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Griffin Daily News
‘‘CAPTURED” drifting downstream, this dragon boat
is examined by Marine Ist Lt. Rolland A. Schmitten of
Cashmere, Wash., a security officer stationed in Viet
nam. When it was learned the boat was part of a reli
gious ceremony honoring departed ancestors, it was
returned to the river and relaunched.
BRUCE BIOBSAT
Nixon Will Dump Bliss;
Ear Deaf to Grumbling
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
„ , . . PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (NEA)
By early spring of 1969, Republican National Chairman
Ray Bliss will have been replaced by a Nixon-picked suc
cessor , despite broad party leader sentiment revealed here
for his retention.
Republican governors gathered here for their semian
nual conference were nearly universal in their praise of
Bliss as a skillful technician and organizer. Reports indi
cate that a sizable number of national committeemen,
some of them present, feel the same way.
But the evidence Is that President-elect Richard Nixon is
absolutely unswayed by these expressions of support for
Bliss and intends to have a chairman of his own choosing
as soon as it is practicable to make the change.
Between the election and this conference, Nixon had not
spoken one word to Bliss about his future, and it is not
clear when he will. Bliss, meantime, has summoned the
GOP National Committee to a meeting in Washington Jan.
17, just three days before Nixon’s inauguration. It seems
unlikely that the proposed change in the chairmanship will
occur that early. It is a recognized prerogative of a presi
dent to have his own chairman.
As this reporter has stated in earlier postelection ac
counts. Nixon is about to embark on perhaps the most am
bitious party-rebuilding effort ever undertaken by a
modern-day president.
He clearly was not impressed by 1968 results which
Drought the Republicans only four additional congressmen,
five added senators and a pickup of 50-odd state legisla
tors. Nor is he pleased that national opinion polls con
sistently show American voters indicating Democratic
rather than Republican party identification by margins of
12 to 15 per cent.
BUss X old newsmen here that it is extremely difficult to
hft the Republican end of that ratio by even a point or two.
The Nixon people simply do not believe it and regard this
as the kind of negative thinking which has handicapped the
GOP in its long fight to regain majority party status in the
nation.
Nixon, his aides say, will not be content until the party
percentages favor the Republicans, until the GOP can win
Congress by comfortable margins and until the party can
elect a president on its own strengths rather than the
Democrats’ weaknesses.
Nixon and his chief White House political assistant, John
Sears, will manage this restoration effort, though plans
also call for installing a new political technician at execu
tive-director level in the National Committee hierarchy.
argument from governors and others
that the new President and the governors themselves give
the Party all the policy spokesmen it will need, Nixon is
sticking by his plan to name a national chairman who will
function heavily as a center-stage figure articulate and at
tractive enough to add important luster to the GOP.
RAY CROMLEY
©Radical Shift in Foreign
Policy Goals Needed Now
/ By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The time is ripe for a radical change in U.S. foreign
policy.
The tools are available. The techniques are known. The
payoffs would be great.
Today foreign policy is largely based on economic and
military aid.
But most U.S. aid should be political. It should aim at
helping countries and people at their request, in developing
sound representative political institutions ol their choosing.
With sound institutions, rapid economic development is
possible. Without them, economic development may be
ragged and uncertain, regardless of how much economic
aid the United States pours in.
With strong political institutions, a weakly armed coun
try can make war very costly (perhaps prohibitively
costly) for a would-be invader.
With a limited amount of international backing, a politi
cally sound country can force even a strong, ruthless gov
ernment to think a long time before invading.
The United States need only look to its own past suc
cesses and failures to realize the truth of these theories.
The United States (and certain allies) won World War II
after the shooting stopped with our highly successful po
litical aid in Japan and West Germany. Partly as a result
of our efforts, our understanding and our encouragement,
these two countries developed stable, self-governing politi
cal systems which today are the basis of their economic
strength and their military potential.
That is, we helped build countries in which the average
man has a say and a stake in his government.
We “lost” World War I against Germany, though we won
the shooting war, because we did not apply this principle
of political aid.
We are failing to win thus far in South Vietnam because
we have forgotten this principle which we applied so effec
tively after World War 11. We have done far less than we
could do to help the South Vietnamese develop their politi
cal institutions.
This is not to say that we should attempt to get Vietnam
or any other country to ape the U.S. form of government.
We would then have other puppets or rebels, neither of
which would represent success.
We did not force Japan or Germany into our mold after
World War 11. Neither is a pale imitation of the United
States.
The Japanese and the West Germans have developed
their own institutions. They have taken some ideas from
us, as we took some concepts from Europe in our develop
ment. But the Japanese and West Germans have modified
what they have taken and adapted what they have bor
rowed to their own historical backgrounds and their own
objectives.
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