Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-25

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not possibly win.
II we could have said that to
the Kaiser, or to Hitler, or to Toto,
the history of the world would
have been very different.
1t hasn't been easy to bring the
free nations together into this
united effort to resist aggression
ut hasn't been easy to work out
these alliances. and to build up
our defenses, and to hold the line
against great odds and discour-
Iagement in Korea. It hasn't been
ieaSy-but it is a record of ire
mendous progress in mans age
old struggle for peace and security.
1 We have made great progress,
Ibut we are not out of danger yet.
I The Kremlin is still trying to
divide the free nations. The thing
THAT the Kremlin fears most is the
unity of the free world.
i Reds Promote Distrust.
! The rulers or the Soviet Union
have been trying to split up the
nations of the North Atlantic
treaty. They have been trying to
Isow distrust between us and other
free countries. Their great OBJ
Elective is to strip us of our allies
to force us to ''go it alone"
II they could do that, they could
Igo ahead with their plan of taking
over the world, nation by nation.
+ Unfortunately. it isn't only the
Kremlin that has been trying to
separate us from our Allies. There
are some people in this country
too, who have been trying to get
Jus to Ego it alone" There are
people here who have been sowing
Idistrust of our Allies and magni-
flying our differences with them.
Some Of these people are sincere
.lbut misguided, others are deliber-
lately putting politics ahead of
their country.
Now, & have no objection to
honest political debate. That's
the way things get decided in this
country.
But some of the people who
are trying to get us to "go it
alone" aren't engaging in honest
political debate. They know they
couldn't win that way. So they
have launched campaign to de-
stroy the trust and confidence of
the people in their Government.
They are trying to set the peo-
pie against the Government by
spreading fear and SANDER and
lies. They have attacked the in
tegrity Of the Joint Chiefs Of
Staff. They have maliciously at
tackled Gen. Bradley. who is one
of the greatest soldiers this coun-
try ever produced. They have
tried to besmirch the loyalty of
Gen. Marshall, who directed our
strategy in winning the greatest
war in history. They have de-
liberately tried to destroy Dean
/ Acheson-one of the greatest Sec.
retaries of State in our history.
"Smear Campaign Harmful.
That political smear campaign
is doing this country no good. It's
playing right into the hands of
the Russians.
Lies, Islander, mud singing are
the weapons of the totalitarians
No man Of morals or. ethics will
use them.
It's time that smear campaign
was stopped.
As far as I am concerned. there
ought to be no Democrats and no
Republicans in the field OF foreign
policy. We are all Americans. all
citizens of the same great repub-
Ilic. We have had a bipartisan
foreign policy in this country
since Pearl Harbor. I would like
Ito keep it that way. Tsknow a
great many Republicans who want
to keep it that way. too.
/ I say to them-tflis is the time,
now, to show the real loyalty of
1.-the Republican Party to the great
ideals on which this country is
Ifounded. Now is the time to put
la stop to the sordid efforts to
make political gains by stirring
'Iup fear and distrust about our
foreign policy. Now is the time to
Isay to the dividers and confusers:
INo political party ever got any
where in the long run by playing
lfast and loose with the security
of the Nation in a time of great
peril.
Partisan efforts to label our
foreign policytas "appeasement' p
Ito tag it as a policy OF fear" or
"timidity"-point to only one
thing. They point to our ''going
lit alone" down the road to World
War III.
Is it policy of fear to bring
1.-THE free nations of the world to-
Igether in a great unified move
ment to maintain peace? Is 1t a
policy of timidity to come to the
aid of the Greeks and the Turks
land the other free people who are
lighting back against the Com
Imunist threat? Is it a policy of
'lappeasement to fight armed ag-
erosion and hurl 1t back in
Korea?
| Common Sense Gives Answer.
/ OF course it is not. Everybody
with any common sense knows it
lis not.
/ And look at the alternatives
these critics have to present. Here
lis what they say. Take a chance
Jon spreading the conflict in
Korea. Take q chance on tying
Iup all our resources in a vast war
lin Asia. Take q chance on los
ling our allies In Europe. Take a
chance the Soviet Union won't
fight in the far east. Take a
chance we won't have a third
world war.
/ They want us to play Russian
.lroutlette with the foreign policy of
1.-The United StateS-and with all
1 the chambers of the pistol loaded
4 That's the kind of wisdom and
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