ACHESON REVAMPS FAR EASTERN POLICY
STOUT, JONATHAN
Washington and the Nation Acheson Revamps Far Eastern Policy By Jonathan Stout WASHINGTON. D. C. THE FAR EAST, not Europe, is now the-main theatre of the "cold war." That's the...
...The Housing Bill was on the floor, and Chairman Brent Spence, Kentucky Democrat, of the House Banking Committee, was in command of the proceedings...
...That was how he introduced Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr...
...The story behind this strategy begins with the passage by the 80th Congress of the Hope-Aiken Act of 1948, which embodied the Republican farm program...
...Be sure to include your old address as well as your new one In reIiorting a change...
...Alio tend the nclusive dates of your stay at your summer address so that wo can resume the permanent mailing address promptly upon your return...
...The Aiken part of the Act picks up at the moment where the wartime price supports end, Dec...
...The difference between what the consumer pays and what is "parity" will then be made up by government subsidy...
...And even those are on a flexible scale ranging from 90 per cent of parity down to 60 per cent...
...At the same time, the Brannan plan allows farm products to move to market instead of government granaries and warehouses and to find their natural market price...
...As young Roosevelt finished his maiden speech, the Democratic side of the House rang with applause...
...As a result, many Republican farm state legislators are now themselves opposed to the Aiken part of the Act...
...The Brannan plan offers the farmer support prices at 100 per cent of parity, and includes support for perishable products, which are left out of the Aiken formula...
...This viewpoint becomes important because insider* now report Secretary of State Acheson is working on a new China policy statement—a departure from previous American policy toward China, This new statement is not expected to be a drastic departure from the disastrous policy of former Secretary Marshall, partly because of a reluctance to offer a public repudiation of the General, partly because it is now loo late to go back to the beginning and start all over again...
...And his resonant voice used words and phrases that brought back memories of his famous father...
...Following the recent Democratic conference in Des Moines, where Administration leaders brought farm and labor leaders together in an ellort to effect a united front, President Truman's lieutenants are now planning to push part of the new Brannan farm program through the present session of Congress before it adjourns for the summer...
...It is now generally agreed that it was the Aiken part of the Act which swung most of the farm states to Truman last November...
...is possible...
...This means consumers will be able to buy farm products at lower prices than have prevailed since 1942...
...In my limited experience, I can remember that almost every piece of • legislation in recent years which has sought to serve the interests of the people instead1 of the interests of the few, has always been lagged by the Same old gang as socialistic, "I can assure you'that In all my visits to refugee camps in the Middle East and Western Europe, I have ' vntver witnessed such inhuman sanitary conditions as exist in the slums within 20 miles of this nation's capital...
...His illustrious father was for all measures for humanity...
...With China practically In the bag, this school of thought maintains, the Kremlin was able to let up its propaganda pressure on Europe and entertain the West with the fond hope that a new modus Vivendi with the U.S.S.R...
...Suddenly he announced: "I'll not ask how the next speaker stands on this bill...
...The Hope part of the Act continued, with some modifications, the wartime price supports for farm products until the close of 1949...
...A DRAMATIC MOMENT in the House of Representatves last week sent an electric thrill through the packed galleries and the crowded floor—the electric thrill in the magic name of Roosevelt...
...The Hope-Aiken Act is in reality two separate measures tied together...
...It gives me great pleasure to extend five minutes to the gentleman from New York...
...Administration leaders feel sure that, given a taste of the benefits of the Brannan-program, the farmers will cooperate in returning a liberal Democratic majority to Congress in the 1950 elections...
...31, 1949, and continues supports only for certain commodities...
...The parity formula was devised several years ago theoretically to equalize the purchasing power of farmers with that of industrial workers...
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...Bui the new policy statement wilR in effect, be the first step in the eventual complete reversal of what American policy on China has been up to now...
...That's the preponderant view of State Depart-, ment and embassy diplomats...
...continuous delivery of your weekly copies of The New Leader, be sure to send us your temporary summer address at least three weeks In advance of your vacation...
...WASHINGTON'S EARLY SUMMER heat has not slowed the Administration's political strategy for the 1950 campaign...
...Like his father, young Roosevelt has a loft slur to his "R's" as he speaks, and like his father he read most of his speech, raising his head to look at the members for emphasis...
...The House applauded the maiden speech of the new Congressman from New York when he said: "The slums of America are breeding spots of communism, and In passing this legslation we will be striking a blow against communism and for our free enterprise system and our American democracy...
Vol. 32 • July 1949 • No. 27
