U.S. POLICY OF CONTAINMENT

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26824, 1 September 1952, Page 7

U.S. POLICY OF CONTAINMENT

SENATOR SPARKMAN’S DEFENCE (Rec. 7 p.m.) „ NEW YORK. August 30. Senator John Sparkman, Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, denied to-day that the containment policy of the present United States Government was aimed merely at check-mating the Soviet Union or waiting for them to show their hand. Hitting back at Republican criticism of the Truman Administration’s foreign policies, Mr Sparkman said: “Containment has a wider, more creative and more dynamic purpose. It stands for a halt to Communist aggression wherever that appears, but even more tellingly it stands for the restoration of the strength of the free world as a warning to would-be aggressors.” Mr Sparkman, in a speech prepared for delivery at the National Convention of the American Veterans of the Second World War, at Grand Rapids, cited the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Treaty alliance, various mutual defence pacts, the Point Four programme and other projects as steps taken by the Administration to block the spread of Soviet aggression. "We are sharing our abundance with other countries to make them whole and strong, and we are doing all this not merely out of idealism but out of enlightened self-interest as well,” he said.