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Show I i 'I iff i i i ii i i Democrats Mo ve to Present National Front For the sake of national unity and to present a united front to the Communist world, the Democratic Party in Congress and elsewhere has gone along with President Dwight D. Eisenhower on sending troops to Lebanon. This, the Christian Science Monitor noted recently, is in sharp contrast to England where the Laborites sharply attacked similar policies of the Conservative government. Among statements sounding the unity theme were these: Adlai Stevenson, twice Democratic candidate for president, warned the Russians whom he currently is visiting not to make a mistake, that the United States would close ranks behind the president in an emergency. Former President Harry S. Truman said the president has "announced a policy which every citizen of the United States could support." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson has backed the president on the Mid-East moves but is using his extensive in-continued in-continued on Page Four) Democrats Move to Present National Front (Continued from Page One) fluence to the Pentagon reorganization, foreign trade and foreign aid bills passed. Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas gaveled down a member of his own party who rose in the house to question the president's Mid-East policy. He told Rep. Harry S. Reuss of Wisconsin that "This is neither the time nor the place to attack the Eisenhower-Dulles action." A number of factors contribute to the apparent harmony, the Monitor notes. "There is evidently quiet rallying to the flag and the executive execu-tive leadership in a national emergency. With American soldiers exposed in a foreign land it is regarded as bad taste to indulge in hasty partisan appeals. "There is also a mood of watchful waiting with a determination determi-nation not to rock the boat or make rash political commitments until the fog has cleared a little." However, there are definite signs that Democrats are not in agreement on what the administration is doing in the present crisis. The Senate voted $300,000 for a comprehensive investigation investiga-tion of the nation's Middle East policy by the Senate Foreign Relations committee. This was a sharp reversal of position. Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas had repeatedly tried to get authorization for the investigation. Until the trouble in Lebanon he could get nowhere. Shortly after the landing of troops, however, the Senate quickly voted approval of the investigation. in-vestigation. Many Democrats assert privately and a few publicly that President Eisenhower had no recourse but to send troops to the Middle East once the crisis arrived. But they contend that the crisis need not have arisen. They blame the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy or lack of it for bringing it about. |