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EIGHT MEDFOFD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. October IE, 1956 Leading Democrat. Republican Tell View On Administration's Foreign Policy K4tlors not- For ten pilir if a major lu in the IVS6 rampaijcn dr It is dirud bv ipokrsmn for Ihr major parties in the dipatrhrs nitpn lor the Lmted Pre hv Sen. Alexander Wllev. senior Republlran n the Senate Foreirn Relations com mittee, and Ken. Mike Mansfield, also a member of that rommittee and vire ehairman of the Democratic National rommutff. THE DEMOCRATIC CASE By SEN. MIKE MANSFIELD Written for United Press If we need a specific example of what is wrong with this ad ministration's foreign polciy it is provided by the question of hy drogen bumb tests. Some weeks ago. the Demo cratic candidate for president made a proposal designed to ex plore the possibilities of stop ping these tests, not only by this country but by Russia as well. It was - a serious proposal advanced to meet a very serious problem. If the United States. Russia and. as will be the case sooner or later, other countries go on testing these bombs, every man, woman and child in the United States perhaps the world may be subject to danger of radio active poisonjns. That is scien tific opinion. If the President and Admiral Strauss (Chairman Lewis L. Strauss) of the Atomic Energy Commission don't know it, then it is about time that someone informed them. Mr. Stevenson reminded the Presi dent of this problem and sug gested a possible answer to it. Horror and Indignation How was his proposal greeted by the administration. Loud cries of horror and indignation came from first lieutenant Nixon and other members of the high com mand of the republican party. Then, apparently when the so called specialists in the White House discovered that the Amer ican people do not regard hydro gen bombs as "a matter to be dis missed lightly, the President himself took to the field. He promptly distorted Mr. Steven son's proposal and in effect ad vised the Democratic party and the American people that they had no business to bo discussing hydrogen bombs. The attitude of the adminis tration in this instance is not much different from its behavior in other critical foreign policy questions. It is a compound of pompousness and piety in words and stalling and stumbling in action. The Eisenhower administra tion came into power with bold promises of leading the way to disarmament and even put the forgotten man, Harold Stassen. in charge of this project. It was liberal with talk on the libera tion of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. It promised to seize the initiative in the struggle with Communism and to give the American people "bold, new, positive foreign policy." The unity of the West ern nations was going to be re inforced by a soldier in the White House who understood these matters and the old Demo cratic policy of "containment" was to be done away with. Europeapi Will Remember What has it delivered? It has delivered a measure of disarma ment by cutting our own armed forces without any asreement with the Russians to cut theirs. The people of Eastern Europe will long remember the Republi can campaign promises of 1952 j to "liberate'' them, but they will , remember them with bitterness ; If these countries eventually re ;gain their national freedom, and , I firmly believe that they will, it I will be in spite of. not because of the promise of this adminis i tration. j The administration has not f only failed to seize the initiative ! against Communism, it has al lowed the Communists to leap : the wall of containment and to make end-runs around it. Com j munist economic and political ; penetration was never more in I tense in Asia, the Middle East . and Africa. Even Latin America has begun to feel the impact of the Soviet drive. Western unity has not been j reinforced by this administra i tion despite the fact that the i President knows as well as any J one how vital that unity is to the security of the United States. I On the contrary, it has been ' permitted to disintegrate to the ! point where a failure in the I Suez Crisis could well mark-trie end of the NATO and other ma chinery of cooperation in the common defense of freedom machinery which cost billions of dollars to create. Foreign policy under this ad ministration has been neither bold nor new as promised. Yet I tiie time is rapidly approaching when we shall need both bold and new policies to safeguard the vital interests of the United States. We shall not get them from this tired administration which uses words where deeds are needed. This administration has not developed one new idea or one new policy in the field of for eign affairs. It has been getting by on the old Democratic policy which many Democrats have felt has, in many respects, outlived its usefulness Coon Protests ian Hearing Klamath Falls ,'U.R) Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) today pro tested the proposed hearing here Thursday by a Senate in terior and insular affairs sub committee on the Klamath In dian reservation termination act. and accused Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) of playing politics. "I don't doubt the necessity of a liquidation program," Coon said. "In fact, I have promised to introduce a delaying amend ment in the next session, to hold up termination proceed ings until the matter has been studied more thoroughly." But he criticized Neuberger, a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, for "Hying to tackle this compli cated problem In one day in the middle of the election cam paign." Coon said: "This obviously is a purely political scheme de signed to discredit candidates for office." Although he men tioned no names he indicated the move was aimed particular ly at Douglas McKay, former interior 'secretary who is Repub lican opponent to the election of U.S. Sen.' Wayne Morse, Ore gon Democrat. THE REPUBLICAN CASE ! By SEN. ALEXANDER WILEY Written for United Press When President Eisenhower came into office January, 1953, he pledged his administration to use "America's influence in world affairs with such fortitude and such foresight that it will deter aggression and eventually secure peace." To fully comprehend how the President has carried out his promise, let's look back to the world situation at the time he w as inaugurated. The United Stales was in volved in a bitter stalemated war in Korea that had already cost us 127,500 casualties. The search for a workable armistice had gone on for a year and a half with no results. There was a good possibility the war might explode into a general atomic holocaust with Soviet Russia. In Europe. Germany, unarmed and uncommitted, teetered nerv ously between East and West. ' Austria, promised her freedom 1 10 years earlier, was Russian occupied with no prospects in sight for the liberation she craved. Reds Making Inroads Trieste was a trouble spot be tween Italy and Yugoslavia, Iran with its vast supply of oil. was virtually under Communist con trol, and the Reds were making inroads into Southeast Asia. In our own hemisphere, the Communists were gaining an economic foothold in several countries and a political hold over Guatemala. Let's look now ot the world situation as of October, 1956. The Korean war was settled in July, 1953. under the terms of an armistice more favorable than those sought by the former administration. The President also concluded a mutual security treaty with the Republic of Ko rea which served notice on the Communists that any infringe ment of the armistice would lead to immediate United States re taliation. In Europe. NATO has been strengthened by the addition of the federal republic of Germany. Austria was freed in May, 1955. by a treaty under which the Red Army took its first step back wards since World War II. Agreement on Trieste By patient negotiation, the United States and Great Britain assisted Italy and Yugoslavia in arriving at a common agreement over Trieste. In Iran, the pro Communist government was overthrown, and the United States served in the role of mediator between Iran and Bri tain in settling the oil contro versy. SEATO was created in 1954, to deter Communist ag gression in Southeast Asia. In Latin America, the Organ ization of American States serv ed notice that it would not tol erate Communist subversion or influence in this hemisphere. Within months, the pro-Communist Guatemalan government was overthrown and replaced by one friendly to the United States. In addition, President Eisen hower caught the imagination of the world when he proposed be fore the United Nations' General Assembly in December, 1953, the establishment of an inter national atomic agency to pro mote atomic energy throughout the world for peaceful purposes. Again, at the Geneva confer ence last year, the President's "open skies'' proposal to allow reciprocal aerial inspection of Russia and the United States dramatically demonstrated the desire of this country for peace. Since he came into office, President Eisenhower has been resolute in his quest for peace. His accomplishments to date demonstrate the diligence of his search. The Russins have drop ped military aggression to com pete against us in the field of economics. But, in a world in transition, there are still many problems to be solved. 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