REBUFF SEEN TO McCARTHY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27213, 3 December 1953, Page 11

REBUFF SEEN TO McCARTHY

Criticism Answered By Dulles

<Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. The Secretary of State, Mr Dulles, had met a long evident need in the Eisenhower Administration by answering criticisms from Senator McCarthy, the Washington “Post” said in •» a leading article today. The article said that Mr Dulles had stated yesterday that in return for assistance to the Allies the United States had a right to expect co-operation and the sharing of burdens, but that assistance did not give the right to dictate the trade policies of its Allies. “This is especially so when, as in the case of Great Britain, which Senator McCarthy criticised so unfairly, that trade has satisfied the objectives of the Battle Act and the United resolution barring strategic items from Communist China,” the article said. There was an intensely practical reason for this, for dependence on the Allies was grounded in self-interest. The only safe place for isolationism tc-day was in the graveyard. “Mr Dulles has stated the case—in language that is eloquent as well as courageous—for a sort of international co-operation for sheer survival, to which President Eisenhower has so often made clear his own allegiance. ’ It now remained for the Administration to be equally firm in i ejecting the distortions of Senator McCarthy in individual instances.