PARTY OPINIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 16

PARTY OPINIONS

CRITICAL REPUBLICAN "HIGH-SOUNDING WORDS" NO REAL FOREIGN POLICY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 18, 7.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 18 While it is confidently expected Mr. Hull will be taken to task by the extreme isolationists in Congress for his open avowal in favour of parallel action, the first expressions of opinion were chiefly on party lines, since it is generally agreed he only expressed the traditional aspects of American foreign policy. The opposition to Mr. Hull was perhaps best put by Mr. Hamilton Fish (Republican) : "Tho speech was filled with high-sounding generalities, but it only proves the Administration lias no foreign policy and is drifting toward super-armament and war without any programme to restore tho peaceful relations of tho world. Tho truth is that Mr. Hull is an internationalist and believes in using force and coercion, to punish aggressor nations, and that is exactly what he means when he speaks of parallel action with nations whose objectives coincide with those of America." The Democratic viewpoint, but nevertheless a safely non-committal one, was expressed by Senator Pope: "Mr. Hull is exactly right. An isolationist policy means only world chaos. An enlightened policy of co-operation among nations is the only way to peace."