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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D13, folder \"Michigan Bar Association, Junior\nBar Section, September 27, 1950\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and\nSpeech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nJanim Bar section J Muchigm Bar axxn\nWednesday, September 27th 19 ?\nMichigan citizens should be rightfully proud of Senator\nArthur H. Vandenberg, the foremost statemen in the United States\nnow and for the last two decades. As a member of the minority party\nhe, more than anyone else, vas responsible for the success of bi-\nparticanship in foreign affairs. Re cerried his full part in formu-\nlating and implementing the creation and support of the United\nNations, the European Recovery Program and our national policy in\nthe Western Hemisphere. All of Michigan, in fact the entire world,\nexcepting perhaps Stalin and his cohorts, at this noment regret his\npresent 111 health and wish him a speedy and complete recevery.\nThere have been some critics of a bipartisanship in foreign\npolicy. Actually where a sincere bipartises offort has been made\nour foreign policy has been successful. Substantial progress has\nbeen made in Europe under the able guidance and leadership of Mr.\nPaul O. Hoffman. Despite Europe's economic and military post var\nweaknesses Communion has been on the defensive. The best evidence\nof the success of foreign policy bipartisanship se the fact that\nCommunists did not strike in Europe but in Asia where biparticanship\nhas never existed.\nSome may contend that bipartisanship has directed our Far\nSastern foreign policy. To remove any doubt in this regard the fol-\nloving quotations from speeches by Senator Vandenborg should be a part\nof the record.\non March 18, 1947 Senator Vandenberg, then Chairman of the\nCommittee on Foreign Relations said: \"This bigartisan foreign policy\nFORSTON been confined within relatively narrow limits. It has applied to\n&\nGERALD\nthe United Nations. It has applied to peace treaties in Europe. It\n-1-\nDigitized from Box D13 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nhas applied to nothing else. I have had nothing to do, for example,\nwith China policies or pan-American policies except within the United\nNations, and nt times I have been entiefied with neither.\non February 10, 1949 Mr. Vandenberg said: \"It 414 not\napply to everything - for example, not to Polestine OF China.\"\nIt 10 regrettable that bipartisanship vod not tried in\nthe Far East. If such a policy hed been given a chance it 10 quite\nlikely that success against Communism instead of feilure would have\nbeen the result in that part of the world.\nThe importance of Asia cannot be underestim ted in the\ntitanic struggle between Communism and those who believe in freedom\nand liberty. Only Amia has great undeveloped natural resources and\ngreat undeveloped human resources. More than half the people of the\nworld live in Asia. which way are they to go? To Russia or to the\nUnited States. That 10 likely to be the decisive question of this\ncentury.\nAt the end of World War II the Soviets had approximately\n200 million people under their control. Nov, with their estellites\nin Europe, and what they have seized in Anto, the Rede dominate almost\nwestern\n800 million. Ve of the free/world are almost 800 million people. The\ntwo roughly balance. The seales can be tipped by the 700 million\npeople on the periphery of China, what happens to Korea, Japan,\nFormona, the Philippines, Indonesia, Indochina, Stem, Malaya, Burne,\nIndia, Pakestan and even Iron will decide the rate of our way of life.\nSome foreign policy makers contend that the Unit ed States\ncould write off China with her 400 million people and then build up\n-2-\nGERALD FORD MARARI\nthe countries around her. That policy, as recent experiences have\nindicated, is not sound. China in like & giant hand end the surround-\ning countries like the outstretched fingers, or to pat it another\nway, China 10 like the hub of a wheel with the surrounding countries\nthe spokes in the wheel. What happens in the hub controls the\nspokes and the fate of the hand determines fate of the fingers.\nUnfortunately ve have lost China to Communists and 1/0 are\nnow fighting in the Korea finger. If the United Nations forees puch\nthe North Korean forces to the 38th parallel, and I am certain that\nwill be the case, and even If ve move the Communists beek to the\nManchurian border, they can move into that name finger again, as soon\nB.G our attention 10 turned elsewhere into other fingers such no Indo-\nChina, the Philippines OF Burna. The problem 1a simply China. The\nRede can bleed un to death with China under Kremlin domination.\nThe record shows that Communist leaders have always under-\nstood the importance of China. In 1937. Chow En-lai, now Prime Minister\nof the Communist regine in China, wrote Earl Browder, then head of\nthe Communist Party in the United States, the following:\n\"Conrade, do you still remember the Chinese comrades\nwho worked with you in China 10 years ago?\"\nEarl Browder vas in China in 1927 to help the Rede seize complete\ncontrol of that country but Chian Eai-sek and his believers in a free\nand independent China withstood the Communist forces.\nIn the name year, Earl Browder received A letter from Hao\nTee-tung, now President of the Communist regine in Peking. The follow-\ning sentencein that letter in important in understanding overado Krenlin\nstrategy\n-3-\nGERALD\nLIBRARY\n\"We feel that when ve achieve victory (in china), this\nvistory will be of considerable help to the struggle of the American\npeople fouliberation.\"\nOther evidence 10 likevise available. In the Daily Worker\nfor December 2, 1945, Villiam 9. Foster, head of the Communist Party\nin this country, said:\n\"On the international scale, the key tack, ae emphasized\nin Compade Dennie' report, in to stop American intervention\nin China.\"\nThe Krealin to date has boen successful in achieving victory in\nChina. The United States after World Var II lost its golden oppor-\ntunity to set up & government in China that would be independent of\nthe Soriets. Until such #: goverment in in control in China the\nUnited States and her allies will never be secure from the imperial-\n1st designs of the U.S.S.R. Let's not forget one fact, which 10\nall too clear, that Communists in Asia are Communists and not\nsimple agrarian reformers.\nIn conclusion, there are several points which should be\nbrought out. First, in both world were we ourselves helped bring\non the trouble by putting expediency shead of principle. In the\nthirties we helped the aggressor, Japan, instead of the victin,\nChina. In the forties we bribed Russia by giving her China's terri-\ntory and then appeased Communism in China while denouncing those\nwho were resisting it.\nSecond, twice in one decade the United States made the\nsame mistake of imagining that what happened in Europe vae more\nlikely to get us into var than what happened in Asia.\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\natto\nThe United States has always been secure from var in the\nPacific as long as Japan had a free China, friendly to America, in\nthe west. Our nation can be free from Soviet aggression if a free\nChina exists on the mainland of Loin. Our Pacific policy must be\ntailored to rit this IR ttern and that means our State Department\nshould not be deluded by the present Chinese Reda who are Communists\nand under the complete domination of the Kremlin.\nFORD & LIBRARY GERALD\n-5-"
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