Show Acheson Strikes Back i At G GOP 0 P Critics Seeking Resignation I M I I I i II I I Iii hits Is Of Taft Tail Urging Policy Recheck By Br John M. M I. I WASHINGTON Nov 18 UP iT- iT Secy of State Dean Acheson has decided to fight it out with his Republican critics some of ot whom want him fired This became clear Saturday Inthe in inthe inthe the light of his sharp attack Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day night on statements statements statements state state- ments made by Sen Robert A. A Taft R. R Ohio It was verified by Acheson's aids In Friday nights night's speech Acheson Acheson Acheson Ache- Ache son said without naming Taft that he had read that the Isolationist isolationist isolationist Isola has disappeared from the American scene and that a new figure has appeared whom horn he called the Taft in P statements statements statements state state- ments said that anybody is an idiot who ho calls anybody else an isola isolationist Asks Arms Aid Study He called for a reexamination of the American program for re rearming rearming rearming re- re arming western Europe Acheson spoke before the National National National Na Na- Council of Negro ro Women In an acidly humorous series of jibes which drew f frequent r e q que u e n t chuckles from front his audience he suggested ted a is the te same thing as an Isolationist and declared those who advocate such a course incapable of the very foundations of leadership But the significance in the speech appeared to lie not so much in what he said as the fact that he said it Ever since the election Republicans have been demanding his resignation on the ground that the voters had shown their lack of confidence in him His own Democratic party is reported to be divided with divided with some leaders considering him a political political political cal liability and others convinced he should remain in office President President President Pres Pres- ident Truman told a news conference conference conference confer confer- ence Thursday that Acheson stays Has lias Alternatives C s Staying Acheson appeared at least in theory to have these al alternatives alternatives alternatives al- al He could take his Jus political po po- po- po beating in silence and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps seek some working truce with his critics Or he could coun coun- Friday night he lashed out and there appeared to be no doubt that as a result Washington was in for a first class fi fight ht particularly particularly in view of the strengthened Republican minority in the senate and Tafts Taft's position as a party I leader ca d e r. r Acheson launched his attack against a background of foreign policy development de in the last few years He stressed the leading role of the United States in Europe particularly and pictured the rearmament of tile the west vest as the creating of a military shield against Russia The organization on of the west behind this shield and the promotion promotion promotion promo promo- tion of oC nationalism in Asia as a force against communism he said See Page Pago 6 G 6 0 ACHESON Continued from Page 1 are things which demand years and years ears of effort Reviews Policy In the light of what I am saying saying saying say say- ing Acheson went on does it make sense to say I want to look at this all over again to see whether we should have started on it Is Ills that the role that a leader I in these troublous times these dangerous times wishes to take in inthe inthe inthe the world today l 1 think your our answer is that it is not Acheson led into the subject by saying he had read in recent days that the isolationist has become become become be come extinct We Ve are told that there are arc not any more isolationists and we are told that it is very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist anc and it hurts the feelings of people to use that phrase and that all isolationists isolationists isola isola- are extinct they extinct they are just justas as dead as the dodo or ot the sabre- sabre tooth tiger Appears on Horizon But there is a new species which has come on the horizon and this new species species species-I I call it because the says I want to reexamine all our policies and all our pro pro- grams And I was very much puzzled when I heard about this new species of coming coming coming com com- ing on He said he wondered what it meant and suggested that it might be the same as a farmer who goes out in the morning and pulls up his crops to see how I. I they have done during the night or as a navigator who instead of checking ing his course wonders why I ho he ever er started on the voyage at all Acheson wound up his at atthe atthe atthe the idea of policy reexamination by saying it is the same thing as isolationism He said a person or a nation which takes that view is sitting sitting- in isolation |