Who Killed Cock Robin?

If dead it was, who killed the bipartisan foreign policy? Administration spokesmen said the Republicans had done it--with their slings and arrows. Last week New York's Irving Ives rose in the Senate to point a Republican finger in the opposite direction.

His remarks were leveled at his New York colleague, Democrat Herbert Lehman, who had recently demanded that the Republicans divorce themselves from politics in foreign affairs. Ives noted that the demise of bipartisanship was largely due to the absence of two Republicans who had originally shown the way. One was Arthur Vandenberg, who was sick. The other was John Foster Dulles, who had been beaten for election last year by Herbert Lehman.

Said Ives: "Perhaps the example of attack which was set in that New York campaign was the real forerunner of the present controversy over Secretary Acheson."

Dulles, Ives recalled, had been "the victim of innuendo and misrepresentation." His competence had been questioned by Lehman, his international experience attacked by the Democratic organization (in newspaper ads) as "a myth." Sentences from Dulles' writings were taken out of context "in an effort to represent that his major loyalty was to the German I. G. Farben ... It was alleged that the Nazis were--and are--his clients . . . that he had looked with favor upon the rape of Czechoslovakia and that he favored the aggressive wars of the Axis. Attempt was made to identify him with the German-American Bund . . ."

This political attack was made, Ives pointed out, in the face of Dulles' record in foreign affairs as a willing and tireless. aid of Administration diplomacy--a record which had received the praise of Cordell Hull, George Marshall, James Byrnes, Dean Acheson, Harry Truman.

"I foresaw during that campaign," said Irving Ives, "that the deliberate partisan effort to injure Mr. Dulles' reputation . . . was striking a dangerous blow at the cause of bipartisanship ... I am constrained to observe that those who sow the wind should not be surprised if they sometimes reap the whirlwind."

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