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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1946, Page 7

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uim and bbitam REPUBLICANS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS WASHINGTON EXPECTATIONS [N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.] (Rec. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 2. Two interesting suggestions about the future course of British and American foreign! policy emerged in London during the week-en’d. The Washington correspondent of the Sunday Times reports that Mi’. Vandenberg, who will be chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate when the Republican Party takes over control in January, will shortly make an important speech in which he will clarify Republican intentions in relation to the declared American foreign policy laid down by the Secretary for State (Mr. J. F. Byrnes). . It is expected in Washington that far from seeking to curtail American collaboration with Britain Mr. Vandenberg will urge a considerable extension of co-operation and suggest that Britain and America could work together with advantage in dealing with foreign relations and problems in the South Americas and the JPcicific* It is even suggested that Mr. Vandenberg will favour American cooperation with Britain in Palestine. In Britain the Glasgow Heralds diplomatic correspondent suggests that the recent revolt of Labour back-benchers has impressed upon Whitehall the necessity for unifying and strengthening the British Commonwealth foreign policy so that the •British nations, as a body, may exert the influence to which they are entitled. He points out that only a Power at least equal in strength to either Russia or America can hope to act successfully as a mediator between them, and emphasises that the real strength of the British Peoples lies in speaking with one voice and not with several. The “rebels” talked as though only the United Kingdom and a few dependencies were involved in Bntisn foreign policy, and so overlooke what should be the basic strengtth the Commonwealth. He there are signs that Whitehall is rea - sine the necessity for emphasising British strength and that the imm dinte effect of this will be renewed efforts to preserve the unity of the Commonwealth in the discussions with the Indian delegates at present in London.