Keynote for Victory

To Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, the times were perilously similar to those 100 years ago when the Republican Party met in Chicago and nominated a man who said the nation could not exist half slave and half free. In 1960, said Keynoter Judd to this week's Republican Convention, the gravest issue is once again human slavery--"this time not men enslaved by other men but, far more complex and dangerous, masses of men enslaved by governments." And since Americans know "deep down in our hearts" that the whole world cannot long endure half slave and half free, the nation's purpose in the 19605 must be to continue to strengthen freedom at home and weaken the slavemasters abroad. Judd's message: "We must win this cold war."

Foreign Affairs. Which party is best prepared to lead the U.S. to victory? In answer, Judd, who has seen emergent Communism first hand as a longtime medical missionary in China, launched a sharp campaign polemic against the records of "two American Presidents [Roosevelt and Truman] who got along famously with the Communists--as long as they gave in to them." Said he: "It wasn't the Republicans who at Teheran, against the urgent advice of Mr. Churchill, agreed to give the Russians a free hand in the Balkans, who secretly divided Poland and gave half of it to the Soviet Union. It wasn't a Republican Administration that agreed to the Communist takeover of 100 million free people in Europe, that gave the Soviet Union East Germany and left West Berlin cut off from the rest of the free world, that divided Korea and gave control of North Korea to the Communists. It wasn't under the Republicans that 600 million people disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. It was not this Administration that indulged in the illusion that Communists in China are democratic agrarian reformers."

What, on the other hand, had the Eisenhower Administration done?

"We brought to an end the fighting in the Korean war, which the Truman

Administration would not win and could not stop [and] prevented half a dozen other threats from developing into war--Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Formosa, Suez, Lebanon, Quemoy, West Berlin." At the same time, the Administration has built up "gigantic" but "balanced" military strength around the world, while closing the missile gap that it inherited from the Democrats. "The Eisenhower Administration today is putting 40 times more into [long-range] missiles each month than the previous Administration did in eight years." The Economy. At home, the Administration has spread the benefits of eco nomic prosperity "not by Government orders, edicts or controls" but by promoting hands-off free enterprise, which "you know works better than those of little faith in the American people give it cred it for." Items: PRICES. Rose "48% in the seven Tru man years," 11% during the Eisenhower years.

JOBS. "There were 61 million jobs when we took over in 1953. There are 68 million jobs tonight." WAGES. "Up 35% in these seven years; real wages, up 20%." TAXES. "We gave the American people the biggest single tax cut in their history [$7.4 billion in 1954]--and at the same time expanded the benefits to people: more social security [extended to cover an additional 7,500,000], more for highways, hospitals, health, housing. When before did any government ever take less from the people in taxes and give them more in return?" With economic strength at home and political firmness abroad, said Judd, the U.S. has developed a sound strategy for holding its own in the cold war. "But we cannot hope to win in the end just by holding. We must develop a strategy for victory worthy of this most terrible testing in our nation's life." To Republican Judd, the choice in November was clear: "The man who will be nominated in this convention as our candidate will be incomparably the best qualified to deal with the relentless cold war, which we have tried our best to avoid, but which we now have no choice except to win."

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