Evening star., 1953-04-18
The Political Mill
Eisenhower Expounds
His Policy With Clarity
President Sees Eye to Eye
With Secretary Of State
By Gould Lincoln

The foreign policy Of the United
States under the Eisenhower admin
istration is no longer q matter Of con-
lecture. In his "crosS of iron" speech
to the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, President Eisenhower, with
firmness but without turbulence. with
willingness to negotiate but without
any note of appeasement, showed So
Wet Russia and the rest of the world
q road to peace, naming the mileStones.
Some of these mileStoneS are properly
Safeguarded disarmament program, a
united Korea and a united Germany.
The Presidents alternative Is united
free world, militarily strong at all times
to resist Communist aggression any
where.
The Presidents statement-widely
acclaimed-should have important i'm
pact in Washington. Here the critics
have suggested, with varying degrees OF
sarcasm, that the new administration
was at sea and no foreign-policy port
in sight. They have taken the position
that it was still the open SeaSon-for
attacks on the State Department and
on the Secretary of State. Some have
gone so far as to suggest that the hand
writing on the wall already was predict
ing an exit from the scene by John
Foster Dulles. Nothing could be farther
from the truth. President Eisenhower's
confidence remains in his Secretary
of State, who is in full accord with the
Presidents enunciated policy.
McCarthy's Critics.
Critics of Senator Mccarthy of Wis
conSin. particularly those who would
like to take meat AK in hand to deal
with the Senator. have Sneered because
the Secretary of State did not adopt
such tactics toward the Senator over
the Greek ship owners incident. They
have charged that control over the
State Department actually lay with
Senator Mccarthy, rather than Sec
retary Dulles. Nothing could be farther
from the truth. President Eisenhower
himself clearly answered any such i'm
plication when he pointed out, in an
SWer to press questions, that the Wis
conSin Senator cannot make any COM
mitment on the part of the United
States with any one: that power, under
the Constitution, lies, in the matter OF
foreign affairs, in the hands Of the
President and his Secretary of State.
1t is a fact that Senator Mccarthy
has admitted
A published report that the Eisen-
hover administration would accept ta)
a division of Korea at the waist line"
the old so-called Macarthur line-in
a settlement of the war there, and (b)
that it would accept a United Nations
6n ic1o af
where the Chinese Nationalist forces
are now in control, was fatty denied
at the White House. In his address to
the editors. President Eisenhower made
clear his objective was free and inde-
pendent Korea.
Not at Odds.
At the time of the original report,
efforts were made to make it appear
that the President and his Secretary Of
State were at odds-had opposing views
as to what should be done in the Far
East-and to attribute to Mr.. Dulles the
suggested willingness of the administra-
ton to come to such agreements. 1t
was Mr.. Dulles who called the Presi-
dents press secretary. James c. Hag-
erty, when he read the report in the
newspapers and said that denial must
be issued Immediately. And it was Mr..
Dulles who dictated the denial of the
report. which was issued subsequently
by the White House. President Eisen-
hover has firmly taken the side of the
Secretary of State in this controversy.
Indeed, the President and his Secre-
tary of State see eye to eye on foreign
policy of the United States, and while
the Presidents address to the editors is
his own, the policies enunciated in that
address are on all fourS with ideas in
the State Department.