Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-28
Allied Officials Fear
Effect Of Taft S Blast
Al u. n. in Korea
By the Associated Pres.


dered today whether the Repub-
lican administration may seri-
ously consider radical changes
in Far Eastern policies if Korean
truce talks collapse.
Their concern stems from ideas
which Senate Majority Leader
Taft put forth in a speech read
for him at Cincinnati Tuesday
At Vancouver. Canadian Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister Lester
Pearson said if Senator Taft's
advice became United States
policy it would be deplorable and
a terrible blow to the United
Nations.
Senator Taft said if armistice
negotiations fail the United
States should tell Britain and
other allied nations, 1--WE are
withdrawing from all further
peace negotiations in Korea"
Change of Direction Feared.
He also asserted the United
States might as well abandon
any idea of working with the
United Nations in the East and
reserve to ourselves completely
free hand"
These and related proposals
he made appeared to diplomats
here to suggest a change of di-
rection and a severing of ties
between the United States and
its allies which the Eisenhower
administration has so far gen.
orally observed and protected.
Senator Taft's speech found
no Endorsement from his col
leagues on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee who were
willing to comment. Senator
Sparkman, Democrat. of Ala
bama. said it may have tor
pedoed chances for a truce in
Korea and it may have
thrown a harpoon into the Big
Three talks in Bermuda"
Gen. Eisenhower, British Prime
Minister Churchill and the
French Premier are scheduled to
meet in Bermuda next month.
Bad Timing, Sparkman Says.
II can't understand the very
bad timing in this thing" Sena-
tor Sparkman said in an inter-
view. Communist Russia has
been trying to drive a wedge be-
tween the United Nations allies,
and now Senator Taft's speech
appears to do it for them"
He called the Taft speech "a
diametrical contradiction" of
Gen. Eisenhower's policy.
Arthur M. SchleSinger, jr., and
James E. Doyle. co-chairmen of
Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton, said the Taft speech was
Gin direct contradiction" to Gen.
EiSenhower'S stated policy. They
called on the President to "re-
assert his leadership of a United
States foreign policy which has
the United Nations as it's key
stone"
Senator Hickenlooper, Repub-
lican, Of Iowa, said he was mot
prepared to agree with Senator
Taft yet" Senator Smith, Re-
publican. Of New Jersey, ''this
is such an important matter
I'm not going to say anything"
Time to Keep Mouth Shut
Chairman Wiley of the For
eign Relations Committee re-
called that a Norwegian states
man in a time Of tension with
Sweden so years ago said. "now
is the time to keep ones mouth
shut" Wiley added he was max
ing mo personal application"
but had in mind "all of u.s."
Senators Tobey, Republican, of
New Hampshire, and Humphrey,
Democrat, of Minnesota, in
speeches at Cincinnati last night,
reaf1rmed their support of the
U. N. At a news conference.
Senator Humphrey called Sen
ator Taft's speech very unfor-
tunate.'
Clark M. Eichelberger, exec
utive director of the American
Association for the United Ma
tons. a private group seeking
to win support for U. NJ, dis
closed in New York he had
wired Senator Taft:
I'VE believe your counsel to
abandon working through the
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