Today and Tomorrow
By Waiter Lippmarm
FOREIGN POLICY AND
CIVIL RIGHTS
Although the Convention adopt
ed the platform a few hours after
Stevenson's nomination became
a certainty, the
men who put
t o g e ther the
long section on
foreign affairs
were not think
ing very much
aboutany Pres
idential candi
date. For by no
stretch of the
waiter uppmann i m a g i nation
can this section be read as a
serious and responsible state
ment of what would be U.S. for
eign policy if a Democrat became
President.
The many paragraphs are not
a platform on which a party can
stand. They are a heterogeneous
heap of planks thrown together
in the hope of pleasing every
pressure group, wherever locat
ed, with which politicians have
to reckon. The result is not
statement of national policy but
a collection of items supposed
to appease or attract in the
various localities.
The best thing that can be said
for the Democratic foreign poli
cy platform is that it is no worse,
no more demagogic and no more
irresponsible, than was the for
eign policy section of the Repub
lican platform on which Gen.
Eisenhower ran in 1952. Indeed,
there is reason for wondering
whether the authors of this Dem
ocratic platform did not use the
Republican platform of 1952 as
a working model. For on the Far
East, the Middle East, and on the
European satellite countries, the
Democrats in 1956 are making
most of the same promises, rais
ing most of the same hopes, and
tying themselves in most of the
same knots, as did Mr. Dulles
when he wrote the Republican
platform of 1952. The reason the
two platforms are so much alike
is that both are designed not as
national policy but as voter bait.
nOV. STEVENSON, will, no
" doubt, have to say now what
Gen. Eisenhower said four years
ago, that he approves of the plat
form and will run on it. But if
he is elected, he will have to do
what Gen. Eisenhower and Mr.
Dulles have done, which is to
hope that the country will forget
what the platform says, and that
the loose words will be regarded
as part of the great game of poli
tics, not to be identified too
closely with the conduct of for
eign affairs. '
There was no evidence, so far
as I could see, that the Conven
tion was interested in the plat
form on foreign affairs. For
while every delegation was, no
doubt, interested in appeasing or
attracting one or another of the
pressure groups, none of the dele
gations was much interested in
all the groups. The platform as
a whole aroused no interest in
the Convention as a whole.
...
THE real and the most serious
business in the platform was
the part about civil rights. My
own view is that the outcome
may well be regarded in the
future as an event of great signi
ficance and great promise in the
history of American sectional
and racial relations.
For who that has known the
tension which has followed the
decision of the Supreme Court
would have dared to hope that
the Northern and the Southern
Democrats could find common
ground, could find it all things
considered with no rancor, so
calmly, with such an overwhelm
ing determination on all sides
to be tolerant and accommodat
ing. -
THE words of the platform are
an unequivocal declaration in
favor of using persuasion to
bring about compliance. Insofar
as the words chosen to say this
are somewhat muted, are not
emphatic and defiant, are couch
ed in the language of understate
ment, it is because the Demo
cratic leaders. Gov. Stevenson
himself and Mrs. Roosevelt, who
is the keeper of the party's con
science on this issue, were wise
enough not to force the hands
of the Southern leaders. There
are great masses of the Southern
people who are not persuaded,
and if they are to be persuaded,
it will have to be by people who
live in the South and know its
problems.
For those who believe that
desegregation must be ended,
but that it can be ended only
by consent, and never by force,
there is nothing weak in the civil
rights plank. It is, indeed, a
courageous act of accommoda
tion on the part of the political
leaders of the South, and one
which does them great honor.
Words, political words at a
convention, are cheap. But this
was an act which, because it
means so much to the internal
peace of the nation, has given
the Democrats a big claim on
the confidence of the voters. It
has given them the right to say
that they have shown themselves
competent to deal responsibly
with as difficult a problem as
exists within the borders of the
United States.
Copyright 1956.
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.
History Books May Label 1956
Year of Vice Presidential Race
By LYLE C. WILSON i
United Press Correspondent
San Francisco (U.R) The
history books probably will call
it the vice presidential campaign
of 1956 and
with good rea
son. Adlai E.
Stevenson
made a brief
appearance be
fore the Demo
cratic Nation
al Committee
i m m ediately
c iviuoo alter nis nom
ination for president. He made
a strong point of the fact that,
man is mortal and subject to
death's call at any time, that he
himself might die in office.
Some days before that Presi
dent Eisenhower's new confer
ence questions failed to bring
up the subject of his health.
