The Key West citizen., 1952-09-30


the 6sld o. foreign policy.
The President, speaking from
the rear platform 1t his campaign
train special voiced praise Of Rep.
Mike Mansfield. Democratic candi-
date 20, the Senate against Sen.
Ecton (R-Mont and Democratic
presidential candidate Adlai Stew
enson for having known that
communism was dangerous and
that we had to take measures to
stop it."
Truman said Eisenhower didn't
haves such wisdom & foresight" "
after the war, while he was
still commanding general of our
forces in Europe" the President
continued, "he said he saw no
reason why Russia and the United
States would not remain the clos
est possible friends
Truman quoted Eisenhower as
having told congressional COM
mittee in November of 1915:
"There is no one thing that
guides the policy of Russia more
today than to keep friendship with
the United States"
Truman then went on to say of
his own former Army chief of
staff:
"His foresight was not nearly
as good as his hindsight.
"Of course, we can all make
mistakes, but the Republican can
didate was the commanding gen.
eral in Europe and was in close
contact with the Russians. His ad-
vice carried great weight and it
therefore did a great deal of
harm"
1t is true, the President con-
tinued, that 1--WE were all trying
Immediately after the war to find
means for living with the Rus
slams on a peaceful basis"
81 don't blame the Republican
candidate for his part in that"
Truman added, but he ought to be
honest, enough to admit his blund-
ers about the Russians.
Il get tired Of all the Republican
speeches and all their propaganda
saying that the Republican party
has been out in front against the
danger of communism. 1t simply
isn't So"
Truman said that Mansfield, as
member of the United States
delegation to the United Nations,
"stood right up to the Russian
Vishinsky (foreign minister) and
slugged it out with him and beat
down Russian attack on the for
eign policy of the United States"
in a debate that "won respect for
Mike Mansfield throughout the
world"
Back in 1945 and 1916, Truman
said, Gov. Stevenson. on important
missions to Europe, saw what the
Communists were up to, worked
nightly for international cooper
alton" and was lone of the first
to warn that the Russians were
becoming a threat to Europe"
The Republicans, the President
asserted, haven't had a single
constructive idea about foreign
policy since Sen. Vandenberg
died" He referred to the late
Michigan Senator, VINO is regarded
as the architect of the bipartisan
foreign policy.
The President carried his anti
Eisenhower barrage into Montana
after telling North Dakota voters
the general should be sent "back
to the Army where he belongs. "
The goal in his current S,500-mlle
coast,to-coast tour shaped up as
an effort to strip Eisenhower of
his glamour by picturing him as
the dupe of an "unholy crew" of
campaign advisers.
And he accused COP vice pres
ident nominee Richard NJ. Nixon
of having a voting record against
everything that is good for the
people.
But 1ruman'S assault on the Re-
publicanS at Havre overshadowed
other attacks made to campaign
crowds comparable in size and en-
, thuSiaSm TO those he spoke to in
his l94S campaign for a White
House term in his own right.
He accused the &c Iblicans of
irving to make po capital out
of the ti-h'ing in D.
He S, this COZ wed into
Korea I'M 1850 TO 81 Rcd In
vasion ".oc the sake . our own
Secur to preSele freedom
in the world"
We know we could not wait
while the attack spread and
dragged tire whole world into a
war-a war which would be atom.
ic this time. with the bombs falling
on America"
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