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Show Page Two V FRIDAY, JULY 13, T 962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES dDcliind the Jteacttine& Republicans who have been waging a frontal attack on the President's domestic policies be-lieve they can now strike best at his foreign policies by attacking the men around the President rather than the President him-self. This is one of the reasons be-hind the recent Republican criti-cism of State Deartment Policy Planner Walt Whitman Rostow. Critics say his celebrated ion of U. S. foreign pol-icy puts too much wishful faith in Soviet "good intentions" a la Teheran and Yalta and would pave the way for unilateral dis-armament and eventual Cold War defeat. While Rostow and the Presi-dent are at pains to deny these charges, there is no indication that Republicans are either sin-cerely convinced or are planning to ease up on their attacks on the men around the President, whom they consider the real vil-lains of the New Frontier. It is a little difficult for the GOP to attack "President Ken-nedy's Republicans" in many Cabinet and sub-Cabin- et posts. The President's own personal popularity and sacred bipartisan-is- m of foreign policy leave Re-publicans frustrated in attacking foreign policy differences unless a major foreign policy blunder occurs. However, the men around the President and especially those in the second echelons of the New Frontier who enjoy no such im-munity or popularity except Re-publicans to step up their attacks and are now seeking White House guidelines on handling them without adding fuel to the partisan fires. Advisor Historian Arthur K. Schlessinger Jr. has already felt the sting or partisan abuse. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is a prime target of GOP foreign pol-icy critics. Republicans and conservative Democrats alike are seeking lib-eral Chester Bowles' scalp, be-- ences with the Kennedy Admin-istration feel he was won public sympathy for his quiet toil on the massive complexities of his job. It is the State Department spe-cialists and Brain Trusters the GOP is gunning for now. Rusk, an old hand at fielding foreign policy politicking since his State Department service un-der Truman during the McCarthy Era, has managed to be person-ally inoffensive, politically agile and does not hesitate to let aides shoulder both responsibility and criticism. Republicans are also ham-strung in the criticism of Rusk's policies because of his service with New York Gov. Rocke-feller as head of the Rockefeller Foundation before picked for the State by JFK. Republicans, especially 1964 Hopeful Rockefeller, cannot at-tack Rusk's foreign policy views since they largely reflect Gov. Rockefeller's own thinking. This is why Kennedy was politically shrewd in picking Rusk. The GOP is also hard put to attack Treasury Secretary Robt. Dillon (a Republican) for his fiscal views. Defense Secretary McNamara for his military poli-cies since he came from the presidency of the pro-Republic- an Ford Motor Co., and Kennedy Administration trade policies can not be logically attacked by the GOP since they were formulated by Republican Banker Howard Petersen, the President's Trade Advisor. The Republicans are deter-mined not to hold off their fire and, while unable to blast away at the "Kennedy Republicans," they are stepping up their fire on Cabinet and Sub-Cabin- et under-lings in the same way the late Senator McCarthy aimed barbs at lesser aides. This is one of the reasons be-hind the President's recent warn-ing to career State Department employees to "Get out of the kitchen if they can't stand the (political) heat." It's going to be lieving that they can drive him from his new post as WhiteHouse Advisor on under-develope- d na-tions in the same way he was hounded out of his job as Under Secretary of State. The slightest upset in our deli-cately balanced African policy will be laid only too quickly to liberal Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Men-ne- n Williams, with partisan glee. Liberal Averell Harriman will be held personally and political-ly accountable as Assistant Sec-retary of State for Far Eastern Affairs for anything serious hap-pening to our foreign policies in Asia and the Pacific and espe-cially if Harriman's personally-arrange- d Laos truce collapses. The GOP is only too anxious to step up its attacks on Richard Goodwin, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs and the country key Cuban strat-egist. Many members of the President's own party would like to see Childe Richard go. No frontal attacks are planned! on the President himself because of his high personal popularity, the widespread feeling that he has the ultimate answers in for--i eign policy and that "politics stop at the water's edge" when the chips are down, as it did even , after the Cuban invasion fiasco. Curiously, Secretary of State Dean Rusk continues to remain ramarkably free of widespread criticism for several reasons. Republicans drafting party strategy on foreign policy differ- - stepped up as the 1962 political campaign begins the day after election day this November. Agriculture, Secretary Free-man and especially his aides are already