Surprised, perhaps, Mr. Eisen
hower contributed on his own
that he would shortly have
another medical examination
and would report to the people.
If the voters do not realize
now that the vice presidential
nominee of both parties should
have presidential qualifications,
they will be aware of it before
this campaign is over.
had not denied it. Your corres
pondent's informant said he hop
ed it wasn't true. But if it was
he added, there would be an
avalanche of endorsements of
one name on the list Richard
M. Nixon. The vice president
arived here yesterday. He will
leave San Francisco with a re
nomination in his pocket.
Former President Truman's
reputation as a master political
strategist took a shellacking in
Chicago. Some of his one-time
best friends believe he still is
thinking in terms of his upset
presidential election victory of
1948. Otherwise Mr. T"s pol
itical strategy has not paid off
much. He picked a loser in 1952
hand picked him. That was
Stevenson. He picked a loser
at Chicago this year. Gov.
Averell Harriman of New York.
The Democrats then spanked Mr.
Truman again by nominating for
vice president a man whom he
ardently dislikes, Kefauver. That
could be the crudest cut of all.
Mr. Truman is on record with
respect to the 1956 presidential
ticket, like this:
1. Stevenson can't win, can't
carry a state other than those
he carried in 1952.
2. Well maybe he would win
if Mr. Truman helped him.
Kefauver is wholly unaccept
able as a presidential candidate.
That's a severe indictment,
especially when it is remember
ed, as it will be, that vice presi
dent's so often succeed in office
presidents who die.
Nearly 60 per cent of Ameri
can men aged 65-69 are still in
the labor force, as well as 40
per cent of those in ' the 70-74
age bracket.
Sunday. August 19, 1956
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Optometrists Set
Graduate Seminar
Resident optometrists of
southern Oregon will attend a
graduate conference-seminar in
Medford Tuesday, Aug. 21.
The one day seminar will be
held at Rogue Valley Country
club under the chairmanship of
Dr. A. M. Skeffington,. nation
ally recognized vision specialist,
and is sponsored by local mem
bers of the optometric extension
program.
Dr. Skeffington, who is con
ducting a series of graduate
seminars on the west coast,, will
discuss the importance of vi
sion, the four great develop
ments in the vision field and the
application of lens fitting and
the uses of lenses in presbyopia,
anisometropia, and myopia.
A morning session will start
at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, with two
afternoon sessions scheduled at
West Coast Shows
Passenger Increase
During the first six months
of 1956 the number of passengers
boarded on West Coast flights
have increased 13.7 per cent,
with 12,294 more passengers
boarding than in the same per
iod in 1955. according to Tom
Croson, WCA vice president of
sales.
In the same six months. Cros
on pointed out. the net sales
of the line increased 16.49 per
cent, reflecting the greater dis-
1:30 and 3:30 p.m. A special
evening session will held at
7:30 p.m. following a dinner
meeting.
Optometrists, their wives, and
technicians and assistants in the
vision field have been invited
to the meetings. Optometrists
from Klamath Falls. Grants
Pass, Roseburg, Ashland and
Medford are expected to attend.
tanees flown by passengers.
Through June 1956. 101.848
passengers boarded flights com
pared' with 83.554 in the first
half of 1955. he said. Croson
added that West Coast airlines
DC-3s have flown 9 per cent
more miles in 1956 with the not
sales increases almost twice that
figure.
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Madison avenue gray flannel
suiters call "soft selling." His
campaign as the Democratic
vice presidential nominess, will
be a' folksy bit, pitched in a soft,
low key.
The South got a Democratic
civil rights plank which it
doesn't like, but with which it
can live because it must most
of the South, that is. The Dem
ocratic Party of the state of
South Carolina met before the
Chicago convention. recessed, and
will meet again to consider the
situation. South Carolina might
bolt'. The South doesn't, like that
Democratic presidential ticket
much better than the civil rights
plank. For many Southerners
Stevenson' was the best of a bad
bargain. It probably is fair to
say that the South like Kefauver
considerably less than it likes
Stevenson, which is faint praise.
Republicans arriving here for
the GOP National Convention
report a rumor that Mr. Eisen
hower may follow the Steven
son lead a little way on the vice
presidential choice. . The word
was that he might submit a list
of a half a dozen men, any one
of whom would be acceptable to
him.
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that rumor except that Presi
dential Assistant Sherman Adams
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