Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
"A Foreign Policy for Americans
Toft Charges Roosevelt and Truman Regimes
Encouraged Spread of Communism in World
By Senotor Robert A. loft

the Communist attack. The
Communists took the Secretary of
State at his word. They knew
that we permitted the taking over
of China by the Communists and
saw no reason why we should Sc
Iriously object to the taking over
tof Korea.
The Korean war and the prob
lens which arise from it are the
final result of the continuous
sympathy toward communism
which inspired American policy.
The result today is that Chinese
Communists have taken over prac-
tically all of continental China,
and from that point they have
sent armies into Korea and Tibet.
and are threatening Indo-C China,
Burma, Thailand and all of South
east Asia.
The result of the administration
policy. therefore. has been to build
up the strength Of Soviet Russia,
so that it is, in fact, a threat to
the Security of the United States.
Our liberty is threatened by the
Russian military strength, backed
up by the fifth-column strength
which the Russians are always
able to develop among Commu-
niStS in every nation in the world
Soviet Worse Than Hitler.
I feel that Russia is far more
threat to the security of the
United States than Hitler in Ger
many ever was. There are sew
eral reasons for that belief. Prin-
cipally, it is based on the great
development of air power. which
permits airplanes to be built that
can fly from Russian territory or
Russian bases all the way to the
United States. 1t is certainly pos
sible that Russian planes can be
built. in time, able to fly to the
United States and return. The
Russians also apparently possess
the atomic bomb. or at least we
have to allow for that in our
plans.
OF course. the Russians have
much greater manpower than our
selves. and if they can also swing
the manpower of China, as they
seem to be doing at the present.
they have an overwhelm-
ing superiority in manpower, if it
can ever be brought to bear
against the United States itself.
Therefore, today We find our
selves with the greatest military
threat from foreign sources We
have faced since the days of the
Revolution. We find
that the United Nations is a weak
reed to lean upon. and we are
forced. therefore, to the develop
ment of some other policy to COM
bat Russian aggression.
In was in March, 1850, that
Gen. Bradley. chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified be-
fore the Senate Committee on
Appropriations that he was salts
fled that budget of $13 billion
for fiscal year 1851. with about a
and a half men in uni
form. was sufficient for the inter-
ests OF the country.
Says Policy Has Changed.
OF course. the Korean war has
occurred since that time, but the
present program of $40 to $50
billion a year is not to meet the
war but to meet the DOW
erful threat of Soviet Russia. The
Korean war itself only takes one
tenth OF the total of men now re-
quested and perhaps costs IS orI
Sc billion year to conduct. TIE
threat from Russia was exactly
the same and from the same Rus
STA in early 1850 as it is today. It'll
is our policy which has changed.
from "A Foreign Policy for Ameri-
cans. Copyright. 1851. by Robert A.
TAFT. Published by Doubleday d Co, Incl
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