Evening star., 1951-11-15
7oft's Book on Foreign Policy
Touches Off McMohon Blast

Senator Taft. Republican. Of
Ohio came out with a book today,
blasting Truman administration
foreign policy as a threat to ma
tional freedom.
The book Immediately ran into
a counter-attack by Senator Nc
Mahon. Democrat, of Connecti-
cut. who denounced 1t as display
ing blindness, ignorance and polit-
ical expediency.
The Ohio Senator predicted, In
"a Foreign Policy for Americans, :"
that the United States may be
asked to send more divisions to
Europe next year to supplement
the six already committed to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
ton.
Senator Mcmahon, a member
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, asserted that the book
is full Of "fallacies. inconsistencies.
misstatements Of foreign policy
since the war and q suggested
seven-point program for the fu-
ture are biased upon a complete
misunderstanding of the world
problems of 1851"
Senator Taft, an announced
candidate for the 1852 Republican
presidential nomination, bitterly
criticized President Truman. the
late President Roosevelt. Secre-
tary of State Acheson, and others
for foreign policies which, he said,
could wreck the greatest adven-
ture in freedom the human race
has ever known" He warned that
the President will become a COM
plete dictator in foreign policy, II
the trend continues.
Tribute to Eisenhower.
He accused Presidents Truman
and Roosevelt Of having put all
kinds of political and policy con-
siderations ahead of their interest
in liberty and peace" He said he
favors foreign economic and mill
|tary aid to cope with the menace
of Russian aggression. But he
opposed any "global plan for gen.
eral free assistance to all man
kind on an organized scale as part
OF our foreign policy"
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
who is being doomed by some Re-
publicans as a possible presi-
dental candidate for the COP
nomination. was praised by Sena-
tor Taft for having made head
way. "by the force of his per-
sonality." in persuading Western
European nations to help in the
joint defense effort.
Blaming the start of the Korean
war largely on the Trum an ad-
ministration's lack of a foreign
policy. Senator Taft ca. ed for
the same basic foreign policies
for Asia as for Europe to check
communism wherever possible.
An uneasy peace on the 38th
Parallel in Korea would be better
than a perpetual war but would
not settle basic problems or end
the Russian menace, in his opin-
ion.
The bulk Of the book presented
Senator Taft's views on how that
menace was created and how it
can most effectively be met
throughout the world without en-
dangering the welfare of this
country and the maintenance of
liberty. The Senator offered sug-
gestions concerning international
organizations "as a means of Sc
curing peace with liberty"
/ Book Hit as Negative.
| Senator McMahon's review OF
the Taft book bristIed with such
phrases as negative and defeat
ist," a convenient revision of
history" proposals which are
amoral and timid," and "the
familiar pattern Of isolationist
Republicans"
The Connecticut Senator said
the book is amazing for its
blindness to the nature of the
problems we face today" and for
its total ignorance OF a sound
foreign policy for the United
States"
Sentence after sentence" he
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