Evening star., 1950-07-30
COP Paper Attacking
Far Eastern Policies
kears Final Drafting
By Jack Bell
Associated Press Stoff Writer

With heavy accents on Korea,
the foreign policy fight in prepa-
ration for the November Congress
sional elections shaped up today.
A Republican white paper"
contending that Administration
Far Eastern policies virtually in
vited the Communist attack on
Korea was reported near the final
drafting stage.
Although work on Il has been
under way for weeks, interested
Republican lawmakers said it will
be the party's official answer to
recent Democratic charges that
the Republican "ISolationists"
gave Russia the false assumption
that the United States wouldn't
aid South Korea against aggres-
sion.
Strong Statement Due.
The Republican National Com
nittee called that a red herring,
but it seemed likely that a pro-
posed statement Republican mem
bers of the Senate and House For
eign Affairs Committees will be
asked to join in issuing will con-
tain much more forceful language.
However, Senator Myers of
Pennsylvania, the assistant Demo-
cratic leader, told a reporter he
doesn't think the Republicans
have any record to boast about
in connection with the Korean
situation.
THE leadership of the Repub-
lican Party has fought every bill
that has been proposed to bolster
the strength of our friends in the
world" he said.
China Policy Questioned.
"They have said we ought to
have intervened in China to keep
it out of the hands of the Com
munists. Considering the diff
culties we have encountered in
Korea, what would have hap
pened in China if we had gone
in there?"
Senator Brewster of Maine,
chairman of the Republican Sem
atorial campaign committee, in
formed newSman he doesn't
think the Democrats escape 're-
sponsibility for the blunders that
have led us into war in Korea"
They are the ones who made
the decisions which indicated to
Russia that the Communists
wouldn't have any opposition if
they chose to take over all of
Korea" he said. THE American
people know the facts and they
are going to act on them"
G. o. P. Checks Records.
The Republicans have been
looking up their own and the
Democrats records since the days
Of the Boxer Rebellion in China.
They apparently intend to stress
the fact that last January Secre-
tary of State Acheson didn't in
clude either Korea or Formosa in
the American defense zone in the
Pacific.
They probably will cite Presi-
dent Truman's statement about
the same time that the Chinese
Nationalist Government on For
mosa would get no American mil
itary aid.
Beyond that, they are expected
to contend that although Con-
.gress voted funds for military and
economic assistance to Korea, al
most none of the money was spent
before the North Korean Com
munists attacked.
House Republicans Hit.
The Democrats already have
charged Republican House mem
bers with responsibility for the
temporary rejection by the House
last January of bill authorizing
$3.50 million in economic aid for
Korea. The House and Senate
later approved the aid measure.
Republicans generally say that,
although President Truman's de-
cision for armed intervention in
Korea was applauded by the coun-
try, the reaction to American mil
itary reverses there is mounting.
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