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...chief planer of the foreign-policy plank was John Foster Dulles, who had begun the task more than two months ago. He talked foreign policy with Dwight Eisenhower in France last May, and returned to the U.S. ready to come out for Ike. But about that time, Bob Taft called to say that he had read Dulles' foreign-policy views in LIFE and generally agreed with them. Dulles and the Eisenhower forces decided that he should stay publicly neutral to work out a foreign-policy plank that would avoid a party split on that issue. Said Dulles, just before...
When both Taft and Ike agreed that he should draft the plank, Dulles went to work. A week before the convention began, he arrived in Chicago with a 1,000-word document. Last week, after Dulles had shuttled between the opposing camps, he had a plank which both sides approved with comparatively minor reservations. Millikin's resolutions committee edited it (mostly to put in such barbs as "betrayed," "flouted" and "tragic blunders" when referring to the Truman Administration's foreign policy...
Foreign Policy. In its final form, the plank charged that Democratic administrations had lost the peace, traded away victory at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam, retreated before Russian encroachment in Europe, betrayed China to Communism and bungled into the Korean...
Looking forward to a positive Republican policy, the plank pledged: "We shall encourage and aid the development of collective security forces there [in Western Europe] as elsewhere, so as to end the Soviet power to intimidate directly or by satellites . . . In the balanced consideration of our problems, we shall end neglect of the Far East, which Stalin has long identified as the road to victory over the West . . .* We shall support the United Nations . . . We shall not try to buy good will. We shall earn it by sound, constructive, self-respecting policies and actions...
John Foster Dulles had produced a realistic, knowing, crusading plank...