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THE NEW REPUBLIC seo Yone ae PL RGOATON CONTARED afi ere UNSLASSFIED Text of address on BATESZeZes_pysy Gta SS Te — Bal ICet! FOREIGR POLICY Yenry AF w e, Editor of the New Republic over the coast to coast network of the National Broadcasting to. ; — 6:15 to 6:30 P.M., Thursday evening, Parch 13, #947 » Yesterday March 12, 1947, marked a turning point in ° ay ean history. ‘Fellow Americans, it is 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 disaste r. Yesterday President Truman, in the name of democracy and humanitarlenism, proposed @ military lend-lease program. Re proposed a loan of $400 million to Greece and Turkey as a down payment on an unlimited expenditure aimed et onposing carmunist expansion. He proposed, In effect, that America police Russia's every border. There is no regime too reactionery for us provided it ; stands in Russta's expansionist path.. There 1s no country too remote to serve as the scene of a wa } t * contest which my widen until 1t becomes a world \ war. Cc. \. R ¥, President Truman calls for action to combat a ertsis, What is this crtsis that neceesi- “tates Truman going te Capitol Hl1l1 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 seys that the people of Greece am. homeless, hungry ana ravaged by the losses of war. We all know this. It 1s not only the Greek aoe who are suffering from the war. It 1s the peoples of all Europe, of Russia, of China and of many igs sh 1. an ? / rs, fos americans agree with President Truman that, we must aid INDEX. BRopie besidgphan We. roma JUN LO 1947 Americans ask If aid to the people of the world 1s | our objective, why did the President and the Congress allow the United Nations Relief and Rebabil tation Administration to die? Why are we doing nothing to help the million displaced persons without homes in Europe? Why are we speaking x ly we million when the need is far greater? Why is $150 mill fon of those $400 million to —