Evening star., 1951-01-30
6. Q. P. Stresses
Foreign Policy
RaI|yiing Point
Taft, Wherry, Martin
Attack Trumun as
Climax Of Rally

New Republicans in Congress
and party members in the District
looked today to foreign policy as
the main issue in the 1852 cam
paign, after hearing their Senate
and House leaders tell how to
secure the Nation against outside
attack and inner weakness.
Chairman Taft of the Senate
Republican Policy Committee,
Minority Floor Leader Wherry and
House Minority Leader Martin
last night topped off a rally of
more than 1000 by accusing the
Truman administration of un-
certainty and confusion that
threaten disaster.
In his speech at the rally and
reception in the Hotel Statler for
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-in- the-door
approach. Commit one division to
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 q 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 our
capacity to assist those nations
which are willing and anxious to
battle communism at home and
abroad.
1T 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 to
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 Of
American resources which will
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 point which made pos
sible the appalling defeats our
forces experienced in Korea in
the early days of that military
venture"
The job of the Republicans in
the 82d Congress, and in their
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 "ir-
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 recommendations
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
f1cials at the time, were apparently
convinced, perhaps by deliberate
Soviet Communist design, that
communism was another form
OF democracy. Henry Wallace
thought it was little better than
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 and
to ask that the Government cut its
nom n-defense spending. he contend
ed.
"They also know" he said, that
we cannot assume to run the world,
They know that if we take on
commitments heavier than we can
assume we may well bring this
country to complete disaster"
Republican National Chairman
Guy Gabrielson and officers of the
Club and State Com
nittee spoke briefly, as did the new
Senators. The Rev.
Bernard RraSkann cbop1oip ~