Evening star., 1950-04-09
President Seen Forcing
Foreign Policy Fight
Republican Aid Held Blocked
BY Mr.. Trumon's Toctics
By Fronk R. Kent

The foreign policy Of this country
should have no place In the congress
sional campaign this year. Yet, there
seems slight doubt now that It win b
the chief issue. Mr.. Truman himself
has made that plain. With q record Of
almost complete failure for his domestic
program in this Democratic Congress. hs
proposes, II he can. to convict the Re.
publican party Of sabotaging bipartisan.
ship and aiding the Soviets by out.
rageous assaults upon the State Depart
ment.
If the President follows his present
intention of making q personal political
tour Of the country, speaking along these
lines in his effort TO keep his party in
control. it means an exceedingly bitter.
nsme-calling campaign Of charges and
countercharges. This would not be
good at any time. but In q crisis such
as confronts us 1t hardly could be worse.
Whether they started 1t or not, 1t Is
too much to expect the Republicans to
take lying down the sort Of campaign
Mr.. Truman seems determined TO ware.
To the allegation that they have wrecked
the bipartisan foreign policy and to one
that the State Department has been
cleansed of Communists and the Demo-
cratic Party has not profited by Com
munist support and Affiliations. the
Republicans have concrete and rather
convincing answers. Concerning the
bipartisan foreign policy, they assert that
since his 1913 nomination Mr.. Truman
has proven himself one of the most
partisan Presidents we ever had; that
there never has been bipartisan foreign
policy, as the Republicans-including
Senator Vandenberg-were never kept
fully informed or consulted before pol
icy was determined.
They further aSsert-and with consid-
cradle truth-that Mr.. Truman in the
last two years, instead Of making 1t easy
for Republicans to cooperate, has kicked
them In the teeth every chance he had:
blamed them for lot Of things they
didn't do: ignored such facts as that the
Taft-Hartley bill could not have become
law without Democratic votes; called
them names and otherwise showed him.
self politician without regard for the
facts. Until recently he has had no good
word to say of any Republicans-except
Senator Vandenberg-and his gestures.
such as the appointment Of ex-senator
Cooper of Kentucky and John Foster
Dulles. are meaningless and forced.
AS to the Democratic Communist
afiiliation and support, 1t Is pointed out
that twice-in 1896 and in 1040-the
Communist Party supported the Demo-
cratic presidential ticket; that the oficial
b. Communist propaganda time and again
publicly urged support Of the New Deal
and Fair Deal on the ground that their
trend is toward our goal" which Is
economic chaos and the breakdown Of
the American system. Further. It Is
asserted, the Communist dominated
American Labor Party. which polls up
ward Of 100000 votes. is essential to
Democratic victory in New York: that
concededly some of the largest unions of
the C1O. consistently Democratic from
its birth, are controlled by Communists.
And. finally. that the undisputed evil
dence shows the confessed and convicted
Communist agents in the State Depart
ment were brought in under Democratic
administration.
All this does not make the Democratic
Party Communist-co nor does 1t
make any Democratic leader Com
munist inclined. There Is. however.
plenty Of proof to show that 50 far rs
the Communists are concerned they
vastly prefer the Democratic Party to
the Republican Party; that they favor
Democratic rather than Republican
policies; that more than once they have
made possible the election Of Democratic
candidates: that the men through whom
the Communists have worked In WASH
ington have been New Deal Democrats.
the most conspicuous Of whom II Alger
Hiss. All of this and more Is bound to
be brought out II Mr.. Truman persists
in making foreign policy the issue and
accusing the Republicans Of aiding
Russia for the low purpose Of catching
votes. Senator Mccarthy and his wild
charges against Mr.. baltimore and
Others have little to do with it. Ultimately
they will be forgotten. but the facts will
not-and the Republicans have lot OF
facts No one with the interest Of the
country at heart wants to see this kind
of campaign. Perhaps the Republicans
will 60 ahead anyhow. II they do.
despite Mr.. Truman's knowledge Of
politics, restraint and dignity rather
than name-calling would seem the ef1ec-
tive way Of meeting them.
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