Evening star., 1952-10-05
President Hits
AtCriticism Of
Foreign Policy
BY Joseph A. Fox
Stor Staff Correspondent

OAhLAND, CallI., OCC. g.
President Truman tonight charged
Gen. Eisenhower and the Repub-
lican Party with spreading a wave
of filth" to wreck American for
eign policy. and insisted the former
five-star general must share re-
sponsibility for the withdrawal OF
troops from Korea in 1949, and
the Berlin blockade.
Hitting at the General, who has
been a harsh campaign critic OF
the Governments foreign policy,
the President declared:
1T was an injury to our ma
tional security to tear down the
confidence of people in those pol
icies of national defense which we
have all worked so long, and so
successfully. to put into effect.
"But that is what the Republi-
can candidate is doing. Now, I am
not going to let him get away
with this. He played a great part
in our foreign policy. -"
Hits irresponsible Attacks.
Mr.. Truman declared that the
attacks of irresponsible politi-
clans" are endangering the ad-
ministrations policies abroad and
encourage a breakdown in the
free world with a consequent
threat of war. The election is
fateful, he said.
The President got q standing
ovation as he came to the speak
er'S platform just after Daughter
Margaret had been introduced.
His speech was frequently inter-
rupted by applause, and laughter
greeted his jibe that Il want to
tell you that foreign policy was
not introduced into the campaign
by the Democrats. It was intro
duced by the top snollygoster of
the Republicans, and I want to
explain that I am not referring
to the general" Senator Taft Of
Ohio has been the principal Re-
publican critic Of the administra-
tion's foreign policy.
The Oakland speech. which was
the bitterest Of the Presidents
westward push for the Stevenson
Sparkman ticket, was delivered in
the Oakland auditorium under the
auspices of the Democrats of Ala
media County. It was the clincher
Of q one-two punch with which
the whistle e-stopping Truman,
ended his 36-hour drive for Cal
ifornia's 80 electoral votes in this
section.
At noon. in San Francisco's
Place Hotel, the President told
l 900 $10-a-plate luncheon guests
that the GENERALS surrender has
been complete-to the old guard,
to the lobbieS. to the mossbacks
Of every description. But it is
more than a surrender. It is the
tragedy of an able and amiable
human being, torn out Of the life
he was trained to follow and
showed around as a tool for
others. Mr.. Truman slapped par
ticularly at the generals social
welfare views.
COnfers With Politicians.
Between speeches, the President
held a series of conferences with
California politicians. and while
he got encouraging reports on
conditions in San Francisco and
the north. the reports from Los
Angeles were not so optimistic.
Leaders frankly don't know what
will happen there. and right now
they rate the State as uncertain
but the are hopeful. California
has not gone Republican in a
presidential election since 1928.
The President starts East to-
morrow, with his first principal
speech scheduled at Brigham
Young University. in Provo, Utah,
Monday morning.
In his indictment of Gen. Eisen-
hover for aligning himself with
reckless and irresponsible Repub-
lican extremists" Mr.. Truman said
the General had broken the trust"
of the American people. He said.
pointedly. that "the Republican
candidate. up to recently, has not
been an irresponsible outsider in
foreign policy"
The President accused Gen.
Eisenhower Of spreading the false
version of history that has been
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