New York Herald Tribune Forum, November 24, 1949
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1 9 4 9 l{etalb ~m'rlbune FORUM What Kind of Government Ahead? ... The Responsibility of Every Citizen Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday OCTOBER 24TH • 25TH • 26TH The Waldorf-Astoria How and Why the Democrats Will Win in 1950 F RANKLIN D . RoosEVELT, J R. Representative from New York The Philosophy of the Fair Deal Opening the Forum O sc AR R. E wiNG MRs . O G D EN R EID Federal Security Administrator The Individual's Responsibility for Government Panel: The Kind of Democrat I Am S MITH D wiG HT D. E isENHOWER HowARD W. Representative from Virginia General of the Army President, Columbia Uni versity FRANK P . G RAHAM Senator from North Carolina Frames of Reference ADLAI E . S TEVENSON L IND sAY RoGERS Governor of Illinois Burgess Professor of Public Law, Columbia University A Blueprint for Democracy H ERBE RT H. L EHMAN --- --THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY----- Democratic-Liberal Party Candidate for the United States Senate A Political Program for Democracy H uBERT H. H uMPHREY, J R . Senator from Minnesota Resolved: That the Democratic Party Should Seek to Become a Farmer-Labor Coalition Affirmative: J AMES G . P ATTON President, National Farmers Union Negative: CLIFFOR D p. C ASE Representative from New Jersey French Songs EDITH P IAF French Chanteuse Accompanied by the Versailles Restaurant Orchestra La Vie en Rase . W ords ond Music by Edith Piof Le Fanion de Ia Legion . 5 Raymond. Asso- Lyrics ~ Morguertte Monnot-Music Music pATRICE M UNSEL -------2~~ay~;4~~~?N Soprano, Metropolitan Opera October 25, 1949 Association Stuart Ross, Accompanist Come to the Fair • • • • • • • Eosthope tylortin Willow Song ••••••• S. Coleridge- Taylor The Hoover Commission Recommendations I 'Sempre Libera' (La Traviata). • •••• • Verdi ARTHUR s. FLEMMING Instrumentality of the People President, Ohio Wesleyan University VAL PETERSON The Hoover Report is Up to You Governor of Nebraska RoBERT L. JoHNSON How Can the Democrats Help the Republican Party? President, Temple University EsTEs KEFAuvER Senator from Tennessee Panel: How much Should Government Do-on Health, -----THE REPUBLICAN PARTY----- Education and Housing? HAROLD RussELL Commander of Am vets The Heart of a Republican Program jAMES P. KEM Senator from Missouri HENRY. CABOT LonGE, JR. Senator from Massachusetts MARGARET CHASE SMITH Senator from Maine The Republican National Committee's Job in 1950 and 1952 WAYNE L. MoRsE Senator from Oregon GuY G. GABRIELSON 1 Chairman, Republican National Committee } jAMES G. BLAINE President, Chamber of Commerce of A Middle Way the State of New York President, Marine Midland Trust PHILIP H. WILLKIE Company of New York Member, Indiana State Legislature Discussion led by Rallying New Republicans TEx McCRARY NBC and New York Herald Tribune ALEXANDER M. LANKLER The Free Man Director, Youth Activities, New York State Republican Committee JoHN FosTER DuLLES Senator from New York Participants (cont'dl: -------3~~ ~d~y~1~.!?~ MRs. ELIZABETH HEFFELFINGER .. 26, 1949 Republican National Committee Woman from October Minnesota DR. ALTHEA K. HoTTEL President, American Association of University Women THE CITIZEN'S RESPONSIBILITY VICTOR A. JoHNSTON Campaign Director, National Republican Senatorial Opening Statement Committee DR. PETER H. ODEGARD MICKEY LEVINE Chairman, Political Science Depart~ent, University Member, State Executive Committee, Americans for of California Democratic Action Discussion Outline MRs. OswALD B. LoRD 1 -How Can the Average Citizen in his Commu Chairman, United States Committee for the United nity Exert a Maximum Influence on Govern Nations International Children's Emergency Fund ment Policy? DR. RoBERT F. RAY 2 - Can American Political Parties be Made More Director, Institute of Public Affairs, State University Efficient Tools of Democracy? of Iowa 3- What Are the Most Effective Ways of MRs. GEREL R UBI EN Building Political Support? President, New York Women 's Trade Union League Participants: K. FRANCES ScoTT, M.D. President, National Federation of Business and Pro jACOB M. ARVEY fessional Women's Clubs, Inc. Chairman, Democratic Party of Cook County, Illinois Miss ANNA LoRD STRAuss WILLIAM M . BoYLE, JR. President, League of Women Voters of the Chairman, Democratic National Committee United States MRs. J. L. BLAIR BucK MRs. CYNTHIA ZIMMERMAN President, General Federation of Women's Clubs Assistant to the Campaign Director, National Republican Senatorial Committee MRs. LAFELL DICKINSON Music Republican National Committee Woman from New Hampshire EuGENE CoNLEY Tenor, Metropolitan Opera Association MRS. INDIA EDWARDS Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic Marcel Frank, Accompanist National Committee 'Solut, demeure chaste et pure' (Foust) .Gounod MRs. JosEPH R. FARRINGTON A Bollynure Ballad • • • orr. Hughes President, National Federation of Women's I Know Where I'm Goin' • • • • orr. Hughes Republican Clubs Cossack Love Song • • • • • • • • •• Kountz The World is our Framework DoROTHY FosmcK -------4Tw~ .. ~!