Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
Text of Stassen Attack on Asian Policy


lcial policies which have resulted
/ in the very high national in
debtedness today of 257 billion
dollars, which is % billion dollars
higher than the debt when the
President took Office five years
ago, and is almost as high as the
war peak.
;, Federal Spending Assailed.
For the good of the family bud
gets in America there is an urgent
need of change in these Federal
, spending and financial policies, OF
a cut in non-defense spending, of
stopping the inf1ationary spiral
I am confident that Republican
majority in the next Senate and
House would take these important
steps for the well-being of every
family in America.
OF course, every time we Re-
publicanS speak of the Importance
of sound money and of less spend
ing in Government, the admins
tration politicians try to brand us
as reactionaries and say we would
ignore the needs of the people
But the plain facts are that the
best programs for true human
welfare and for the aged and the
dependent and the children and
the handicapped are carried on
today under the leading Repub-
lican administrations, such as
those of Gov. Earl Warren in Cali
fornia, Gov. James Duff in PENN
Sylvania, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
in New York and Gov. Luther
Youngdahl in Minnesota.
A sincere humanitarian Gov
eminent can meet the real needs
of the people and at the same
time carry out a sound policy
against imitation to safeguard the
future earnings of the people.
My fellow citizens. as we close
this crucial mid-century congress
sional campaign, it is shocking to
find the President using the power
of his Office and the cash of his
political committee to take 10
o'clock monopoly on all of the
radio and television networks for
an unprecedented attempt to get
more members in the next Con-
gresS who will be political puppets
for his administration.
Truman Speech Hit.
He is making a Pendergast type
Fof low-level ward politics appeal
Ito short-sighted, selfishness when
the American people want and
need in this critical hour an ap-
peal to the heart and the spirit
and the faith which under God
has made America great.
The issues to me appear clear.
He made an outrageous attack
tonight on the 80th Congress. He
shouldn't attack the Goth Con-
gress. He knows as we'll as the
people what the 80th Congress
did. What the President should
have done was apologize to the
80th Congress, just as he apollo
gized to the United States Marines.
If you want to continue the
tragic costly blunders in Asia vote
for the Presidents candidates on
Tuesday.
But if you want new Asiatic
policy which is consistent with a
dynamic world opposition to Com
munism, which is constructive and
foresighted and listens to Gen.
MacArthur's advice before fight
ing begins instead of only after
the bloodshed starts, then regard
less Of your party membership,
vote for the Republican candi-
dates from coast to coast.
If you want to bring all of the
doctors and nurses and hospitals
under the thumb of the Wash
ington politicians then vote for
the Presidents candidates.
But If you want to make prog
ress in a sound health program
for America in cooperation with
the doctors and hospitals without
socializing medicine, then vote for
the Republican candidates on
Tuesday.
If you want to put a Brannan
brand on the back of every farmer
in America. and injure both the
farmer and the consumer, vote
for the Presidents candidates.
Sound Program Pledged.
But if you want sound food
and agricultural program worked
out with the great farm organi-
cations of America, carrying for
ward from prosperity, vote for the
Republican candidates.
If you want a continuation of
waste and delay and five-percent-
ers in armament production, vote
for the Presidents candidates.
But if you want an insistence
on competent management of
larnament production, the elimi-
nation of waste and extravaganza
so that our armed forces have
what they need when they need
it, vote for the Republican candi-
dates.
I have great faith in the Amer
lean people. I have a deep and
abiding faith in the future of
America and of the cause of free
dom. I believe that with fore
sight and a strong, consistent
policy we can yet win a just world
peace. 1t is late, but not too late.
7 believe the people of every
walk of life, in their own silent
decisions expressed in the voting
booth, with only their conscience
and their God as witnesses, will
rise to the challenge of this crit
ical hour. They will respond to
the nobler and finer sentiments
of man. They will demonstrate
again that man was meant to be
free.