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" gtands in Russia's expansionist path. ‘There is no country too remote to serve as the scene of a a Z aan ~~. ‘alee ~ tober Bled Of PFC ORANGE AL a TR AD HORE ONIN OY oe ; ‘ . Z 2c £ y 2 ~ il? one . THE NEW REPUBLIC Se re Retro TON CONTAINED ine) aE: in [eins PEC UNCLASSIFIED Text of address on BATES Ze/es" phe oce GSE MERICAM FOREIGR POLICY e, Editor of the New Republic over ‘the coast to coast network of the National Broadcastine Co. np §:15 to 6:3C P.M., Thursday evening, March 13, 1947 ee Yesterday March 12, 1947, marked a turning point in Amertcan history. Fellow Americans, tt 1s not a Greek crisis that we face, it is an American crisis, It is a crisis in the American spirit. That which I feared when I wrote President Truman last July has come upon us. Only the American people fully aroused and promptly acting can prevent disaster. Yesterday President Truman, in the name of democracy and humanitarfanism, proposed a military lend-lease program. He proposed a loan of $400 million to Greece and Turkey as a down payment on an unlimited expenditure aimed et opposing communist expansion. He proposed, in effect, that America police Russia's every border. ‘There is no regime too reactionary for us provided it contest which my widen until 1t becomes a world war. C. \ R. A President Truman calls for action to combat a erteis, What is this crisis that necess!- tates Truman going te Capitol H111 as though a Pearl Harbor had suddenly hit us? How many more of these Pearl Harbors will there be? How can they be foreseen? What will they cost? President Truman says that the people of Greece are: homeless, hungry and ravaged by the losses Of war. We all know this. It Is not only the re an who are suffering from the war. | LAD vss rss | It is the peoples of all Europe, of Russia, of China and of many ignd Se 2- )/ Fee S? Americans agree with President Triman that we must aid the BOD ce y pesidétawham we fought. ~-UR GG os Americans ask: If ald to the people of the world is our objective, why did the President and the Congress allow the United Nations Relief and Rehabllitation Administration to die? Why are we doing nothing to help the million displaced persons without homes in Europe? Why are we speaking y or only i million when the need is far greater? Why fe $150 million ofr y ose $400 millton to ROLE pe ~ more -