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Closeting himself with Adviser Dulles, Dewey sat far into the night discussing foreign affairs. Next day, Dewey briskly separated the bipartisan meat from the partisan gristle. The bipartisan policy, said Dewey, applied only to participation in U.N. and ERP which, as enacted, "largely expressed the views of Republican leaders." But in other fields of foreign affairs, "there has been no consultation at all with the Republican leadership." These fields, said Dewey, included the Greek-Turkish policy, the Potsdam agreements, Palestine, and "the entire China policy, or lack of one." Foreign policy, he made clear, was going to be a major...
...bipartisan blueprint for U.S. security, submitted by Senator Vandenberg to the Foreign Relations Committee, stipulated all but one of the following: 1. The U.S. should base its policy on the U.N. as now constituted...
General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...platform unequivocally promised continuation of the bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans would "encourage" unity in western Europe; they believed in "collective security against aggression"; they would support U.N.; they "welcomed Israel into the family of nations"; they would "cherish" friendship with China; and "relentlessly pursue our aims for the universal limitation and control of arms and implements of war on a basis of reliable discipline against bad faith...
...foreign policy its record was distinguished: its decisions marked the end of 152 years of U.S. peacetime isolation. Though the Administration, using its constitutional prerogative, initiated policy, the Both Congress, led by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, forged the imposing tools by which the bipartisan foreign policy was put into effect...