Evening star., 1951-01-30
COP. P.Ra|IyPointsUE
Foreign Policy as
Main 1852 Issue

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New Republicans in Congress
and party members in the District
looked today to foreign policy al
the main issue in the 1852 cam
paign, after hearing their Senate
and House leaders tell how tc
secure the Nation against outside
attack and inner weakness.
Chairman Taft of the Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Minority Floor Leader Wherry anc
House Minority Leader Martin
last night topped off a rally of
more than 1000 by accusing the
Truman administration of un-
certainty and confusion thai
threaten disaster.
In his speech at the rally ano
reception in the Hotel Statler fol
the 81 new COP members of Con-
gress, however, Senator Wherry
apparently differed with Senator
Taft on the question of sending
American troops to help Western
Europe.
Sees Further Commitments.
There are compromisers," he
declared. who would send token
force to Europe-just a few, a
limited number. they say, to in
spire Western Europe to defend
itself. This is the toe n-the- door
approach. Commit one division tc
the monstrous fallacy that Russia
can be conquered on the ground
before being brought to her knees
by air power. and you are obli-
gated to commit unlimited divi-
sionS.
1T would be national suicide, in
event of war, to commit the
United States to a land war with
Russia until the war-making pow
er of Russia has been pulverized
by air power, supported by an in
vincible Navy
Senator Taft, final speaker at
the rally sponsored by the Re-
publican Club here and the Re-
publican State Committee of the
District. did not refer specifically
to sending troops to Europe. He
stated recently he would be will
ing to have limited number OF
divisions sent to assist in Western
Europe's defenses.
Speaks for Assistance Policy.
"The detailed program to be pre-
sented by the Republican Party
can hardly be determined until
there is more cryStalization OF
opinion" he told the gathering
last night. But our policy must
be based on assistance within oul
capacity to assist those nations
which are willing and anxious te
battle communism at home ano
abroad.
ut must be based on a program
which maintains America as the
mighty fortress of liberty, un.
assailable from without and strong
and sound within. We must
meet head-on any trucking te
Communist sympathizers, any ap.
peasement of Russia which is like
ly to lead to more aggression, any
waste of our resources with the
idea that We can buy the support
OF nations who, of course, cannot
be bought, and any dissipation o1
American resources which viii
weaken the American people"
Mr.. Martin centered his attack
mainly on a charge that the Tru-
man administration through out
right defiance of Congress has
weakened our military establish
ment to a point which made pos
sible the appalling defeats oul
forces experienced in Korea ir
the early days of that military
venture"
The job of the Republicans ir
the 82d Congress, and in then
aim to elect a Republican Presi-
dent and Congress in 1852. he
said, Is to END the ''vacillating, in
ept and confusing foreign policy
.doubly weakened by appeasement
that has brought us to the brink
of war"
Hits SOcialistic Program.
Hardly less important, he added
is the job of stopping the cir
responsible. wasteful and socialis-
tic domestic program which has
weakened us at home"
Senator Taft predicted that the
82d Congress will ignore Presi-
dent Truman's recommendation
on Fair Deal measures and mot
embark on any new ventures in
domestic policy"
The Nations international wor-
ries really started, he asserted
when w. Averell Hartman and
the late Harry Hopkins "domin-
ated" American policy at the Yal-
ia Conference.
Both of them" he charged
like many other Government of
flcials at the time, were apparently
convinced, perhaps by deliberate
Soviet Communist design, thai
communism was another form
OF democracy. Henry Wallace
thought it was a little better thar
our FORM
The American people, Senator
Taft said, are willing to make
sacrifices in Government controls
taxation and drafting of men. But
the people have a right to know
that such moves are necessary ane
to ask that the Government cut its
non-defense spending, he contend.
ed.
They also know" he said, that
we cannot assume to run the world
They know that if we take or
commitments heavier than we cal
assume we may well bring thi.
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