| Show ipati an Gr Group up So Sought r Aid in ForeIgn Policy Nov 27 rPt rPt- US in Ed C C. Johnson D. D Colo ed Monday the creation of bipartisan advisory ad ion sion to help President sn shape the Ule nations nation's foreign rj a commission should be beby by national elections said 1 so so that we wc would on D I s I permanent foreign policy nations would know other we stand at all nn times prisons prison's sons son's proposal came as Sen N J J. announced c son R p port of oC a demand by Sen Taft CR R. R Ohio for a reexamination tion of the American role in international in international international in- in affairs It came too amid indications that much time of oC the short congress starting Monday will be occupied in foreign policy debate Taft said he will renew his reexamination reexamination reexamination re- re examination demand despite editorial editorial edi edl- criticism of his foreign policy views by the Toledo Blade Addressed Letter Hendrickson was one of the liberal progressive e and minded senators to whom the Blade addressed an open letter contending that Tafts Taft's election victory in Ohio did not represent a repudiation of administration foreign policies Taft said he thought the newspaper represented represent represent- ed only its own views With the R Republican can attack on foreign policies in n mind Sen Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son told a reporter he lie believes realistic two-party two cooperation on international affairs could be achieved if a commission of six Democrats and six Republicans were set up to advise the president dent Would ouId Stud Study Data The members of this commission commission commission commis commis- sion should be chosen by their parties and not the president Johnson said They ought to represent the Uw thinking of their parties It ought to be a continuous ous commission carrying over elections so that we would have havea a permanent foreign policy and other nations would know where we wc stand at all times Johnson said that such a commission commission commission com com- mission could be given the kind of secret background information about international affairs that the administration has sometimes thought it unwise to make generally generally generally gen gen- available to congress The commission could digest and analyze the multitude of incIdents incidents in incidents in- in that go into the making of foreign policy he said It then Ulen could recommend a course to the president Naturally the president would retain the final decision Hendrickson said that while Ohio's election may not have been settled on foreign policy issues he thinks the results all over the country indicated that the people generally had lost a lot lot of confidence confidence confidence con con- in Mr 11 Truman and had lost Jost faith in his policies policies policies-or or lack of them them in in the far east I think the people are becoming becoming becoming becom becom- ing concerned with our efforts I merely to buy friendship abroad instead of using some constructive means of earning that friendship the New Jersey senator said |
