SAVAGE BLAST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21997, 15 April 1946, Page 3

SAVAGE BLAST

TRUMANTS POLICY REPUBLICANS HIT HARD CONFUSION ALLEGED (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 14. The Republican Party National Committee’s appraisal of the. first year of President Truman's Administration, alleges the President succeeded only in spreading and compounding confusion in handling foreign, and domestic affairs and the organisation of his own Administration. The report, which is described as the most savage blast ever directed against President Truman, uses the words confused. confusing, and confusion 56 times in its 4500 words. President Truman is accused of, first, fostering misunderstanding with Russia: secondly, approving of an incrcdiblv stupid policy towards Argentina: thirdly, paying only lip service to the United Nations; fourthly, permitting the Council of Foreign Ministers to degenerate into a farce; fifthly, falling short of American commitments for foreign relief, thus dooming millions to starvation: sixthly, deliberately practising secret diplomacy: seventhly, ignoring pledges to Poland, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia. Turning to the domestic field, the report declares under President Truman national affairs were in a perpetual crisis and alleges that the President “had chosen the leftward path of radical cxDerimentation” at the price of alienating members of Congress, both Democratic and Republican, who were indifferent to the pressure of the C. 1.0. political arPon committee.