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Show V-HNGTOlsW i Bipartisan Policy Is Not Helped By Misplaced Politics The effort to establish a bipartisan bi-partisan foreign policy was not helped by the letter of Mr. Gael Sullivan, executive-director of the Democratic National Com-, mittee, who called upon the Republican Re-publican National Committee to join in a party statement endorsing endors-ing the "Truman Policy" in Greece and Turkey. Obviously, Mr. Sullivan knows very well that the Republican National Committee had nothing noth-ing whatever to do with the decision de-cision that the Republican majority ma-jority in Congress will make. He should have known that his proposal pro-posal was . ineffective and the presumption arises that it was given publicity for the purpose of creating the impression that the Republicans are against the proposal to assist Greece and Turkey. Shortly after the proposal was made public, Senator Arthur H. Vandenbcrg, of Michigan, who has worked to formulate a bipartisan bi-partisan foreign policy, made a statement in the Senate, warning warn-ing that when our foreign policy "gets into the rival hands of partisan national committees, it is in grave danger of losing its precious character." Mr Vandcnberg also set the record straight as to the highly-touted highly-touted bi-partisan foreign policy. poli-cy. He said it has applied to United Un-ited Nations and to the treaties in Europe but to nothing else. For example, he reports that he had nothing to do with China policies or Pan-American policies poli-cies .except within the United Nations and that the first he ever heard of the U. S. Turkish policy was from the President about ten days before the matter was submitted to Congress. The Michigan Senator believes be-lieves that "we have no safe alternative but to uphold the President's hands at this dangerous dan-gerous hour," but he believes that total information "must be made available to Congress and 1 the country" and that Co 1 must completely explore ann3 i prove the means by which Jf I policy is to be implemented J I The Congressional ReeoM Is Well Worth Printing The Congressional Record been much maligned by enr3 pondents and commentators Congressmen have been hwSd criticized for verbosity Vj1y The criticism comes fro ' those who do not have the fu1 to read the record of the ton? and sayings of the CongrcS3 in session assembled. The f, 1 is that the Record comafaftl mass of information that is vai ' uablc to any person interest m the serious study of a . lative proposal. It is perfectly true that few' Americans have the time read and digest the speeches and debates that are reported or T read the voluminous append I which includes a variety of i ject matter. This does not j I tract from the usefulness of tE i Congressional Record to thoS who wish to pursue special suK jects. " In an effort to make the daily record of Congress available b! a capsule form, so that a few minutes reading will enable an individual to keep up with what is going on, Congress has in. eluded a Daily Digest, which attempts at-tempts to recount what has happened hap-pened in brief analysis. We doubt if the Digest will provide sufficient information for those familiar with the process pro-cess of congressional dchbcra-4 tions. It seems to us that Cod." gross would perform a public service by providing for a non-partisan non-partisan report of the Congressional Congres-sional day. If necessary, the publication pub-lication could be issued daily-while daily-while Congress is in session and contain, in addition to an account of the sayings and doings of Congressmen, a commentary on affairs by representatives of the political parties. .j1 |
