Show ix definite foreign policy essential to america the issue shall nation adopt policy of participation in world affairs or shall we aim at nationalistic goal by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D 0 today america laces faces its first real problem as ai a world power italy lies before us ui general elf eis en hower as commander of the alred allied forces of Inva invasion slon suddenly b be e comes a ota statesman he Is a soldier ile he can win battles now he ha la Is the tha man ultimately responsible tor for directing american world policy what Is american world policy eisenhower Elsen hower is firm in his decisions certain in his bis own procedure because be is responsible only to his commander ln in chief but who Is his commander ln in chief roosevelt A man who may suddenly leave the scene in the midst of battle if the american public so decrees and then has america any fir firm in foreign policy unfettered by partisan political restriction a clear marked path that a fighting man or any other man can follow in a few short weeks from now a group of busy hard pressed men are ara going to sit down on mackinac I 1 island s and try to write what american foreign policy they think ought to be sponsored by the republican party these men have to face the question of committing the republican party to a definite foreign policy and ad paradoxically by committing their party to a definite foreign policy they may tree free both political parties of all commitment on foreign policy for if the democrats frame similar resolutions they can save america from a vicious split one which if it Is not avoided will crash pirty party lines and can destroy the two party system the rock of our democracy mo cracy the issue which america faces is simple shall we as a nation underwrite a policy which will implement our participation in world affairs or hall we retire unto ourselves and pursue the nationalistic policy which says in effect let the rest of the world stew in its own juice until we took the philippines america was able to leave the great and vital problems which should have no political tinge outside partisan politics Weli we have ave had other problems which have remained essentially senti ent lally ally nonpartisan non partisan n the problems take labor A vital question n but has labor ever voted solidly tor for one ticket or the other no the will cast its traditional republican votes in the coming election electia I 1 as it always has some of th the e CIO members will vote vota to support the adain admin tat ration others will vote as they dam please slavery really a i labor question that did nearly wreck the republic because it was made a partisan tsyupa when it was not an issue at sill all many of at the influential southerners irs were just as ready to tree free their slaves laves as the rabid abolitionists heated with emotional fervor failing to grasp the economic were wera to force them to again unless a cold calm discussion and understanding of the question of foreign policy takes place we rally may face ace another split which although it need not mean civil war may mean a horrid dislocation of our whole political system when wo we went into world war II 11 after ter pearl harbor the word isolationism lat was wall forgotten today it has come back into our vocabularies and la Is being batted about like other political footballs by people who really dont understand its implications and are woefully ignorant of what dissension it may cause politicians want to overlook it IL they tha cant this grouix group of republicans headed by deneen watson and a whole flying squadron of democrats too are insistent that they be ba allowed to let the people know they are going to speak their pieces and the only hope of ct lifting this discussion out of partisan politics is a settlement out of court an agreement by both ii parties artles on a tingle lingle foreign policy levs lets get back to that hot and perspiring day in washington late last month when deneen dencen watson and his bis colleagues leagues iol from this self appoint ed republican organization the republican publIc arl foreign policy assoria as socia tion walked across quiet lafayette park opposite the white house and presented themselves to chairman spangler of the republican national committee results of session it was wag some gome time before the of 0 this meeting between watson and hla his colleagues and chairman spangler of the republican national committee leaked out those with an republican anti slant wove wova the words dropped into a threatened split in the republican party a dri drive veto to nominate wendell willela for president to the person who tried to be objective jec tive it was neither mr spangler has one job to keep the P party together to eschew any favoritism for any policy or any person naturally these persistent persons who called upon him were presenting a problem I 1 believe it was that fact rather than what his critics said that indicated there was a leaning toward the status quo attitude the desire to remain a purveyor of platitudes and follow the tide rather than to face it this issue full participation in world affairs versus a return to nationalism or of isolationism if you will Is 13 according to our most earnest non partisans the most important issue which has faced the public and should not be a political football briefly what the men with their sleeves rolled up at mackinac Mackl nac in september have to face is this shall we good republicans come out frankly for world co operation or dodge the issue what the watson association demands is more than that and something the republican national committee must face will the party officially get behind a nationwide nation wide campaign to educate the people on the international issue unfortunately personalities do get mixed up in these things and wendell willkie has become the symbol of the international view that Is why it is essential if the party Is to take tho the issue out ot of partisan politic sand disassociate it from any of the individuals aspiring tor for the republican candidacy that they mustio must fio on record the monroe doctrine walter appmann has written a book called american foreign policy and the point he makes is this until 1900 politics cs did stop at the waters edge we had a foreign policy or thought we did which was the monroe monro doctrine according to lippmann we were living under a delusion namely that we had bad under the Monroe doctrine de dared our whole policy Ar america tor for americans period which implied of course that the rest of the world could do what it pleased so long as it kept off our grass we believed that we could enforce that policy ourselves that was not correct we were really depending on the british fleet to enforce it it happened to be to british advantage to agree so there was no trouble then ws we mixed in world affairs found we had to fight our own buttles battles and did it took over hawaii the philippines but we provide the means to hold them and so disagreeing on the various steps necessary to carry out our foreign policy we ve failed to provide the means meana to do so britain was busy elsewhere and one rooming morning we lost the philippines and came within en an eyelash of losing cosing hawaii and so BO we ve now face the necessity of framing a new foreign policy which must include the willingness to provide security for our own shores and those other contiguous 3 shores south america and canada which might bo be used by an enemy against us or we have to take part in prophylactic measures to stop the danger to our security in advance that issue iside once clarified by the two political parties will leave us free for or a good old fashioned free for all political campaign and if the best man inan wins or the worst man wins hla his policies cant affect the international welfare of the tha nation failure of both parties to clearly set forth their views on foreign policy may well create a third party movement which could wreck the two party system the rock on which our republic Is founded |