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DEMOCRATS WILL SUPPORT EISENHOWER PROPOSALS
President Eisenhower’s first message to the Congress—calling for a positive foreign policy of international cope ration, including world trade, and a “middle way” in domestic affairs—presented broad outlines of a program which I and other Democrats will gladly support.
Practically every time in recent years when I have spoken of international problems, 1 have emphasized, as President Eisenhower did, that no single country can alone defend the liberty of all nations; that mutual security requires mutual cooperation and that mutual cooperation will be promoted by mutually beneficial foreign trade.
I was glad he called, once more for a practical unity of Western Europe and warned that our help to other nations must be measured by their efforts to do their share of our tjommon task.
The President’s announcement that the Seventh Fleet would no longer shield Communist China from Nationalist Chinese raids took the headlines, but is, I believe, of limited immediate significance. It is not belived in Washington that Chaing Kai-shek’s forces on Formosa could now maintain themselves on the mainland without our help and die President and Secretary of State have made it clear that the order to the fleet did not involve providing such help. Current thinking also is that there is no immediate way to win a military victory in Korea without hazarding a larger war which neither we nor our allies want.
In discussing foreign trade, President Eisenhower properly recommended removing some existing harriers and extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements. But he added: “this objective must not ignore legimate safeguarding of domestic industries, agriculture and labor standards.” My fear is that many Republicans will place a broader interpretation on that than the President intended.
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