FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S. UNDER ATTACK

Wanganui Chronicle, 6 November 1950, Page 5

FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S. UNDER ATTACK

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (Recd. 7 pm). —The Republican, Mr Harold Strassen, tonight charged that American troops were now suffering their highest casualties of the Korean war because President Truman and the Government “coddled” the Chinese Communists.

Broadcasting a reply to President Truman’s election speech, Mr Strassen declared: “It has been five years of coddling the Chinese Communists, undermining General MacArthur, snubbing friendly freedom-loving Asiatics and of appeasing the arch-Communist Maotsetung.”

He demanded that Mr Truman should take General MacArthur’s advice on China, Formosa and IndoChina, which were three future trouble spots, Mr Strassen said. News of the sudden reverses in Korea was “many times more grim than the shocking attempt to assassinate the President. He asserted that 100,000 Chinese Communists had entered the Korean fighting. American casualties this week had been higher than in any week since the war started.

“I solemnly charge this as the direct and terrible result of five years’ building up of the Chinese Communist strength through the blind, blubbering, bewildering American Asiatic policy.’’ Mr Stressen alleged that the, Truman Administration was “weak, confused and spy-riddled.” He added: “This, more than anything else, accounts fofr the tragic of the bright hopes ol peace for which so many men fought and so many men died in World War ll.’’ Mr Strassen, who unsuccessfully sought Republican nomination for the Presidency In 1948, is president of th University of Pennsylvania.