Show G 0 P URGES PURGES U U. U S s1 S. TO UNITE WORLD i Taft Opposes Outlining Postwar Policy CHICAGO April 21 UP The P-The The Republican national committee feels the United States is obliged to help bring about an understanding understanding understanding under under- standing comity and cooperation among nations of the postwar world a stand Wendell L L. Willkie characterized as an abandonment of isolationism Senator Robert A A. Taft of Ohio however said said he thought it a great mistake for the committee I Ito to have expressed any policy on postwar action as it did Monday night at its first meeting since the nation went to war Other leaders including Joseph JosephW W W. Martin Jr committee chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man and Clarence BUdington Keland Kelland Kel- Kel land and committee executive director director director tor expressed approval of the committees committee's committees committee's committees committee's com com- work which included a demand for relentless prosecution of an offensive war for peace with victory Willkie 1940 presidential nominee nomi nomi- nee said Republicans should see seeto seeto seeto to it that in the forthcoming primaries primaries maries manes candidates who will espouse these principles are nominated Thus the Republican party can canvin win vin and become a great force for liberal iberal enlightened ed government Willkie asserted Taft said the committee had drawn the teeth of Willkie's proposed pro- pro I posed resolution advocating ap- ap I coval of an active role for the United States in world affairs I ap-I so that hat no one could take exception to the language employed Walter Conn Continued on Page Pace Two Column One I toP GOP G 0 P URGES AIM OF WORLD UNITY Continued from Page Pace One S. S Hallanan of West Virginia who presented Willkie's proposal to the theco co committee said the final resolution resolution resolution tion was a victory for Willkie Taft didn't expand on his teeth drawing remark but it evidently referred to the fact that In the I comm committees committee's final declaration there was no such phraseology as as' asWill as Willkie WillMe Willkie Will Will- kie Me used in point 3 of the proposed statement he submitted to the committee Point of Debater Debate r Willkie's WInkie's point 3 contained the recommendation that the pa party ty r resolve solve to undertake now and In Inthe inthe the future whatever Just and reasonable reasonable rea rea- International responsibilities ties may be demanded in a modern world Although the deliberations deliberatIons' of the resolutions committee were executive reporters gained the impression impression Impression Im im- im- im that one of the prin principal points of debate wa was w-a-s s Willkie's phrase Just and reasonable international international inter inter- international national responsibilities Furthermore Furthermore Furthermore Further Further- more the resolution as adopted by the national committee nowhere no- no nowhere nowhere no no- where contained the word isolationism isolationism isolationism isola whereas Willkie had advocated advocated advocated ad ad- a direct repudiation of Isolationism We realize the final statement said that after this war the responsibility of the the nation will not be circumscribed within the territorial limits of the United States that our nation has an obligation to assist in the bringing bridging about bout of an understanding comity and cooperation among the nations of the world in order that our V liberty may be preserved and that the blighting and destructive processes processes processes proc proc- esses of war may not again be forced upon us and upon the free and peace-loving peace peoples of the earth On War Effort Of the n national war effort the committee said We demand the prosecution of an do offensive war war relentlessly and without reservation whatever it may cost in wealth energy and human life until the United States and its allies have won a a. complete victory over their enemies The committee declared it would recognize only peace with victory victory vic vic- tory and asserted there shall be beno beno beno no appeasement or compromise The resolution pledged preservation preservation of the two-party two system reserved the party's right to constructive constructive constructive con con- criticism of the administrations administration's administrations administration's adminis adminis- war effort asked that politics not Influence war work assignments that nonessential spending be cut drastically and nonessential domestic regulations be eliminated V |