U.S. REPUBLICANS’ OPPOSITION TO SOVIET AGGRESSION

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1948, Page 5

U.S. REPUBLICANS’ OPPOSITION TO SOVIET AGGRESSION

Statement By Senate Leader

WASHINGTON, October 4. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (Republican, Michigan), _ chairman ot the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to-night stated that the Republican Party would support the present United States policy for Germany. He criticised as “tragic” President Truman’s failure to obtain after the war a clearly written agreement giving the Western Allies free access to Berlin, and criticised President Roosevelt’s concessions to M. Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam. He added that the Republicans commended the value of regional arrangements, with the Western Hemisphere defence pact as a useful model. Senator Vandenberg warned Russia against “the mistaken belief that we are vulnerable because of our domestic divisions.” He said: “In 'the face of foreign problems lour units is as important as our atomic bomb. It is our best available insurance for peace. “We shall not compromise with aggressive hazards to peace and justice, because this is not the route to peace and justice, but if an honourable peace fails it will not be for want of our devoted Irving.

“The Republican Party onnoses the surrender of our clear rights to Soviet aggression. We condemn the transparent Soviet duplicity in rejecting our peace efforts to lift the Berlin blockade and restore fourPower tranciuility on a live-and-let-live basis. The Soviet’s record is a threat to everybody’s neace.”