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What Did The Republicans Do To Help Small Businessmen1?

They voted against loans to small businesses. (The record: 35 of 40 voting Republicans in the Senate voted on April 22, 1952, to abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Bince 1947 this agency has made 19,580 loans to small businessmen. Its record of repayment is 99 per cent.)

What Did The Republicans Do To Stop Big Business Monopoly ?

They voted against controlling monopolistic mergers. (The record: 59 per cent of Senate Republicans voted against the anti-merger bill in 1950. This bill plugged up a serious loophole in anti-trust laws, prevented large » corporations from making monopolistic mergers by purchasing assets rather than stock of corporations.)

What Did The Republicans Do To Stop Communist Expansion ?

They voted against any help to our allies in 1951. (The record: 54 per cent of House Republicans in 1951 voted to block any help—military, economic or technical—to enable our allies and friends to strengthen themselves against the threat of Communism.)

What Did The Republicans Do To Strengthen South Korea?

They voted against military help to Korea in 1949. (The record: 65 per cent of House Republicans voted against sending arms to Korea in 1949.)

What Did The Republicans Do To Make America Strong And Safe?

They voted to cut defense. (The record: 94 per cent of House Republicans voted to limit defense expenditures in 1953 to $46 billion, to reduce our number of new medium tanks from 3,400 to 300, to slow Air Force and Navy readiness by two years.)

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