Evening star., 1952-06-28
Taft
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IOW ulSIlG 1OT CulCdSO, senator
Taft still claimed approximately
half of the 1906 delegates. One
more than half is sufficient to win.
He emphasized he does not claim
they are all pledged, but are for
him as of now.
Urges Drive on Communism.
In his speech at Charlottesville
last night Senator Taft urged a
crusade against communism by
propaganda and infiltration.
At the end of a day In which he
made a final bid for Southern sup
port in his race for the nomina-
ton, Senator Taft addressed an
outdoor audience of 5000 at the
University of Virginia Institute
of Public Affairs.
Outlining his foreign policy, the
Senator made these points:
/. The United States must pro-
vide moral leadership for the free
world, but it cannot continue to
spend at the present rate for de-
fense and foreign aid.
2. Arms should be furnished the
other free nations, but the time
has come to end economic aid
and organized world charity.
3. BY concentrating on air
power, and not attempting to have
millions of land troops ready for
q third world war on the conti-
nent of Europe, this country can
reduce the big defense budget to
a size that could be sustained
over the long period of uncer-
tainty that seems ahead.
Taft Supporter Chosen.
In the election by Virginia S 23-
member delegation yesterday,
Eugene Worrell of Bristol, a Taft
supporter, was chosen for the
Credentials Committee. This
committee will pass on the con-
tests from Texas and other South
ern States.
BY the same vote of IL to 10
Lester S. Parsons of Norfolk was
assigned to the Platform Commit
tee. Mr.. Parsons is uncommit-
ted, but was reported as leaning
to Gen. Eisenhower. The dele
cation also elected Mrs. Hazelle
Goodpasture, Taft supporter, as
Virginia's woman member of the
Platform Committee.
Despite the close vote on these
preliminary tests. Taft supporters
still predicted the Senator would
get 18 of the % delegates in
Chicago.
Former Representative T. v.
Smith of Illinois, now professor
of philosophy at Syracuse Univer-
sity, preceded Senator Taft in the
Institute of Public Affairs last
night. with talk on requirements
of the presidency.
Protection Against War.
When Senator Taft got up he
jokingly recalled that some Eisen-
hover supporters have suggested
he withdraw from the race. He
said he has termed their sugges-
tions ridiculous, but that after
listening to Prof. Smiths descrip-
tion of the presidency Il may give
it more considerations may be-
come a professor of philosophy" {"
Senator Taft said a successful
foreign policy is one that protects
the Nation from war. He ex-
pressed fear that in recent years
war has come to be regarded too
lightly as means of achieving
national policies.
The Senator said he thinks the
Marshall Plan helped Europe re-
cover and discourage Communism
and that the Point Four program
can do some good, if kept within
proper limits.
But he said he does not agree
with people who say Communism
can be stopped by giving vast
sums to country like India to
raise its standard of living.
''It is said we should assume the
moral leadership of the world, and
I think that's true" Senator Taft
said. But we might have little
moral leadership at home first"