PLATFORM MAKERS SHIFTED A LITTLE ON FOREIGN POLICY
Pledge to nations torn by war is held to enter field of peace aims of our allies
Party’s nominees bound; ‘as a matter of private honor and public faith’ they should accept program
By C. F. Trussell
Chicago, Illinois – (June 27)
The Republican National Convention adopted without a dissenting vote today a 27-point platform which, although it provoked backstage and open outbreaks during the six days it was in the making, lent itself in the final draft to sufficiently broad, if not elastic, interpretations as to win general acceptance for the coming campaign.
Within the document itself was a pledge of good faith which extended beyond the delegates to the party’s candidates themselves.
The pledge of good faith declares:
The acceptance of the nominations made by this convention carries with it, as a matter of private honor and public faith, an undertaking by each candidate to be true to the principles and program herein set forth.
It appeared to be the convention’s opinion that this pledge could be taken and carried out under conscientious interpretations of the issues enunciated by a wide assortment of candidates.
Similar planks were in the 1936 and 1940 platforms and were revised by the Drafting Committee this year.
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