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===Foreign policy===
 
===Foreign policy===
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While strongly conservative, Hickenlooper sided with [[internationalism|internationalists]] on many foreign policy matters, supporting the [[United Nations]] and backing foreign aid in 1947. He also supported the [[Marshall Plan]] as well as the establishment of [[NATO]].
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While strongly conservative, Hickenlooper sided with [[internationalism|internationalists]] on many foreign policy matters, supporting the [[United Nations]] and backing foreign aid in 1947. He also supported the [[Marshall Plan]] as well as the establishment of [[NATO]]. However, he was much more staunchly anti-communist than many moderates, having been referred to as a "[[Cold War]] warrior". Along with [[Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.]], Hickenlooper refused to sign a committee report which cleared the [[State Department]] of wrongdoing.
    
Hickenlooper backed General [[Douglas MacArthur]] in the latter's dispute with President [[Harry Truman]] at the time of the [[Korean War]].<ref name="The First Hickenlooper"/>
 
Hickenlooper backed General [[Douglas MacArthur]] in the latter's dispute with President [[Harry Truman]] at the time of the [[Korean War]].<ref name="The First Hickenlooper"/>
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