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TrELVZMEDFORD (ORECOK) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, August 7, 1956 Country Lucky To Avoid Disaster, Democratic Platform Dratfers Told Democratic Convention Head-1 quarters. Chicago U.R) For mer Assistant Secretary of State William Benton charged today that "the country has been ; lucky to avoid disaster" under the foreign policy of the Eisen hower administration. He told Democratic platform drafters that "It's high tirne to return our foreign policy to com petent and experienced hands" of a Democratic administration. Benton, who also served at one time as a Democratic U.S. senator from 'Connecticut, was the leadoff witness as the Demo cratic National Convention Plat form committee began gathering ammunition for an all out elec tion campaign attack on the Eis enhower administration's for eign policy. In a statement prepared for delivery before the committee he said that "the Republicans inherited a good foreign policy blueprint." As long as the Re publicans "stuck to the blue print, they fared reasonably well," he said. "When they struck out on their own, trying to adjust t fresh developments, the result to quote one Republican with long experience in foreign at fairs, was a three-stage cycle. 'Bluff, boast and back down,' '' he said. "We have fewer friends to day and colder allies. The neu trals are skeptical of us, even to the point of contempt, out enemies are more confident even to the point of arrogance." The GOP administration, hf charged, also "has failed to counter Communism's appeal to the uncommitted and undevel oped nations." President Eisenhower's for eign policy aides also have "failed to rethink foreign aid or to project programs that would win the enthusiasm or allegi ance of the world," he said. By placing exaggerated Im portance on military pacts, Ben- Portland Officer's Request Refused Portland (U.PJ The Portland policeman whose allegations of payoff money to city policemen was a key factor in the indict ment of eight of his fellow offi cers by the Multnomah grand jury last week, has attempted to resign from the force. Jack Forest Olsen said he turned in his resignation last Saturday. It was refused, he j said. ' 1 Olsen said Capt. David H ; Johnson told him "it wouldn't be fair to myself or the force if I quit at this time and asked me ; to think it over for a couple of ' days." i The policeman said he had de cided "to stick it out." The 25-year-old officer said he decided to resign after The Oregonian printed a story of his reporting that some of his fellow officers were guilty of ac cepting payoffs. "Some of the men refused to work with me. They said they , couldn't trust me. I decided to resign rather than endanger the jobs and reputations of those men who would still work with me," Olsen said. "I didn't want i to pull them into this." 1 ton said, the Republicans "have got us into the fantastic posi tion of having to convince the world that we are for peace." Matter of Survival He urged the platform draft ers to "hammer away at these paramount issues . . . most sig nificant to our survival and to the welfare ofour children and our children's children." The Platform committee scheduled 39 witnesses for the foreign policy plank. Many were armed with statements highly critical of President Eis-enhower-and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. But the party's big gun in the foreign policy assault, former President Truman, will not tes tify until Thursday. Democratic leaders expect the Platform committee to come up with a blistering charge that dip lomatic fumbling by the Repub lican administration has 'dan gerously weakened the U.S. po sition in world affairs. Armed with such a plank, they plan to make foreign policy a major issue in the presidential and congressional election cam paigns this fall. The committee heard about six hours of testimony Monday on another major campaign is sue, the farm program, in the first day of a week's hearing. Former Secretary of Agricul ture Claude R. Wickard out lined a proposed plank calling for 100 per cent of parity prices for farm crops. Speaking as the chairman of a Democratic farm advisory committee, the Demo cratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Indiana urged full parity through 90 per cent support loans, plus direct purchases, subsidy payments, a food stamp plan and similar measures. The proposed farm plank also called for an international food bank and strategic stockpiles of surplus food for use in event of an atomic attack. But the committee's biggest problem agreement on a com promise .civil rights plank still was unsolved. Adlai E. Stevenson, front can didate for the Democratic presi dential nomination, and his lead ing challenger, Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, were represented as favoring a strong er civil rights plank than was adopted in 1952. Southerners Draw Lin So far, southerners have drawn the line -at going any further than in 1952. Democratic National Chair man Paul M. Butler sided to a degree with the southerners when he declared against direct endorsement of the. Supreme court decision, outlawing segre gation in public schools. Rep. John W. McCormack (D. 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