POLITICAL NOTES: Twin Planks?

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We continue to oppose the seating of Communist China in the United Nations, thus upholding international morality and keeping faith with the thousands of Amer ican youths who gave their lives fighting Communist aggression in Korea.

These words may become part of both the Republican and Democratic platforms if a bipartisan appeal from "The Commit tee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations" is successful. A letter sent to the organiza tion's members explains the drive: "If our allies are permitted to miscalculate, and vote admission of Red China to the U.N., such action could lead to the gravest con sequences . . . The conventions can prove to the world the universality and solid ity of the American people's opposition through the inclusion of identical planks in the platforms of both parties." Signers of the appeal came from oppo site political poles. Among them: Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and New Jersey's Republican Senator H. Alex ander Smith, Minnesota's Republican Rep resentative Walter Judd and Pennsylva nia's Democratic Representative Francis Walter. One reason why the Committee of One Million may achieve its goal: when the U.S. Senate last week adopted, 86 to 0, a House-approved (391-0) resolution against the admittance of Red China to the U.N., it was only reflecting over whelming U.S. opinion. Thus, the twin planks proposed by the Committee of One Million would be the best and wisest sort of politics for both parties.