Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-26
The Political Min
Politicians Beat Bushes
For Campaign Issues
6. O. P. Thinks 1t Hus Hit
Jackpot on Yulto Papers

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Jackpot on Yulto Papers
By Gould Lincoln
The politicians are hard at 1t, seek:
ing and trying to make issues for 1856
the year Of decision. That goes for
Republicans and Democrats alike. The
Republicans are grabbing at the Yalta
papers notwithstanding President
Eisenhower's declaration that nothing
: was to be gained by going back ten
years and showing that someone may
have been right and someone may have
been wrong.
But Yalta has been an issue for years
for the Republicans. They have been
shouting about it in earlier campaigns
and they will be found doing the same
thing, no doubt, next year. That's poli-
tics. UNDERSTANDABLE, and. II confined to,
the truth, justified in campaign. 1t
does not seem advisable. however, to
stir the Democrats in Congress to wrath
at this time, when President Eisen-
hover is seeking in every way to obtain
the greatest solidarity possible among
Americans in matters Of foreign policy.
The wrath of the Senate Democrats
over the publication Of the Yalta
papers, on the other hand. seems to
justify a suspicion that the records Of.
that conference are harmful to their
party. 1t was at this conference in early
1945 that Soviet Russia's Stain OBJ
tanned valuable concessions from the
late Franklin D. Roosevelt and British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill for
agreeing to enter the war against
Japan-conceSsions that have troubled
the world ever since.
TwO-Pronged Attack
In their attacks on the State De-
partment for the release OF these
papers, the Democrats have taken two
lines: First, that the papers were re-.
leased to be used as political ammuni-
ton by the G. o. P. And second. that
the papers were allowed to leak" to
the New York Times in reprehensible
manner, forcing the Secretary of State,
finally to make them public to all the
world. There is no slightest doubt that.
a number Of Republican Senators have
pressed for the publication of the Yalta,
papers, with the expectation they would
embarrass the Democrats. Indeed, the
pressure was strong. AS for the
leak" attack by the Democrats, there,
appears no justification. The papers
had been declassified, and there was,
no question Of security" involved.
Further, the New York Times exercised
real initiative when 1t went out to get
these papers. which had been placed
already in the hands of a number Of
persons
Senator George, chairman of the
powerful Foreign Relations Committee
and recognized spokesman for the
Democrats of the Senate on foreign
affairs and policy, has declared the
publication of the Yalta papers "un-
fortunate" at this time-not, however,
because of the possible criticisms which
could be made of the agreements en-
tered into at Yalta. -
George Is Statesman
He feared that the publication might
tend to anger our British and French
allies, and even the Germans, at q time,
when the important Paris agreements
looking to the rearming of Western,
Germany, still were hanging in the
balance. Senator George is a states
man who puts the interests of country
ahead OF eyerything-certainly ahead
of partisan politics. He does not desire
to embarrass the Secretary of State for.
politics sake and has set his face against,
the demands Of some of his Democratic
colleagues that Mr.. Dulles be called be-
for the Senate Foreign Relations Cons
Y0Nitfon n&I,
interrogation on the "leak." Indeed, her
takes his stand with Mr.. Eisenhower on
the whole issue Of playing politics with
the Yalta papers.
The George suggestion that O Big
Four conference be held this year in d.
search for better foreign relations and
an end of the cold war has been sympa-S
thetically received by Mr.. Eisenhower.
IT such conference gives any promise
of improving relations between the.
West and the East, the President and
Senator George will be side by side in
the effort. It is bipartisanship on the
highest level.
The Democrats, however, are on the
lookout for political issues. Senator
Neuberger OF Oregon has come UP with
the latest-Bring the Squirrels Back to
the White House. If he isn't careful,
he may have the Democrats running on
platfornl-Put the Squirrels Back in.
the White House. The reply of the
American voters to this one, however,
could be brief and to the point-"Nuts!"-
Nobody's killing squirrels. and Mr.. Eli
senhower knew nothing about the ef-.
forts to move them from the White
House.
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