National Affairs: Our First Consideration

In 2½ hours one afternoon last week, Robert A. Taft, cool, confident and precise as a mathematics teacher, laid before Congress the cause of those who want to systematize and retrench the U.S.'s vacillating world policy. He came before the Senate as a man who had long spoken as "Mr. Republican" on domestic policy, but it was not in that role that he spoke on foreign policy. In foreign affairs no one could speak for more than a segment of either sorely divided party.

Taft began with a ringing denunciation of the Administration's whole conduct of world affairs since Teheran and Yalta....

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