https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/f75d77f0356b671a240567293842ed9f.pdf 4ce080325a66367d96db307edff357dc PDF Text Text Document idisclosed unde* the Accessrfb information Act JU\ ;ue en y£rtp de/la toi suf Tacces a Tinformation Document divi 9> DEPARTMENT^OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS ' /9BMX Subject. Date APRIL. 16/62 Publication SPtdal to The New York Tiifiej j WASHINGTON, April 15—The ^decision'of. trie new Republican National Chairman to. organize party support for a modified antiballistic missile systeis aroused a squall of protest among dissenting Republicans today. The announcement yesterday by Representative Rogers C. 1 B. Morton of Maryland that the national committee would distribute background material on President Nixon's defense plan to party leaders provoked angry reactions from Republican Senators who disagree with -the White House on this issue. bSenator Charles H. Percy of Illinois led off at a breakfast meeting with reporters by charging that the party leadership was attempting to enforce a "loyalty test" andtetifle legitimate dissent from the official Administration position. Jf''If that is .the kind of criteria by which we are going to be judged," Senator Percy declared, "then we're in for some really troubled times. I just basically disagree with that principle." * , At a luncheon meeting of the Republican Policy Committee, a numbe of critics of the Nixon missile proposal objected strongly to what appeared to be Mr. Morton's plan to spend party funds to support one side Continued on Page 13, Column 1 ik THE....NEW.. YORK.. TIMES. Morton's Campaign For ABM Arouses , GJOJ.MimkFoes By WARREN WEAVER Jr. T ' of the controversial issue. Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont was reported to have said at the closed session that Mr. Percy was to be criticized . only for not being forceful enough in his protest. ' Material for Both Sides Late in the day, Senator Percy's office said he had been told by Mr. Morton that the national chairman, elected yes• terday to replace Ray C, Bliss, now intended, to make "materials on both sides of the issue" available to party leaders who requested them. Mr. Morton could not be reached for comment.' Yesterday, he said that he and other ..officers of the national com- ^mittee would be making ] speeches in support of the ^President's position and that »bjthe committee would circulate '""background - statements and speeches" to party leaders on the issue. - • * These,were some of the reactions on Capitol Hill today to Mr. Morton's statement: Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York:; "t hardly think it's within the jurisdiction, of. the national committee to deal with the substantive matters of high national policy. I hope the new chairman will, review his decision with the' President and decide to keep foreign policy out of the arena of party • politics." f •i Opposes Confrontation Senator Clifford P. Case of New Jersey: "It serves no one's interest, public or private, to let this matter get into political confrontation, directly contrary to what a number of us have been working hard to avoid in the national interest" Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland: "If any party chieftain or any party tries to make this issue purely partisan, let the blood be on his hands. There'll be very real trouble if these [party] resources, which come from so many sources, were to be devoted to this sort of issue." Senator Charles E. Goodell of New York: "I intend to strongly advise Mr. Morton that they should not be spending Republican National Committee money for this. I would be equally critical if they decided.' to go all-out against the ABM." The Asministration continued to press for broader public support for its antiballistic missile program. Each one of more than 4,500 Republican women, gathered here for their annula, conference, received a nine-page mimeographed question-and-answer paper on the Safeguard system. From Klein Office The paper, unidentified as to authorship, was prepared in the office of Herbert Klein, the White House director of communications, for the use and information of Administration officials. A Klein aide said- it ., had been furnished to the Republican women at their request. , Senator Percy also proposed that the first order of business at arms talks with the Soviet j Union be an immediate freeze! on the production and deploy-' ment or all offensive and defensive nuclear weapons by both countries. He said he was convinced that the Russians were anxious to open such talks soon. Mr. Percy said that moer than 50 Senators would vote against the ABM system today but that that might not remain true in two or three months. Among the 43 Republican Sentaors, he , said, ther were 14 solid votes against the system and another four to six who might vote against it. "We've got to demonstrate to .the country, to the President ^and to the world that we can stop an arms program." V 000271 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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