POST-WAR POLICY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 233, 2 October 1943, Page 5

POST-WAR POLICY

U.S. SENATE CAUTIOUS Reed. 6 p.m. Washington, Sept, 30. A sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has decided to pigeonhole the Fulibright resolution on America’s peace policy. A Senate committee will draft its own resolution on post-war foreign policy With the backing of the chairman, Senator Tom Connally, a strong move had developed within the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to delay action on declarations of post-war foreign policy till the views of America’s chief allies had been sounded.

Senator Connally’s view that the committee ought to proceed cautiously in spite of the House’s overwhelming approval of the Fulbright resolution was shared by a number of leading Senators. Some thought that the committee ought to await the outcome of the Moscow conference, and that no statement of American intentions ought to be made till after Britain and Russia had made their postwar aims clearer.

The American House of Representatives on September 21, by 300 votes to 29, approved Representative Fulbright’s resolution that “Congress hereby expresses itself as favouring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world, and as favouring participation by the United States in it through its constitutional processes.”

The Associated Press described the resolution as a historic stand on foreign policy.