Evening star., 1951-01-06

A partial teTt OF Senator
Tatt's foreign policy address to
the Senate yesterday tollo,0s::
In very recent days we have heard
appeals for unity from the ad-
ministration and from its sup
porters. I suggest that these appeals
are an attempt to cover up the past
faults and failures of the admins
tration and enable it to maintain
the secrecy which has largely en-
veloped our foreign policy since the
days of Franklin D. Roosevelt
AS T see it members of Congress,
and particularly members of the
Senate, have a constitutional obli-
cation to re-examine constantly and
discuss the foreign policy of the
United States -.
Unity Deemed Desirable.
Certainly when policies have been
determined, unity in execution is
highly desirable, and in the prep
aration for and the conduct of war
1t is essential. During recent
months, the Republican minority
has joined in granting to the Presi-
dent those powers which may be
necessary to deal with the situa-
ton :. If there has been any de-
lay in the rearming, it has been
in the administrative branch OF
the Government
I have referred to the general
tendency toward secrecy on the
part of recent administrations. AT
Tehran and Yalta we secretly
agreed to a zone of influence for
Soviet Russia in Europe extending
through the Baltic States u the
Balkans and into the Eastern zones
of Austria and Germany. The re-
suit was TO establish Russia in a
position of power in Central Europe
which today threatens the liberty
of Western Europe and of the
United States itself.
Manchuria Agreement Assailed.
Our leaders secretly agreed te
turn over control of Manchuria te
Russia. and later hampered the
operations of the Nationalist govern
ment in combat against the Com
munists without consultation of any
kind with Congress. In Germany
our leaders adopted the Morgen.
thau plan while constantly denying
that they were doing anything OF
the kind, and without submitting
the questions in any way to Con-
gress for disussion The Presi-
dent claims the right without con-
sultation with Congress to decide
whether or not we should use the
atomic bomb.
We see now the beginning of an
agreement to send a specified num-
ber of American troops to Europe
without that question ever having
been discussed in the Congress OF
the United States. The Atlantic
pact may have committed us to
send arms to the other members OF
the pact, but no one ever MAIN
tanned that it committed us to send
many American troops to Europe
A new policy is being formulated
without consulting the Congress OF
the people. -.
Sees Senate By-Passed.
More and more 1t has become Gus
tomary to make agreements instead
of treaties, thus by-passing the
power intended to be conferred or
the Senate to pass on the wisdom
Of important principles of foreign
policy. 1t is still fashionable tt
meet any criticism by cries of iso.
lationism just as Mr.. Hoover's recent
speech has been treated. :.
I do not intend to say that 8
bipartisan foreign policy could not
be adopted. but there has been nc
real bipartisan policy, at any rate
since the 1948 election. :.
War Not Inevitable.
do not myself see any conclusive
evidence that (the Russians) ex.
pect to start a war with the United
States. And certainly see no rea.
son for a general panic on the as.
sumption that they will do so. W.
have clearly notified them that any
attack in Europe upon the Unitel
Nations means a third World War
and We are obligated to enter srcf
a war under the terms of the At
lantic pact I look at it from an,
point of view-and, I think, par
ticularly from the Russian poin
of view-and it is difficult to SCI
how the Russians could reasonabl,
entertain the hope that they car
conquer the world by militar.
action. 1t must seem to theil
thinkers an extremely difficult un
dertaking. ! believe they are still
thinking in terms of slow bu
steady advance by the methods
which they have used up to thi'
time. Those methods are danger
Gus enough.
Since there is greater posi-
bility, however, of a destructive wal
against our liberty than we hav'
ever faced in the past, at leas
since the Revolutionary War. ther'
is no doubt that we should 60 jus
as far toward preparing for wal
as we can go in time of peace
without weakening ourselves in tn,
long run and destroying forever tn,
very liberty which war is designed
to protect. .
U. N. Called ineffective"
.. In the present crisis wher,
the entire world is threatened bs
the Communist menace, the Unitee
Nations has proved that it is noi
only an utterly ineffective weapor
to check military aggression bu
that it is actually a trap for thoss
nations which rely upon it as al
Fulbright Ark), Sparkman (Ala)
(x) Gillette ua).
Interior and Insular Affairs
O'Mahoney (Wyo), chairman
Murray (Mont) Mcfarland