Evening star., 1954-05-13
.HouseF|areup
Snaps Foreign
Policy Truce
ConciIiotory Period
Between Parties
Proves Short-Lived

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floor after several Republican
members asserted that Demo
Gratis in the past fell consider
ably short of real cooperation
with the Eisenhower administra
tion's attempt to assure a unifiet
domestic front on United State
foreign policy.
The veteran Texan declare,
that the Democratic Party in tn
House and elsewhere is alway
ready to cooperate on foreign
policy. He added, however, tha
"it must be a foreign policy tina
is firm" He complained that h.
and some of his associates occa'
sionally had difficulty in deter,
mining exactly what the Eisen
hover administrations foreign
policy was at any given time.
Halleck Denies Charge.
Mr.. Halieck. apparently an
gered by the minority leader
remarks, retorted:
1T SmackS a little of injec.
ton of politics to suggest, as Mr.
Rayburn did, that there is M
foreign policy"
The Republican leader insisted
that the Eisenhower admins.
tration has gone farther thar
any administration ever did tt
keep the minority informed or
foreign policy"
Mr.. Halleck also contendeo
that the Eisenhower policy has
been firm" He recalled that
Democratic and Republican
leaders in the House and Sen
ate have been invited on numer-
GUS occasions to discuss foreign
policy problems with Gen. Eisen-
hover. Secretary of State Dulles
and Defense Department Off
cialS.
Cites His Own Experience.
Mr.. Halleck did not accuse
the Democrats of refusing to CO.
operate. He declared, however
that when he was in the minor
ity in the House after the Re-
publicans lost control of Con-
gress in 1949, he never was
called to the White House sun
til the Korean situation went
bad"
The Halleck-Rayburn ex-
change was in sharp contrast
to comments by Republican and
Democratic leaders in the Sen
ate yesterday.
Speaking against a back.
ground of an increasingly seri.
Gus situation in Indo- China anc
Southeast Asia, Senate Minority
Leader Johnson said that hi.
party was willing to go "more
than half way" to bring about
unity in external affairs.
Gas Americans interested ir
the preservation of our country
I think we should be able tt
work together in any area o1
foreign policy where we are ir
agreement" he told the Senate
Eisenhower Firm in Belief.
Earlier yesterday, President
Eisenhower restated his firm be.
lief in a bipartisan policy anc
asserted that he thinks our for.
eign affairs are being handled or
this basis, so far as possible anC
practical.
The President. at his pres
conference, drew attention, too
to Senate Majority Leader Know
lands statement of the day be-
fore in which the Californian
listed 81 occasions in 1953-54 OF
which there was consultation
with members of Congress b!
administration leaders.
Meanwhile, Secretary of Stat'
Dulles spent two hours yester'
day in closed session with th'
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee discussing Far East prob
lens.
According to Chairman Wiley
the Secretary reported that tht
United States Goes not have 8
request to send troops to Indo.
China under present conditions
U. N. Participation Predicted.
"The Secretary said he fell
that unless independence was as.
Sured the Associated States anc
unless the United Nations coulc
be brought into the picture tC
clarity the moral issues, the is.
sues would not be those on which
the United States could be asked
to send troops" the Senator dis.
closed.
He also reported that the Ma.
varre plan "has not measured W
to expectations" This military
plan for Indo-C China. named fol
French Gen. Henri Navarro, wa.
designed to enable French anC
native anti-C Communist forces tt
bring the c m m unist force.
under control in another year Of
so by greatly enlarging the ma.
tive Indo- Chinese forces and re.
ducing the burden on French
troops.
1t has fallen short, Senator
Wiley said. because ''politica
factors have been more impor.
tant than military factors'-ar
apparent reference to the re.
ported lack Of enthusiasm fol
the anti-C Communist fight among
some elements Of the Wet Ma.