The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-02
PARTY LINES SPLIT OVER FOREIGN
POLICY CONTROVERSY In SENATE
BIZ JACK RELL

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seats China's Communist govern
ment.
| This proposal was the focal point
in a foreign policy controversy ir
which Sen. Knowland (R-Califl
said that if present truce nego
| tiationS fail the U. S. should move
aggressively in Korea and take the
calculated risk of war with
| Russia.
Knowland, chairman of the Sen
ate Republican Policy Committee
said he believes most y. S. allie:
would support such a move. He
voiced uncertainty about Great
Britain.
Knowland also said in an MBS
radio broadcast last night he does
not believed Allied terms would
represent a ''truce with honor. -
He said they would leave Korea
divided and invite efforts by Red
China to grab a U. N. Security
Council seat.
| With Knowland in the vanguard,
many Republicans lined up behind
a committee-approved rider to a
money bill which would bar pay.
ment of u. S. funds to the U. N.
If it granted a Security Council
seat to any nation branded an
aggressor by the U. N. That means
Red China.
Democrats generally opposed the
rider and Sen. Hill DALAI said
| it would be discussed at a party
policy committee meeting today.
The Republicans also scheduled a
party caucus and a policy meeting,
presumably to test out COP senti.
ment.
| Sen.' Tobey GRIND, a member
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said he regards the
rider as ian expression of no.
confidence in President Essen.
hover"
| There were reports the President
might make his position clear be.
fore the Senate votes on the issue,
probably in midweek. He said pre-.
viouSly the rider seemed to be
very drastic.
! Meanwhile, the Senate continued
debate on money provisions Of the
bill, which carries 81, 104, 379, 600 to
run the State, Commerce and Jus.
tice Departments for the fiscal
year starting July /.
| Sen. Douglas (D-Ill) denounced
the measure, as it came from the
appropriations committee, as a
"phony' in which 'wastefulness
masquerades in the guise of econ.
omy." He promised yesterday to
offer amendments he said would
save 233 million dollars.
i Chairman Bridges tR-NH) of the
appropriations committee, on the
other hand, defended the bill as
an economy measure which he said
is nearly SO million dollars below
figures already approved by the
House.
Democrats succeeded yesterday
in knocking out of the bill a rider
which would give Secretary of State
Dulles blanket authority to fire any
one in his department in the next
year IL he thought the national
interest demanded it.
Sen. Cooper (R-Ky) called the
u. N. rider ian improper piece Of
legislation" although he said he Il
opposed to Red China's admission
to the U. N. Most senators agreed
on that point.
Knowland said last night thai
u. S. allies have been "eneour.
aging communism in Asia" By
coming out openly for admission
Of Red China TO the u. N.
IF they succeed in that they
win give Communist China Sc
much prestige that / think II viii
be very difficult to keep commu
nism from overrunning the rest o.
Asia" he said.
Knowland sided with Sen. Taft
(R-0hio) in declaring that If truce
efforts fail this country viii have
to seek ''other alternatives" IL
Korea even at the calculated risk
that Russia might come into the
war.