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vay of life I want( preserve to the future. | Rye Be BRD “Ne? Senator Tyfings hae charged that the positicn I hold faithfully .: reflecta the Communist Party Line. And he would have the Anerican people believe that he haa been defending and continues to defend Anerica's most vitel ine terests, principles and security, | . Well, Mr. President, I just cannot let thie challenge go unanevered, Senator Tydings hes presented and defended a position and « thesis which proves we are poles apert, at opposite extremes and the jesue he has raised ila, Who haga been playing the Communist Party Line, Senator Tydinga or. Senator Jenner? ‘ | I know of no better way of bringing thie issue to a head than by putting the facta on the table, naming names, citing chaptera and verse, | T em sure Senator Tydinga 1a far too clever to expect anyone to be fooled by hie flattery of my importance or influence in the United States Senate, I am only a freshman Senator who has perved 33 years in this pody. I am 4 member- of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Rules and Adninistration, a aod emal ral rity git hace ot t+h wAVe BLOoed With & a2 minority party. And what ie the position that I have consistently defended? I believe that the eruption of war in Korea is the final proof, thet this Administration's pre-Scviet propagendiate, both at home and abroed, have been jexding the Artrican people, for the past 18 years, from one lie to another; from one sell-out to another; frem one catastrophe to ancther; from one war to auother, tehind false slogans, falee panaceae, falee programe and false promises, J have conelstently sought to restore treditional American principles to our foreign policies, to repudiate the betrayals of the past and to guarantee against their repetition in the future, , T have consistently opposed Th ¢ ly opposed Bouandering of and manpower down the rat holes of Europe and Asia, in a determined effort to do everything within my power to keep America sound, strong and free. And I have continually raised my voice in warning againet the folly of -purauing e policy thet played éirectly into Stalin's hands by enabling hia to force America to spend herself inte bankruptcy. | . Certainly no one in their right minds could ever charge that for the pest 18 years this position of mine has represented anything put the minority . . - \ vidv. 2 : te ee eee a emer: + os ee eee ee, - ae 7°