If words mean what they say, the Republican Party platform, hammered together by a businesslike committee headed by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., assured the world that the U.S. would not retreat into isolationism or abdicate its leadership for peace.
The platform unequivocally promised continuation of the bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans would "encourage" unity in western Europe; they believed in "collective security against aggression"; they would support U.N.; they "welcomed Israel into the family of nations"; they would "cherish" friendship with China; and "relentlessly pursue our aims for the universal limitation and control of arms and implements of war on a...
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