under fire to resign since the Billie Sol Estes farm subsidy scandal. The GOP has been try-ing to turn labor criticism of Labor Secretary Goldberg into an anti-Goldbe- rg drive. Com-mrec- e Secretary Hodges is under fire for "unimaginative" han-dling of the nation's business problems and for inviting for-eign firms to operate in economi-cally distressed areas of the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Ribicoff has long been charged with playing politics in his cabinet post. It's the. lesser lights in the sub Cabinet posts the GOP is now gunning for, believing Cabinet heads and eventually the Presi-dent would become vulnerable if their power to protect subordi-nates is removed. It remains to be seen whether any heads will really roll as the GOP beefs us its legal investi-gative arm to probe every nook and cranny of the New Frontier. The GOP's stepped up "anti-administratio-n" campaign is now sparing the President himself in the same way Democrats were wary of tangling with Eisen-hower's popular appeal, but the JFK lower echelons are( "under the gun." Are you working on the solu-tion or are you part of the problem? ! Court decision on this case could be a temporarily delaying factor on the project. Sen. Moss said the California comments on the Dixie Project proposes submission of an in-ventory of water supply and uses in the full Colorado River Basin and in the individual state when-ever a report is made on a po-tential project in the basin. Sen. Moss pointed out that the Bureau of Reclamation makes such an inventory whenever a water pro-ject is investigated, and said he felt the California request was unnecessary. The Senator said he anticipat-ed no problems with the Depart-ment of Interior report on Dixie as a result of the adverse Cali-fornia comments, and predicted that a favorable report would reach the Congress shortly. California Raising Objections to Utah's Dixie Project The state of California has raised some objections to the Dixie Reclamation Project, Sen. Frank E. Moss said this week. The Senator expressed confi-dence, however, that despite the adverse comments of California the Department of Interior will find the project feasible and will shortly recommend its authori-zation to Congress. Moss revealed that the Califor-nia comments on the project, not made public by the Department, questioned whether there was enough uncommitted water to meet the requirements of the Dixie Project. Since the water would be drawn from the Virgin and Santa Clara rivers, tribu-taries of the Colorado, the views of California were sought on the project, along with those of the other lower basin states. "The California objections are in line with the state's historic opposition to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado by any other state. We in Utah re-member all too well the bitter battle California waged against the Colorado River Storage Pro-ject. We won that project despite California's millions and we will win Dixie too. "I suppose we should have ex-pected California to go to any length to find grounds to oppose Dixie, but it does seem unbecom-ing for a big and rich state like California to oppose impound-ment of a small amount of water to irrigate a few thousand acres in arid southern Utah, and to provide the small communities there with additional municipal water and power." Sen. Moss said the California comments on the Dixie project also strongly recommended that no new Lower Basin projects be authorized until the Colorado-Arizon- a law suit over the divi-sion of the river's water is set-tled in the U. S. Supreme Court. This Court has now scheduled additional arguments on this case for the first week of the new term of the Court in October. Mr. Moss said the delay in a Supreme t7m ON K-MOR-E Uftere Ifa IF 0 (L V IF ! rn 1 mm I .1). Is orfl 1 1 Rot0 ifcl I FittfslPl795 fjTl i n 8 your Trust jjBdlj IdJIJllulJ rlfe mm I j JIM BEAM 88 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON rj ,. ,,, WtZ, H "'"I" ' nilMIILIIB I IIIIILlllMIIJUtlllBim!),!,!!!!, Illlluiummn mVmmtllm,m limWl j Winn in nnirini in .mnn M.m-..ur.- .r iniwirniinriniiii unnn --Tuninmim IK j 0 AM tlheTSime I THE NEW kaaur 1230 I On Every Radio Twelfth Naval District Names Commander Rear Admiral Elmer E. Yeo-man- s, Commander Naval Forces, Japan, will assume duties as Commandant of the Twelfth Na-val District this fall. Read Admiral George Russell, Commandant since Sept. 1957, will retire after 45 years of naval service. A 1924 graduate of the Naval Academy, Admiral Yeomans was superintendent of the Naval Post Graduate School at Monterey, Calif., for three years before he was ordered to Japan in 1960. He holds a Master of Science de-gree in Marine Engineering from the University of California. A native of Indiana, Admiral Yeomans was awarded the Le-gion of Merit for his service as Strategic Planning Officer on the staff of the Commander Subma-rine Force, Pacific Fleet from May 1944 to Sept. 1945. Born in Ashtabula, Ohio, Ad-miral Russell was appointed to the Naval Academy from Ver-mont in 1917 and graduated in 1921. Admiral Russell was twice awarded the Legion of Merit award for exceptionally meri-torious service in World War II. |
