When Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce made her famed "globaloney" speech last February, enemies of postwar planning seized on the word. Clare Luce complained that she had been misunderstood. Last week she spoke up again, this time on U.S. foreign policy.
Said Congresswoman Luce, in a speech in the House:
>The U.S. has no foreign policy. "Isolationists" wrongly believed that the U.S. needed no foreign policy. "Interventionists" were merely those who finally realized that the U.S. could not survive without Great Britain and therefore adopted Brit ish foreign policy.
>The U.S. must develop a "clear, honest, all-American foreign policy"— immediately.
> The first step should be a military alliance with the British Commonwealth. Said Republican Luce: " The British Empire is America's natural buffer state. . . . In the world scene, any scheme, however noble in concept, to maintain peace will in the last analysis be no better than the character and clarity of the relationships between the United States and the British Commonwealth. . . .
"The greatest of our principles . . . binds us together: namely, our mutual faith in government by the people for the people and of the people, and our determination to maintain it for ourselves, what ever else happens. . . ."
Back of the Hand. Developing this thesis, Freshman Luce took a bold slap at President Roosevelt. Said she: "Until 1937, Franklin Roosevelt was the world's outstanding isolationist. For years he was famed for his blithe indifference to the oneness of the world in every chancellery in Europe and Asia. His public approval, for example, of Munich is a matter of public record. . . .
"But after Munich the evil tidings out of Europe and Asia began to swamp the State Department. . . . Slowly, reluctantly, hesitantly, Franklin Roosevelt abandoned his isolation. . . .
"Insensibly he began to adopt another nation's foreign policy . . . that of our nearest and most friendly neighbor—Great Britain. . . . And Mr. Roosevelt had no foreign policy for America before Pearl Harbor—and he has no foreign policy for America now."
Few days later, having issued this challenge to statesmanship, Representative Luce keynoted a Republican convention at Appleton, Wis. Her speech was a model of partisan politics.