FOREIGN POLICY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 152, 29 June 1944, Page 6

FOREIGN POLICY

CONVENTION PLANK Republicans Pledged To Total Victory N.Z. Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, June 28. The Republican convention at Chicago unanimously adopted a foreign policy plank which stated: "We pledge the prosecution of the war to total victory, in full cooperation 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 members of our armed forces who have unexpired enlistments and who do not volunteer for further overseas duty. "We declare our relentless aim to win the war against all our enemies: firstly, for our own American security and welfare; secondly, to make and keep the Akis Powers impotent to renew their tyranny and attack; and, thirdly, for the attainment of peace and freedom based on justice and security. Not For World State "We shall seek to achieve such aims through organised international co-operation and not by joining a world State. We favour responsible participation by the United States in a post-war organisation for co-opera-tion among the sovereign nations to prevent military aggression and to attain permanent peace with organised 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 reciprocal trade interests and spiritual values recognised in these security" agreements. "The 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 econonomic stability, not only for the sake of the world but also to the eind 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 agreements with foreign nations. "In all these undertakings we favour the widest consultation of the gallant men and women of our armed 'forces, who have a special right to speak with authority on behalf of the security and liberty for which they fight." Decisive Victory First Mr. Joseph Martin, ' permanent chairman of the convention, said: "We oppose any attempts to negotiate peace or consideration of any peace terms until decisive victory is won." Mr. Herbert Hoover, addressing the -convention, said: "Only by a change of administration will returning soldiers find freedom preserved at home. Peace must be based on •co-operation with the sovereign nations. "Obviously there must be some sort of world organisation to preserve peace, but if the general assembly of these nations is not to be a mere debating society it should be divided into three regions— Europe, Asia and the Western Hemisphere—each given primary responsibility for peace in its area before calling upon the central council, especially 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." , ■ There was opposition by Mr. Wendell Willkie and 15 Republican governors to the foreign affairs plank of the programme."