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Weekend speeches by two leading Republicans clarified the alternative to the Administration's foreign policy they are offering. The specific programs outlined by Herbert Hoover and Senator Taft differ in detail, but agree in their estimate of Russian expansion and their critique of Truman's Korean policy. And as developed last weekend, their arguments showed a glaring self-contradiction...
...Both Hoover and Taft claim that the Administration has greatly overestimated the threat of Russian expansion. Consequently, Hoover feels that we should withdraw American troops from Europe--leaving the Europeans to build up what ground forces they care to. Taft echoes this view as shown by his consistent voting record against aid to Western Europe since 1948, against the Atlantic Defense Pact, against appropriations to the Voice of America, and his attack on the Point Four Program. In view of the Senator's disastrous underestimation of the German and Japanese intentions in 1940 one might question his present evaluation...
...political program, the Taft-Hoover position has the advantages of contradiction; its soothing view of Russian expansion implies welcome cuts in our expenditure for foreign aid. At the same time it explains any actual Russian expansion in terms of someone else's failure to act. But as a foreign policy, it dissolves into a mixture of self-contradiction and political opportunism...
Another Republican challenge to debate came from New York's Governor Thomas Dewey. Speaking from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria before the National Industrial Conference Board, Dewey confined himself generally to U.S. Far Eastern policy. Unlike Hoover, he urged no shrinkage but an extension of American commitment in foreign policy...
Call to the Jungles. The son of a Glens Falls, N.Y. lawyer, Patterson was educated at Union College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School, organized his own law firm in Manhattan in 1922. In 1930, President Hoover made him a district court judge; he presided with the stern sense of duty of his Yankee forebears. President Roosevelt promoted him to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in 1939. Prior to World War II Judge Patterson fought the unpopular fight for a military-conscription law, and personally enrolled in an officers' refresher course at Plattsburg, N.Y. There...