~7~~~M~ Member, Policy Planning Staff, October 26, 1949 Department of State What Lies Ahead in Germany? THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF WORLD PROBLEMS Lucms D. CLAY "faith and Works" in the United Nations General, United States Army (Retired) Former Military Governor of the United States JOHN SHERMAN CooPER Zone in Germany Member, United States Delegation to the The Council of Europe United Nations SFORZINO SFORZA Asia's Red Riddle Staff Member of The Council of Europe Secretariat A. T. STEELE New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Partnership for Survival in the Far East BARBARA wARD MRs. DoROTHY BRANDON Assistant Editor, "The Economist" of London New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Recently returned from Indonesia, The Interdependence of World Problems will answer a few questions Loms A. JOHNSON Message to the Forum Secretary of Defense jAWAHARLAL NEHRU Prime Minister of India Free India in World Affairs MADAME V. L. pANDIT Indian Ambassador to the United States Towards a Better Life for Underdeveloped Countries DAviD OwEN Assistant Secretary-General in Charge of Economic Affairs, United Nations Collegiate Chorale WILLIAM j ONSON Director Don Smith, Accompanist Alleluia . • Randall Thompson Dorchester • William Billings Assurance. • •••••• • William Billings My Lord, What A Mourning William Dawson Ain'-a That Good News . William Dawson dl.iRK lUtalb~aftibunt - / ,., .. 1201 ,/ ' CLAss OF SERVICB " SYMBOLS ' -- DL-Day Letter Th'- Is a full.,.,.te WESTERN. Telegram or Cable- NL-Nlaht letter ,;am unless its de- (01). re; rred character is in- LC - Deferred Coble dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre· UN I 0 NLT-Cable Nichr Letter 'ceding the address. ~ N W. P. MARSHALL. PRES I DENT Ship Radiorram ;' . The tlliDg tiJlle shown m the date line on telegrams and day letters IS STANDARD TIME at po1nt of ongm. TIJlle of receipt IS STANDARD TIME' at pomt of desnnanon ~\~ Z 41 PD= TB NE VJ YO R fJ Y 29 .3 50P= ~ i919 UL'I ?q PM. 5 r.- HO HUBERT H HUf1PHREY J 1d ·SE f .ATE ·OFFICE B LD~ ?LE _ASE V/ 1 E f,1 E COLLECT WH ETHER . YOU FORU f1 SPEECH AS PR I NTED I 1· THE FORU~ SECTJO · OF OCTOBE R TH I RT IETH fS CO RR ECT FO PU BLICATIO J IN FORUf. BOOf<:: ~ HE LE I HIETT \ALLE NE \/ Y0 RK HE ALD T R I B Uf E THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FRO:\IITS PATRONS C ONCER:-.liNG lTS - ERVICE HOMPHREY First Session ) ADVANCE TEXT of an address to be delivered at approximately ~ P.M., Monday evening; October 24th, 1949 at the first session of the 18th ANNUAL NEVv YORK HERALD TRIBUNE FORUM at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Now York. • I by Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. Senator from Minnesota "A P.olitical Pror.; ram for Democracy" This speech will be ·broadca st by Station WNYC and Station WFDR-FM. It will be rebroadcast over Station HJZ from lls45 to 12:00 P.M. I • Humphrey -1 I appreciate your invitation to participate in this stimulating forun, to speak on the very important subject of the political program for our democracy. Professor Rogers has given us a goodJ succinct statement of the conditions that con- in America as we attempt political reform. He lists "federalism, parochial- sm, and seniority" as formidable facts of our polity to be reckoned wi;th. I agree. These conditions are obstacles to effective politi~al leadership in this country4 But the onduct of public affairs in these crucial days ca lls for forth-right and , . and r esponsibility if we are to achieve the prom~ses of the Ameri ~ and safeguard democracy in the worl at l a rg e ~ vVhat we seek; wit~· series of arrangements the Congre ss and the President, avoid dangerous loyaltiesj and a national system in ac. t ~ l vVhi le we have 48 state legislatures, we have one national economic and industr· The trend from state government to national government has been f ortified nd accelerated by the Civil War, by the on- ' ward sweep of science and technology,f by he unifying forces of transportation ' and I communication, and by a lo g series C o ur~ decisions. The same ·evolution• ary influences a re opera ing in our political There are still lags ·here and I there, particularly in the South, but state boss loca l party machines are slip- ' gain force and strength ·under the stimulating influenc of groups lik~ Americ~ns for Democratic Action and activities of such groups as the Le gue of Women Voters, ~ ganized labor movement and the National Association of Christians and Jews, is ~~ a healthy trend, and one that is helping to dissolve tho traditional J(t' divisions and political alignments_ of the American pooplee (MORE) Humphrey -2 One of the traditional articles of our po litica l f aith in faQFie• has been our belief in the bi-party system. We believe that political partie s are the principal instru- ments of democratic government and that the party which wins a majority of the popu- lar vote should have the responsibility and the power to govern the country~ ~ The ¢ajor party is the only political organization in American life which is in a position to claim that it can measure up to the requirements of.modern public policy.