Secret diplomacy scored by Bricker
Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican presidential aspirant, denounced secret diplomacy as un-American in an address here last night in which he said “the public must be advised of the facts.”
He told a Union League Club audience:
If, before the war, the people had been advised what was happening in the Pacific, the executive branch and Congress would have been forced to take adequate action.
The administration either knew or should have known what was taking place and if it had acted in time, Pearl Harbor never would have happened. It is not enough that the facts are known in Washington, but the people also must know them.
Mr. Bricker, en route to the West Coast on a campaign tour, also urged:
…the retention of strategic bases and installations throughout the world which we have built with our sweat and substance and for which we have fought with the blood and lives of our boys.