Evening star., 1952-08-04
6. 0. P. Is Badly Split
Over Foreign Policy,
Stevenson Declares
BY The Associated Press

COLUMBUS. Ohio. Aug. Al
Gov. Adlai Stevenson Of Illinois
messaged Ohio Democrats today
the Republican Party is "splitl
down the center" in a "contortion
Of bitter division" about foreign
policy.
The Democratic presidential
nominee cited foreign policy diff
ferences between Republican,
Senator Bricker of Ohio and Gen.
Eisenhower, the COP standard
bearer.
Cites Bricker's Views.
Although he did not mention
Senator Bricker by name, Gov.
Stevenson said the Ohio Senator
has chiefly distinguished himself
by being against the foreign policy
position of Gen. Eisenhower.
Gov. Stevenson said Michael v.
Disable, former price stabilizerI
who is opposing Senator Brickerl
for his Senate seat, is close to Gen.
Eisenhower'S foreign policy views.
Gov. Stevenson's message was
prepared for reading to the Ohio
Democratic Convention, openingl
at 10 am. (EST), in Columbus
Memorial Hall.
Senator Bricker, who backed
Senator Taft Of Ohio against
Gen. Eisenhower for the G. o. p
presidential nomination, told al
reporter when informed of Gov.
StevenSon'S statement:
HE (Stevenson) might do well
to concern himself with the split
in his own party. The Republican
Party is more nearly united than
the New Deal Party"
Bricker Gives Position.
my position has always been
what I consider best for the
country, what I think is best for
the taxpayers of the United States,
and the protection of our re-
sources for the generations yet to
come" Senator Bricker declared.
THE time has come to de-
termine foreign policy not in Eng
land or in Moscow, but in the
United States.
"One thing I have accomplished
is to call the attention of the
American people to the under
mining of constitutional principles
upon which we have built this
country. 1t is evident that Gov. i
Stevenson and the Democratic
Party consider the Constitution
just what they want it to be in
support of their program of gov
ernmental power and control over
the people and business"
Gov. Stevenson told Ohio Demo-
Gratis they have special respon-
sibility" to keep Democratic Gov.
Frank ]. Lausehe in Ohio and to
send Mr.. Di Sale to Washington.
He said Gov. Lausche has "given
Ohio decent, progressive, effec-
tive State adminiStration-and Il
think I have learned something of
how important and how difficultI
it is" 1f
Lausche and Di Sale to Talk.
Gov. Lausche and Mr.. Di Sale |
are scheduled to address the con-
vention tonight. 1t. Gov. George
D. Nyle was slated to give the key
note address this morning.
Contrasting with the Republican
"split," Gov. Stevenson said is a
Democratic party united. deter
mined and aggressive as seldom
before"
He told the 1,200 Ohio delegates
there is a good deal at stake" in
the November election-"a good
deal at stake for our own country,
for the free world and for civiliza-
ton"
Gov. Stevenson said the Amer
lean people must decide whether
to entrust foreign policy based on
cooperation among free nations
to the party which has created
and cherished that policy-or to
the party which has opposed that
policy and is today split down
the center in a contortion of Bit
ter division about it,"
Gov. Stevenson said the same
decision must be made on do
mestic policy-whether to goI
along with the Democrats who
took us out of the worst depres-