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91 on general reaction to Truman proposal.
51 endorse plan as greater influence toward peace than Monroe Doctrine;
urge crystallization of views in Congress so as to reach agreement by
Mar. 31; suggest stop-gap loan by RFC if Congress fails to make deadline;
want UN kept informed; see no need for iron curtain around our plans.
14 approve plan in principle but have misgivings as to scope and degree of
aid; feel program should be one Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln could
have understood and approved.
20 are strongly opposed; consider proposal "fantastic beyond reason" and
far more perilous than Hitler's mailed fist; feel our Monroe Doctrine for
whole world makes tax reduction, budget balancing and prewar spending an
"iridescent dream"; score undercover planning for proposal.
5 on Dewey's endorsement of program.
2 praise his courage and non-partisanship. (Watertown, N.Y., Times,
3/24; Jamestown, N.Y., Post-Journal, 3/24)
3 call him past master of hypocrisy and New Deal "me too" man; see
him seeking 1948 favor. (NY Daily Worker, 3/25; Chicago Tribune,
3/27; Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser, 3/29)
1 accuses the President of taking anti-Moscow stand in effort to swipe
from GOP an emotionally-appealing issue for the 1948 campaign. (Erie,
Pa., Dispatch, 3/26)
62 on secret agreements and negotiations.
57 welcome release by State Department of heretofore secret documents but
feel, however, that little startlingly new has been disclosed beyond
facts and speculation already widely publicized; many are certain other
and more compromising documents are being withheld; demand raising of
our own iron curtain so Congress will have full facts for decision which
must be made soon.
5 believe position of the President and State Department has been strengthened
instead of weakened by release of papers; feel Congress now is in position
to act wisely.
151 on UN phases of situation.
43 find little choice except to by-pass UN, because world group is not yet
equipped financially or militarily to take required action; see probable
Russian veto as insurmountable obstacle; hope UN may soon be organized
and implemented to fulfill its destined role as peace maker and peace keeper;
some feel we are not actually by-passing UN but are merely taking over
Britain's task in Greece.
8 charge the President with scuttling the UN Charter; believe he and his
advisors miscalculated mood of the country; would amend Charter before
taking independent action with great risk of precipitating world war.
7 praise the President's Mar. 25 statement reaffirming faith in UN; call
it a sincere effort to save UN; say his Greco-Turk plan will strengthen
rather than weaken world organization.
9 accept Trygve Lie's Mar. 26 speech as rebuke to President Truman and an
intimation UN could handle Greco-Turk problem if it were not by-passed;
note Lie has yet to point accusing finger at Russia or any of her
satellites. (5 of 9 are from Scripps-Howard chain, 3/27)
2 regard as most appropriate and sensible the Vandenberg-Connally preamble
to Greek-Turkey aid bill which explains our unilateral action outside
UN; call it essential to world understanding of true conditions.
RATIONAL
AND
-2-
SERVICE"
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