AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN REPORT ON FOREIGN POLICY WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. The Republican Programme Committee’s report orepared in connection with the Presidential campaign states that the United States foreign policy must be determined on realistic considerations. “We must not allow emotions to unfit us for a rational analysis of what is best to safeguard the national interests. In the forefront of our policy must be an avoidance of all commitments to courses of action that might involve us in other people’s wars,” adds the statement. “We must not only reaffirm. but .with adequate defensive forces and mutually productive treaty relations with other American States implement the Monroe Doctrine as the permanently central feature of our defensive policy.” COMMUNIST NOMINATION NEGRO FOR VICE-PRESIDENT NEW YORK, Feb. 18. Mr William Z. Foster _ (national chairman of the Communist Party) has announced that Earl Browder and James W. Ford, a negro, will be presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively at the nomination convention to be held in New York on May 30. Mr Browder stated that the issue was not a third term for President Roosevelt, but the creation of a third party to represent the people.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24227, 20 February 1940, Page 9
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