Evening star., 1950-02-07


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To win lasting peace, to build q
country in which every citizen may
make the most of his skill, initiative
and enterprise, and to hold aloft
the inspiring torch of American
freedom, opportunity and justice
assuring better and happier life
for all our people, we dedicate oul
efforts and issue this Statement OF
Principles and Objectives supple
menting the Republican Platform
of 1948
We. shall not passively defend the
principles stated here but shall
fight for them with all the vigor
with which our forefathers fought
to establish what we now seek to
advance and perpetuate-human
liberty and individual dignity.
We pledge that in all we will ad-
vocate and in all that we will per-
form, the first test shall be: Does
this conduct enlarge and strengthen
or does it undermine and lessen
human liberty and individual dig
nifty?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The American people face the
hard fact that though they won the
war nearly five years ago they have
not yet won the peace. We offer
them leadership in new efforts to
achieve this vital end
We favor a foreign policy in
which all Americans, regardless OF
party. will join to assure peace with
Justice in a free world while main
tanning the independence and
rights of the American pepole.
We insist upon restoration of our
foreign agreements to their proper
place inside the Constitution and
We insist that the United States
shall not be bound to any course of
action unless the spirit and letter
of our Constitutional procedure are
followed.
We oppose secret commitments,
and we denounce the refusal of the
Administration to furnish accurate
and adequate information to the
Congress.
Under our indispensable two-party
system, We shall be vigilant in
critical exploration of Administra-
ton foreign policy. We favor con-
sultation between the Executive and
members of both major parties in
the Legislative Branch of Govern
ment in the initiation and develop
ment of united American foreign
policy; and we deplore >the tragic
consequences of the Administra-
tion's failure to pursue these OBJ
jectives in many fields, particularly
in the secret agreements of Yalta,
subsequently confirmed at Potsdam,
which have created new injustices
and new dangers throughout the
world.
We favor full support of the
United Nations and the improve
ment of its Charter so that it may
be an effective international organ
ization of independent states pre-
pared to mobilize public opinion
and the armed forces of the world
against aggression. We favor full
support of the inter American sys-
tenn as an integral part of the in
ternational organization, and of oul
treaty obligations in the North At
lantic Community.
We advocate q strong policy
against the spread of Communism
or Fascism at home and abroad
and we insist that Americas efforts
toward this end be directed BY
those who have no sympathy either
with Communism or Fascism.
We support aid to those state:
resisting Communism but such aic
should be given only If it is es-
sential to our national security, il
| it is within the total limits which
the American economy can afford
if it will be effective, if it is beyond
the ability of the aided nation tc
supply or itself, and if there is q