CONFUSING MR. TRUMAN

Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1946, Page 8

CONFUSING MR. TRUMAN

Received Sunday 8.40 p.m. , WASHINGTON, Aprjl 14. The Republican National Committee's appraisal of the Rrst year of the Truman administration, charges that the President succeeded only in spreading eompounding confusion m handling foreign and domestic affairSj and the organisation of his own administration. , 3Ihe report, whieh is de^eribed as the most savage blast ever direeted against President Truman, .uses the words confused, confusing, and confusion flfty-six time in its forty-five hundred words. President Truman is accused of, flrstly, fostering a misunderstanding with Russia; secondly, approving of an incredibly stupid poliey towards Argentina; thirdly, paying only lip service to the United Nations; fourthly, permitting the Council of Foreign Ministers to degenerate into a faree; fifthly, falling short of American commitments for American religf, thus dooming millions to starvation; sixthly, deliberateiy practising secret diplomacy; seventhly, ignoring pledges to Poland', Rulgaria and Yugoslavia. Turning to the domestic field, the report declaies the under Truman, national affairs were in a perpetual erisis and alleges that the " President liad ehosen the leftward path of radical experimentation at the price of alienating .members of Congress both Democratic and Repu'vlican, who were indif-' ferent to the pressure of the C.I.O. Politieal Aetion Committee.