Evening star., 1950-04-18
The Political MiH
Firm Bi-Purtisun Policy
Seen as imperative Need
Congress Warned on Using
Issue os Political Football
The Political MiH
By Gould Lincoln

Gov Thomas E. Dewey OF New York.
featuring at Princeton last week. said;
The greatest need of our foreign policy
Is immediate and sincere restoration 70
a genuine bipartisan basis II this
is to be achieved. 1t requires radical
improvement in the attitude OF both
the Democratic national administration
and sections OF the Republican Party.
Politics should stop at the waters edge.
and If It does not do so soon. doubt
II We will long own the waters edge"
In new book. War or Peace" pub
lished by the Macmillan Co.. John Foster
Dulles, Republican international affairs
expert who was recently appointed
conSultant to Secretary Of State Acheson.
also stresses bi-partisanship in foreign
policy on a sound basis as the Nations
first need for winning the cold war.
Senator Lucas Of Illinois. Democratic
leader o; the Senate. speaking in Car
bondale, H. at a Democratic rally last
Saturday. said: Leaders of any political
party who attempt TO make partisan
issue of our foreign policy are gambling
with the lives of their fellow Americana
Words Are ENCOURAGING.
These are encouraging words-at Q
time when this country Is engaged In A
gigantic effort to preserve world peace
and to prevent Communist Russia from
dominating the entire surface Of the
earth. President Truman has been NOV
ing recently to restore the bipartisan.
ship IN our foreign policy which existed
during the war and up until six months
ago. appointing not only Mr.. Dulles. but
also former Senator Cooper Of Ken
lucky, another Republican. He has
looked with favor on the proposal OF
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan for an
''impartisan" review Of the future OF the
Marshall Plan program
Two obstacles to sound and thorough
going bipartisan foreign policy are IN
the way today. The first is unwillingness
of the administration to accept any
criticism that comes from Republican
sources, regarding foreign policy and
officials to whom 1t has been entrusted.
The second Is a comparatively small
group in the Republican Party which
demands drastic curtailment OF the
Marshall foreign aid plan and new
isolationism.
Republican criticism has been re-
stricted largely to the Administration
policy in China. which has been mop.
1t has been a flop because it has not
halted the onrush Of Russian COM
munism in that great country. On many
occasions. too, the Chinese Communists
virtually have slapped us in the face and
we have done nothing about 1t. Nor
were the Republicans invited to help
make the China policy-as they were In
the making Of the policy for Western
Europe.
Need Called Imperative.
Governor Dewey. expressing hope
that all is not lost in the Far East, said !:
I'VE can take hope from the fact that BIZ
partisan consultation on these problems
will soon start. The safety Of America
cries out for constructive policy and
creative action in the Far East" He said
it was imperative that I'VE stop regarding
,he continuous Red successes in Asia with
the calm of Buddha contemplating his
navel"-and do something.
The Administrations attitude Is to
place the whole blame for Communist
success in China on the Nationalist gov
ernment. headed by Chang Kai-shek.
But what could be expected when at
Yalta. in 1945, Chinese rights and prop
erty were bargained away to Russia. with
the full assent Of the heads of the Ameri.
can and British governments, and when.
as Governor Dewey pointed out. "Mr.
Truman announced he was sending Sec
retary Marshall to China under an i'm
possible directive to compel the Chinese
government to accept merger with the
Communist leaders or face the loss OF
American aid?"
A strong bipartisan policy. both In
the Orient and in Europe, is an impers-
tive need-a continuing policy, which
should not become a political football in
the approaching Congressional cam
paign. Mr.. Dulles in his new book goes
so far as to propose that both Republican
and Democratic candidates who refuse
cooperation in the foreign policy Of this
country should be turned down at the
polls.