
but not heard.
This seniority road block =
which leaves Senator Lodge off
the list when the President calls
Republicans in for consultation
arose from the fact that Senator
Lodge resigned from the Senate
In 1914 to go into the Army and
got back the hard way in 1946
by defeating the late Senator
Walsh. Democrat, who then
headed the Naval Affairs Com
mittee.
Active in I948 Convention.
Senator Lodge first came to the
Senate in 1886. before Senator
Taft Of Ohio. an acknowledged
Republican leader. arrived on the
scene.
But for a young fellow-he's
% but doesn't look it-Senator
Lodge has done all right for him
self.
With Senator Vandenberg's aid,
he headed the resolutions COM
mittee at the 194S Republican
convention. This committee
wrote the presidential platform.
Since then he has been pushing
some OF his elder colleagues to
revamp the Republican party into
what he thinks will be q more
progressive outfit. He has said,
among other things, that to win
elections the Republicans must
"win the confidence of labor"
Senator Lodges bid for formal
leadership didn't get far when,
as the candidate Of q group of
Insurgents. he tried to unseat
Senator Taft as chairman of the
Senate Republican policy COM
mittee last year. The count was