Evening star., 1950-10-22
COP. Floods Mails
With Postcard Attack
On Truman Policies
By the Associated Press

double-size postcards bearing Il
questions. most of them on Ko.
rean policy. which Representa-
tive Judd, Republican, of Mime.
sota) recently read to the HOUSE
after saying he couldn't get TIE
Administration to answer 5ham.
Some of the questions:
why did (Secretary of State
Acheson invite the Communist.
to take over Korea, Formosa ano
China? Why did President Tt.
man insist that Chang Kai.
shek take Communists into the
Chinese Government? What
went with the sos billion spent
on National defense since Worlc
War II?
Mailed Postage Free.
Democratic Senator Anderson
OF New Mexico. executive VICE
chairman of his party's nationa
committee, said he understood al
least 8 million of the postcard.
were being mailed postage-free
under the franklng privilege o1
Republican congressman.
Senator Anderson accused tics
Republicans of spending public
funds to send out ''phoney enc
fraudulent campaign material
He added in a statement:
These questions are based upon
misinformation, misunderstanding
and downright Misrepresentation
Each OF them has been answered
time after time and the false as
sumptionS on which they are based
have been thoroughly exposed"
Senator Anderson said the Tru-
man Administration has taken
firm measures to check Communist
aggression while "at almost every
step these measures have been op-
posed by isolationist Republican
leaders"
Republican sources said the
number of postcards being mailed
was not 8 million but about 3
million.
Democrats Reply.
The Democratic National Com
mittee made public a series of
answers by Representative Mans
field, Democrat. of Montana to
Judd's questions. The answers in
cluded:
1.-Acheson never invited the
Communists to take over any
territory. He laid down a Pacific
line that the United States would
defend by itself and announced
that aggression elsewhere in the
Far East would be resisted by the
United Nations.
2.-President Truman didnt t
insist upon Chiang's government
taking in Communists. He called
for a strong, united and demo-
cratic China" and for an end to
the Chinese civil war.
3.-Almost half of this country's
postwar defense spending went to
liquidate the cost of World War
II. The rest went for essential
purposes such as feeding and
the armed forces and
operating the Berlin airlift.
Albert B. Hermann, executive
director Of the COP National Com |
said Senator Anderson's
'hysterical protests demonstrate
the alarm of the Democrats over
the issues of this campaign"
If we had the money, we would
certainly see to it that each voting
American had a copy of these "a
questions to study before he goes
to the polls" Mr.. Hermann said
in a statement, adding:
The people will decide Novem-
Der whether any adequate an
sWers have been made to these vi
tai questions"
Red Issue Dominates.
Communism and related issues
continued to dominate the cam
paign as both parties stepped up
the volume of their effort to
sway voters November 7.
In Kansas City. Mrs. India Ed
wards, vice-chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee, said
Democratic administrations for
the last IT years have pulled
the rug from under Communist
propaganda by restoring Ameri-
can prosperity and by answering
the needs of the people"
In Des Moines, Iowa, Robert K
Goodwin, Republican State chair
man, asked the Senate Election
Practices Committee for an i'm
mediate investigation of alleged
political activity by Federal Pro-
duction and Marketing Admin
istration employees in Iowa.
The telegraphic request was
sent to Senator Gillette, Demo-
crat. OF Iowa. chairman of a SEN
ate subcommittee which investi-
gates complaints of election irreg-
ularities, and others.
Senator Gillette was at his
home in Cherokee but could not
be reached Immediately for COM
ment. He had planned to leave
today for Washington as the re-
suit of receipt of a recent COM
plalnt from New York.
Mr., Goodwin complained that
paid PIMA workers in Iowa care
active) in behalf of the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Senate.
This constitutes an open and
brazen violation of the Hatch Act
They are obeying the commands
from their chief in Washington. u
The telegram went also to Sen
ator Schoeppel, Republican. of
Kansas, Minority Party member
OF the committee, Secretary OF
Agriculture Brannan and Attor-
ney General McGrath.