Evening star., 1950-03-02
The Political Mill
Foreign Policy Under Fire
By Two Top Democrats
Tydines, Mcmahon Moves
Admirable, but Amozing
The Political Mill
Bv Gould Lincoln

Admirable, but Amazing
By Gould Lincoln
The foreign policy of the United States
by which is meant the policy of this
country toward Soviet Russia and its
campaign to communize the worlds
now under drumfire attack, not by Re-
publicans but by two important Demo-
cratic figures in the Senate, the chair
man of the Armed Services Committee,
Senator Tydings of Maryland, and the
chairman of the Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy, Senator Mcmahon Of
Connecticut. In some respects it's an
amazing performance.
President Truman and his Secretary
of State Dean Acheson, have taken a
firm position with regard to Soviet Rus
sia. In effect, the Administration has
said it has no intention of seeking new
peace" discussions with the Kremlin
and that it plans to carry through
with program of strengthening. mill
tarily and economically, both the United
States and the Western democracies. The
President has ordered the construction
of the hydrogen bomb and the stock
piling of atomic bombs.
MOtlVcS seen
Actuated by admirable motives. Sem
ator Tydings and Senator Mcmahon in
sist the time has arrived to take every
possible step to avoid third and COM
pletely devastating world war-includ-
ing new conversations with Russia.
Senator McMahon's latest proposals in
clude the use of the Atlantic Council.
created by the North Atlantic Security
Treaty. to formulate new plans for deal
ing with the H-bomb and A-bomb. Then,
backed by the influence of free-world
opinion, to approach the Kremlin again,
seeking a meeting of the General AS
Sembly of the United Nations in Moscow,
which presumably will ventilate the prob
lens now at the root of the cold war"
and bring about the outlawing of the H
bomb and A-bomb, and curtailment Of
armament all along the line.
The ends these Democratic Senators
seek are exactly the needs desired by
President Truman and Secretary Ache
son. They are the ends desired through
out the Western world. The Administra-
ton has had it's unhappy experiences
with the Kremlin in San Francisco,
where the United Nations Charter was
written, in London, in New York, in
Paris, in Berlin and in Moscow itself.
It does not believe that it can trust the
Kremlin. And it certainly does not be.
lieve that anything can be gained by
going now, hat in hand, and asking for
conferences or Assembly meetings. The
Administration, apparently, does not in
tend to be swept off its feet by wave.
almost hysterical, sweeping across the
country and other areas, including Britt
ain, for some new appeal to Russia. It's
attitude is that the Soviet Union should
be at least as active as the United States
in seeking discussions to end the cold
war. Not peep has been heard out
of the Kremlin, asking through govern
ment channels for such discussions. e..
Divisions on Problem. ;
The Democratic leadership in the
Senate is becoming exercised over the
present attempts of Democratic Senators
which tend to show serious division
between the Chief Executive and his
party in Congress on this most serious
problem. 1t feels that the hands of the
President will be weakened by such
tactics There is in the immediate ofdng
a demand that there be conference
right here, with the holders of these
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reaching come kind Of agreement.
Except for Senator Lodge Of Massa-
chusetts, a Republican member of the
Foreign Relations Committee, the Repub-
licans in the Senate have left these dis
cussions to their Democratic colleagues
Mr.. Lodge. instead of terrorizing the
American people, said in the Senate
that this country "can out-produce any
other nation in the manufacture of
these new weapons - that we should be
able to keep our nerve and our sense Of
proportion that the first step
is for us to get strong enough so that
the SovietS will ask us for disarma-
ment conference. Then and only then
will there be a real prospect of ac-
complishing results"
The truth is that since 1945 the United
States has been asking the Soviet gov
ernment for peaceful settlement of post
war problems. only to be rebuffed in
every instance, and the control of atomic
weapons was one Of them.