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...Some of Mr. Republican's ablest party colleagues also rose to dispute the Taft and Hoover logic. "It is hard to understand how anyone can contend that the development of a defensive holding force in Europe . . . could look like aggression to such realistic men as the rulers of the Kremlin," said Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "We have . . . to get the arrow point from West to East, not from East to West...
...losing it. Bridges called on the U.S. to recognize that it is in a state of war with Russia without formally declaring its existence. Except for his all-out attack on the Administration and the wavering conduct of its foreign policy, it was the polar opposite to the Hoover-Taft position. His specific proposals: a break of diplomatic relations with Russia and her Communist satellites; a U.S.-supported invasion of the Chinese mainland by Chiang Kaishek; a sea and air war on the Chinese Reds by U.S. forces; full-scale industrial mobilization and round-the-clock production...
...Gibraltar Policy. Herbert Hoover would pull out of Korea, send no more U.S. forces overseas except to a limited cordon of Pacific and Atlantic bases, build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of Western Civilization" and wait the Russians out. Senator Taft would include several more bases than Hoover (e.g., North Africa, perhaps Malaya and Spain), and honor the U.S. commitment to fight if a North Atlantic ally is attacked. But he would fight by sea and air, not on land...
...About Europe? Point by point, Douglas met the Hoover-Taft thesis. Sea and air power are not enough to defend Europe, he declared. "The experience of World War II and the experience of Korea have surely taught us that air attacks will not stop land armies . . . Infantry and artillery are still needed, as Korea has shown, and all the scientific push buttons and military gadgets have not made them obsolete...
...frankly face the fact that the allied armies which are to be raised under the Brussels agreement may be overpowered and defeated. We may be driven into the sea. Our losses may be heavy. No one can take this possibility lightly . . . But what Senator Taft and Mr. Hoover seem to insist upon is that we should not use land troops on the Continent unless we are certain to win ... If we only try to resist the Communists when it is a sure thing that we will win, the Communists will conquer the world...