Landon offers 3-point plan to GOP
War, industry and peace stressed
Topeka, Kansas (UP) –
Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican standard-bearer, offered three planks today for the 1944 GOP platform – to win the war, reconvert to peacetime production by a free industry, and pursuance of a lasting peace.
In an address before the Kansas State Republican Convention, Mr. Landon called for the party to chose a presidential candidate who would work with Congress ad inspire confidence at home and abroad.
Scores red tape
The GOP nominee also must be a man determined to wipe out bureaucratic “red tape that is interfering with our war effort,” he said.
Mr. Landon recommended that the party platform include:
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“An assurance that we will exert every effort toward winning the war. No temporary political expedience will be permitted to jeopardize or delay on hour the winning of the war.”
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“Definite plans for reconversion from war to peace and for returning soldiers and sailors: a blueprint for free industry and not a socialistic state so that businessmen are assured of a fair profit, labor will be assured of full employment, good pay and higher standards of living, and farmers assured of a better price for their crops.”
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“The war and the way to lasting peace must be pursued with unrelenting vigor.”
Confusion charged
Mr. Landon condemned the present administration as “the same babble of voices confusing our foreign relations that confused our domestic relations.”
Off-hand comments by President Roosevelt, confusion among government agencies and vagueness of foreign relations in general, he said, have weakened the war effort.
He said:
The ballyhoo that surrounded the President’s return from Tehran is almost unpleasantly reminiscent of Dr. Cook’s return from the North Pole.