Evening star., 1950-12-10

Inc man, OF course, is Senate
gan. Leader of Republican thoug
after the close of the last World
War, chairman Of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee during the 80th
Congress, he played a tremendous
ly important part in the BIZ
partisan foreign policy and its
creation. 1t was under his con-
slant prodding and advice that the
policy toward Communist Russia
stiffened, and the country became
more understanding of the i'm
placable drive of the Soviet gov
ernment to communize the world
Because Of serious illness the
Michigan Senator has been forced
to be absent from all deliberations
on foreign affairs since the Com
munist attack on South Korea
last June Is. Reports from Crane
Rapids, his home, indicate thai
Senator Vandenberg may be ablt
to return to Washington when tn,
new Congress convenes in Janu
airy. His colleagues in the Senat,
devoutly hope he will return.
Lack of Planning Shown
AS things stand today. the Re
publican Party-in Congress O
out-has no recognized spokesman
on foreign affairs-in the sens,
that Senator Vandenberg wa
such spokesman. The result i.
plethora of declarations by in.
dividuals. most of them severely
critical and few of them construc.
tive in their content.
Yet the G. o. P. won important
elections and important gains ir
Congress in November. 1t wor
them largely on the internationa,
issue and it's ramifications, from
the war in Korea to alleged soft
ness of the Truman administra-
ton toward Communists and fell
low travellers in this country. II
seems incredible, therefore, that
the G. o. p. should permit the
country to remain in the dark or
it's attitude, or allow foreign ma
tions to continue uninformed, too
The recent proposal of Senator
Ives of New York that the Repub.
licans of the Senate adopt a reso-
luton calling for the removal o1
Secretary OF State Acheson, ano
transmit the request to Presi.
dent Truman is at once concrete
and illustrative of the lack oI
planning on the part of Repub-
licans so far as foreign affairs
are concerned. It is concrete ir
that it attempts to put into eff.
fective form many of the indi-
vidual demands made for ousting
of the Secretary of State. It il
illustrative of the fact that the
G. o. P. has no recognized leader
on foreign policy in Congress
otherwise the proposal would have
been taken up with him by Sen
ator Ives before the New York
Senator shot it into the open.
The Ives proposal is also H.
Illustrative of a very important
factor in the situation today-the
unwillingness of the Republicans
to follow a bipartisan foreign
policy-in the Far East or any.
where else-as long as Mr.. Ache.
son remains Secretary of State. Mr.
Ives says frankly he made his
proposal to have the Opposition
party" the Republican Party, take
a position on what he considers
an issue of prime Importance
if there is to be unity on foreign
policy. He prefers party action
on concrete proposal rather thar
scattering fire and sniping by in
dividual Republicans.
Conference Scheduled
The upshot has been the ap-
pointment of a subcommittee o1
the Republican Policy Committee
of the Senate to redraft the Ives
resolution for the purpose of lay
ing it before the Republican con-
ference of the Senate-which in.
cludes all Republican Senators, al
a meeting early next week. prob
ably Tuesday. The Policy Com
mittee was unwilling to commit
itself one way or the other or
the Ives resolution. Senator
Taft of Ohio, chairman of the
Policy Committee, in announcing
the plans for consideration o1
the Ives proposal, said that the
whole question of foreign policy
would be considered by the Re-
publican conference when il
meets, as well as the Ives pro-
posal for the removal of Acheson
The subcommittee which is tt
whip the resolution on Achesor
into final form is composed o1
Senators Ives, Millikin of Colo
RADIO, Wherry of Nebraska ano