Evening star., 1953-01-21
Eisenhower Policy
ONO Appeasement
Hailed in Congress
BY the Assoeioted Press

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today in a Congress marking
time for an early blueprint o.
his domestic program.
AS the din of a three day in
augural celebration died away
the 34th President faced the
task of putting into a state-of-
the-Union message his ideas fol
carrying on the great crusade
he pledged before his landslide
vote victory last November. Nc
date for delivery of the message
has been announced.
Gen. EisenhoWer's inaugura,
address yesterday was a broadly
stated outline of his foreign pol
icy creed. He left for later mes
Sages the details of his interna-
tional and domestic programs.
Thus Congress and the Nation
had to wait a bit longer to see
just how great change in exec
utlVe thinking was entailed by
the shift, after 20 years, from
Democratic to Republican con-
troll OF the White House.
Tw0-Party Backing Likely.
Despite a delay in getting his
aides installed in key Offices
of the Government, Gen. Eisen-
hover apparently could count on
much two-party backing in Con-
gress for his foreign program,
as he outlined it broadly in his
Commute inaugural address yes
terday.
Standing bareheaded in the
winter sunshine on stand in
front Of the Capitol, the brand
new President told the world
that great as are the problems at
home, Americas overriding con-
Germ is to make certain that
the future shall belong to the
free"
Reafflrming his campaign
stand for cooperation with other
free nations, Gen. Eisenhower
said that no free people can
for long cling to any privilege
or enjoy any safety in economic
solitude"
But he said other nations must
assume. within the limits of
their resources, their full and
just burdens in the common de-
tense of freedom.
Accent on Strength.
The first task of StatemanShip,
he continued, must be to de
velop the strength that will deter
the forces of aggression and pro-
mote the conditions of peace"
Then he sounded his keynote:
Realizing that common sense
and common decency alike dc
tate the futility of appeasement,
we shall never try to placate an
aggressor by the false and wicked
bargain of trading honor for Sc
curity. For in the final choice
a soldiers pack is not so heavy
a burden as prisoners chains -
The somewhat apathetic re-
ception by the estimated crowd
OF 125,000 persons for the in
augural speech-there were four
applause Interruptions - was
countered by glowing words OF
praise from both Republicans
and Democrats in Congress.
Senator's like Taft of Ohio, the
majority leader, and Wiley of
Wisconsin, the foreign relations
chairman, found the message
magnificent" and inspiring. !"
Democrats promised co-opera-
tion toward the overall goal of
world peace.
Hints of Legislation.
Some members of Congress
thought they found in the in
augural address, almost none of
which dealt with domestic af-
fairs, hints of legislative rec
concentrations to come.
Gen. Eisenhower'S indictment
OF economic solitude was
taken in some quarters to por-
tend a recommendation for more
liberal trade policies with the
western world.
His assertion that "any man
who seeks to deny equality in
all his brothers betrays the spirit
of the free and invites the mock
cry of the tyrant" might indicate
civil rights proposals beyond re-
moval of racial barriers in the
District of Columbia, a cam
paign promise.
Gen. EiSenhower'S promise to
develop strength to deter aggres-
sion was degraded as an indica-
ton that he will propose no re-
duction in the pace of American
and allied rearmament.
But he made clear his inten-
tion that foreign aid must bring
a matching effort by the bene-
flciaries to make themselves
strong.
Calling on Western Europe to
unity its defensive strength, the
new President held out an Offer
to engage with any and all
others in joint effort to remove
the causes of mutual fear anc
distrust among nations and SC
make possible drastic reduction
of ornaments.
This was taken as an invitation
to Russia to change her ways
Gen. Eisenhower showed he
was thinking about nucleal
weapon development work wher
he observed that science seem:
ready to confer upon us. as its
final gift, the power to erase hu.
man life from this planet"
Although Republican anc
Democrats alike praised the ad.
dress as "inspiring-'a message
of hope and faith"-and "a cleal
call to duty" some Legislators
complained that it dealt in gen.
eralitieS. They called for a more
cponiffo Y,r0oror,a