TO TOTAL VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 233, 29 June 1944, Page 4

TO TOTAL VICTORY

Republican Convention’s ‘ Pledge FOREIGN POLICY PLANK (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received June 28, 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 27. The Republican convention at Chicago has unanimously adopted a foreign policy plank which states: “We pledge prosecution of the war to total victory in full co-operation with the United Nations and the all-out support of our armies and the maintenance of our navy under the competent trained direction of our general staff without civilian interference. “At the earliest possible time after the cessation of hostilities we will bring home all the members of.our armed forces who have uuexpired enlistments and who do not volunteer for further overseas duty. “We declare our relentless aim to win the war against all our enemies, first, for our own American security and welfare; second, to make and keep the Axis Powers impotent to renew their tyranny and attack; and third, for the attainment of a peace and freedom based on justice and security. “We shall seek to achieve such aims through organized international co-oper-ation and not by joining a world state. We favour responsible participation by the United States in a post-war co-op-eration organization among sovereign nations to prevent military aggression and to attain permanent peace with organized justice in a free world. We believe, however, that peace and security do not depend upon the sanction of force alone, but should prevail by virtue of the reciprocal trade interests and spiritual values recognized in these security agreements. Just Peace Treaties. “Peace treaties should be just. Nations which are victims of aggression should be restored to sovereignty and self-government. We shall seek in our relations with other nations conditions calculated to promote world-wide econo- • mic stability, not only for the sake of the world, but also to the end that our own people may enjoy a high level of employment in an increasingly prosperous world. We shall keep the American people informed concerning all the agreements with foreign nations in all these undertakings and we favour the widest consultation of the gallant men and women in our armed forces who have a special right to speak with authority on behalf of the security and liberty for which they fight.” Representative Joseph Martin, Permanent chairman of the Republican Convention, said: "We will oppose any attempts to negotiate peace, or the consideration of any peace terms till decisive victory has been won. Ex-President Hoover, addressing the convention, said that only by a change in the Administration would the returning soldiers find freedom preserved at home. Peace must'be based on the co-operation of the sovereign nations. Obviously there must be some sort of world organization to preserve peace, but if the general assembly of its organization is not to be a mere debating society it should be divided into three regions, Europe, Asia, and the Western Hemisphere, each given the primary responsibility for peace in its , area before calling upon the Central Council, specially in Europe, from where the dangers of world wars come. The basis of lasting peace for America must be the friendship of nations not the brokerage of power politics. , The Convention also adopted a platform promising the re-establishment of liberty at home, the removal of the Government from competition with private industry, the termination of rationing,' price fixing, and other emergency powers, the broadening of the social security system, the establishment of a strong, privately-owned air transportation communications system, the immediate reduction of taxes when the war ends, and a two-term limitation on the presidency.