Evening star., 1951-04-29

| policy.
| Americans are divided today
into two camps-over the dismis-
sal of Gen. Douglas Macarthur
from his high commands in the
Far East and over the military
policies advocated by him. The
Republicans have espoused the
cause of Macarthur and the Dem
ocrats, that Of President Truman
md of Secretary of State Ache
on.
Bi-partisanship' in American
oreign policy is at its lowest ebb
5ince the close of World War Il.
it's resurrection may be aided or
prevented entirely by the hear
ings which the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and the Sem
ate Armed Services Committee,
! Jointly. are to initiate next Thurs
day with Gen. Macarthur as the
( first witness. The general, in his
address to Congress last week,
urged that the problem of Far
Eastern policy-and of our entire
foreign policy be dealt with in a
non-partisan manner.
| Party Ratio at Stake
| One encouraging symptom is
found in the apparent willingness
of the Democratic leadership in
the Senate not to disturb the par
| ty ratio on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Because OF
the death of the late Senator Van-
denberg of Michigan, Republican,
and the appointment of Senator
Blair Moody. Democrat, in his
place, the numerical strength in
the upper house has changed to
SO Democrats and IS Republicans.
Under the formula used, the DEM
ocrats are now entitled to two
more important committee assign
ments. If they chose to exert this
right in the Foreign Relations
Committee, they could make its
membership 8 Democrats and S
Republicans, instead of Z and 6.
Should the Democrats insist
/ upon placing another member on
the committee, the G. o. P. men,
bers would regard it as evidence
| that the administration, and the
i Democratic leadership in the Sen
/ ate, had decided to cast over
board all idea of seeking Repuh-
lican concurrence in matters oi
/ foreign policy.
i Republican members of the For
, eign Relations Committee are moi
unmindful of the need of united
foreign policy - particularly IL
the Far East. But they take
idim view of the prospects. They
have been discouraged particular
lily by the summary manner o.
Gen. Macarthur dismissal b.
President Truman and by thu
Presidents refusal to let Secre'
tary of State Acheson go.
His reply was: "I have Secre'
| tary of State" The country, tht
Republicans insist, has lost con.
:. fidence in Mr.. Acheson. who i:
: credited with having influenced
!. Mr.. Truman in his Far Easter
5 policy over several years.
! Wiley Backs Treaty
! The late Senator VandenberG
!, has been succeeded as rankins
Republican member of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
/ by another Midwesterner, Senator
Wiley of Wisconsin. Wisconsin al
| one time was regarded as hot
/ bed of isolationism - when tbs
, La Follettes were in the saddle
: 1t is no longer. so-and Senate.
Wiley has shown himself, lihe
$ Senator Vandenberg. fully alive
to the part which the United
: States must play in the world to-
: day.
The wisconsin Senator is as re-
sentful over the treatment ac'
corded Macarthur by the Presi'
: dent as any of his colleagues
/ However. Senator Wiley, in view.
ing the foreign situation, takes s
: down -earth position.
He believes that in the comm;
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