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Show National Politics: (4) Foreign Policy And Conclusion The Korean invasion and consequent con-sequent American intervention have caught GOP foreign policy pol-icy makers flat-footed. For months they had been condemning condemn-ing the Administration's policies toward Russia and communism as too soft to be effective, and all are familiar with Senator Joseph McCarthy's futile attempt at-tempt to get Secretary of State Dean Acheson. But at the first instance of overt Russian aggression, ag-gression, the Administration acted act-ed forcefully to 'protect American Amer-ican interests. The Administration's foreign policy has been fairly consistent consist-ent there have been temporary tempor-ary lapses here and there, especially es-pecially in regard to Spain and Greece while Republican aims in this field have always been confused. On one side the GOP is still infested with isolationists, isolation-ists, and on the other there are Hearstists who have been crying cry-ing for millions, even billions, for Chiang Kai-shek and Francisco Fran-cisco Franco, regardless of the consequences to American economy econ-omy and foreign relations. Aid to either would hurt American world prestige, but what is more ridiculous is the fact that many of these Republicans have advocated all along that foreign for-eign assistance outlays should be sliced in order to balance the budget. Such inter - party contradictions toward foreign policy are bound to be felt in confused aims. The McCarthy fiasco, backed v even such influential Republicans Repub-licans as Taft and Wherry, has hurt the party's cause. It is refutable re-futable that instead of merely opposing general Adminisration foreign policy in a dignified manner, the GOP should have resorted to mass character assas-ination assas-ination and wild accusation to win votes at this fall's election. The entire McCarthy show was a shameless attempt to deny to state department officials their inalienable rights- of trial by jury and the assumption of innocence in-nocence until proven guilty. And if guilt had to be proven before the senate committee, the accused officials may now be adjudged acquitted in the absence of concrete proof. The McCarthy investigation has served only to incite mob hysteria hys-teria to an even higher pitch. Lack of a consistent foreign I policy and destructive criticism of Administration efforts to achieve one of its own will undoubtedly un-doubtedly cost the GOP many votes this fall among international-minded voters. Too many people today realize that this is now one world and that a vigorous attempt by all, parties and individuals alike, must be made before answers can be found to complicated foreign policy questions that get more and more dangerous with the passage of each day. As the (election nears the Democrats seem to have the edge. Administration supporters, the dominating factor behind the Democratic party campaign, have developed both a consistent consis-tent domestic and foreign policy pol-icy program, while the Republican Repub-lican party still gropes- in the dark, vainly looking for some common-ground on which to unify un-ify its widely-divergent following. follow-ing. The "Liberty vs. Socialism" battle-cry is a questionable domestic do-mestic policy reed to lean on for the fall elections, but even this small degree of party consistency consisten-cy is not evident in the foreign policy field. GWH |