Evening star., 1952-09-12
Aeheson Says Critics
Of His Policy Offer
Recipe for Disaster
By Gornett D. Homer

secretary OF STATE ACQeSOn re-
turns to Washington after q
Kansas City speech in which he
termed Republican criticism of ad-
ministration foreign policy either
"glittering adjectives" or a pre-
scription for disaster"
Asserting that it is not enough
to call for a policy more "dy-
nanic.'' positive" and "afirma-
tive" without spelling it out, Mr..
AcheSon said I'VE cannot walk
through the dangers of the pres
ent on a bridge Of glittering ad-
jectives."
He added that if being more
positive" means trying to lib
crate people behind the Iron Cur
tain by force, then it is a positive
prescription for disaster"
Says Soviet Hates Rest of World.
In his self-styled "non-political"
address last night to the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists
convention in Kansas City, Mr..
Acheson also said:
l. Described Russia's current
"vicious" propaganda campaign to
stir up hate for America as show
ing up the falsity of Soviet
'pretensions Of peace"
2. Declared that American
foreign policy must be based on
the concrete reality" that hos
tility against the rest of the world
underlies all that the Soviet does.
3. Stressed "the fallacy of
relying solely on retaliatory
striking power" for defense
against the Russians.
Expects Ultimate Success.
4. Defended administration
policy Of trying to check Soviet
expansion while building up the
Western Worlds strength behind
military shield" as one that
ultimately will shift the balance
in our favor"
Mr.. Acheson planned to fly back
here today on special plane due
at National Airport about 4 pm.
He did not identify the critics
he assailed in his Kansas City
speech. But some of his sharpest
barbs obviously were aimed at re-
cent campaign utterances by Gen.
Eisenhower and his foreign policy
adviser, John Foster Dulles.
In New York last night. Mr..
Dulles said neither he nor Gen.
Eisenhower contemplated war
of liberation" when they recon-
mended stronger policy in East
ern Europe.
Dulles Blames Truman.
Gen. Eisenhower said recently
that the United States could not
rest until the Communist -domi-
mated countries Of Eastern Europe
are liberated. He later explained
he was advocating only peaceful
measures. President Truman had
interpreted his speech as increas- ,
ing the possibility Of war. Ii
Mr.. Dulles, in a radio interview,l Ii
blamed President Truman's mis- ,
interpretations" for any alarm the ,
Eisenhower speech caused in Eu.
rope. Mr.. Dulles has been con-
slstently urging a more positive
foreign policy.
Answering Republican criticisml
Of the administration's so-calledl
''containment" policy for Russia '
as inadequate, Mr.. Acheson said t
he did not think "containment" =
was good description of what +
the administration has been doing +
He insisted its efforts go beyond i
that.
Hands on Horn, Feet on Brakes. Ii
With obvious reference espe- I
cially to Republican critics in
Congress, the Secretary said sit !
is something Of a new experience
to be urged to be more positive,
dynamic and bold by many whose
chief contribution until now has
been in holding back"
He added that these critics
''have their hands on the horn ..
and their feet on the brakes"
"Our coattails." he continued,
"are ragged from the hands of
those who thought that we showed
too much Of all these dynamic
qualities when the President
shouldered the burden of saving
the Middle East in the Greek
Turkish program in early 1947.
There were no cries that we
were too negative when the Ber-
lin airlift was put on in 1948, or
the Atlantic treaty signed in the
next year, or the Point Four pro-
gram put forward.
THE only negative attitude on /