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being made by Republicans in
the executive department and
Republicans in the Congress on
what our foreign policy should
be. This is not due altogether
to lack of coordination and con-
sultation between them. but it
is because, of fundamental diff
ferences within the Republican
Party itself on Americas his
toric role and policy in Europe
and Asia and in the world.
We have in the Republican
Party today irreconcilable points
of view. There are the extreme
isolationistS who would turn
their backs on the United Nations
and the world and go it alone.
One Of their devices is to pass a
constitutional amendment to
cripple the ability of the Presi-
dent to conduct foreign affairs.
Then there are those at the
other dangerous extremes who
would push us into intervention
in China even at the risk of an
other world war. You know who
these men are. There is no COM
promising with them. Either
resist them or surrender to them.
When I was President, I fought
them at every turn.
If the people should return q
Republican majority to the SEN
ate. these extremists would con-
slider they had received a man.
date to push their dangerous
courses to fulfillment at all cost.
This is one Of the compelling
reasons why am urging tonight
the election of a Democratic
Congress. Let us help restore
this great government to the
same eminence it occupied in
world affairs prior to this Re-
publican administration.
No New Foreign Policy.
And for the record, let it be
said that this administration
itself has in fact not adopted nor
proposed a new foreign policy
of its own. During the 1852
campaign the Republicans crit
icized the foreign policy of the
Democratic administration in
violent and exaggerated terms.
But no sooner did the, Repub-
licans take over power than they
quietly appropriated the very
same basic foreign policy they
had so bitterly and unjustly at
tackled. But they took it over
with a difference. What a sad
difference. The foreign policy
of the Democratic administra-
tion was bipartisan, and it was
administered as a bipartisan
policy. 1t was policy rejecting
the will and the unity of the vast
majority of the American people.
1t was policy that allowed for
no narrow partisan political ex-
ploitation. But the Republican
administration Immediately shut
out all Democrats and even the
Republicans who had worked
with Democrats on foreign pol
icy. Deprived Of all accumulated
of the previous DEM
ocratic administrations they
found themselves committing
blunder after blunder.
They seemed to lack under
standing and vision, and they
lacked the most essential of all
elements in the conduct of for
eign affairs-a true bipartisan
policy. And now we are paying
q costly price for this one-party
Republican policy-if it can be
called a policy.
This is one Of the tragedies of
our time. I have been saddened
by too many examples of retro
gression in the last 20 months,
but never have I been so dis
turbed by anything as by what
has happened to US in the field
of foreign affairs.
For until this Republican ad-
ministration. this Republic has
spoken officially with an authen-
tic voice as a Nation united.
Authoritative Voice
Throughout the Roosevelt ad-
mlnlstration and my own we
have had but one authoritative
voice, and this voice was under