In Washington –
War expenses for year near $88 billion
Average daily cost tops $300 million
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Simms: Shaky picture inside France faces Allies
Pétain venerated by many people
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Bricker charges U.S. needs change
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (UP) – (May 13)
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio said tonight that the United States needs a “change in leadership – a new President who is not afraid to speak for America.”
The Governor, who is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said:
We want a President who will speak for America’s rights, her convictions and ideals with the same force, the same sturdy voice and the same staunch determination with which Churchill speaks for England and Stalin speaks for Russia.
“If I am elected, that will be my policy,” he told Milwaukee’s Sunday Morning Breakfast Club, which sponsored the address.
He said:
We want cooperation with all friendly powers and are proud to fight beside our friends for freedom of the world. But we do not intend to underwrite any alien empire nor further any nation’s imperialistic ambition.
Notify dependency office when you change address
Thousands of Army allowance checks go back monthly because dependents have moved
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Poll: Public opposes lifting the lid on pay, prices
Fear of inflation believed large factor
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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UNDERGROUND CHIEFTAINS IN EUROPE REPORT THEY’RE READY TO LIGHT POWDERKEG OF REVOLT
Patriots send reports from three nations
Forces awaiting only Allied invasion word
By John A. Parris, United Press staff writer
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German generals plan next war
Take coming defeat as temporary setback
By Glen Perry, North American Newspaper Alliance
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U.S. hopes to talk Sweden into deal
But ready to wield club in bearing crisis
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‘Treated like servant,’ actress gets divorce
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Editorial: Pennsylvania and Dewey
Legally, the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican presidential convention is not bound to support any particular candidate for the Republican nomination.
But logically, there is sound moral reason why the delegation should support Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
The 70 delegates to the Republican convention are not legally bound to vote for Mr. Dewey because, through the manipulation of the Republican organization, nearly all of them ran as unpledged candidates.
Under each name of the ballot, they frankly told the voters: “Does not promise to support popular choice.”
Bu, as it turned out, few of these delegates were opposed at the April 2 primary. And in many cases where there were contests for delegate, the opposing delegates likewise dodged any commitment.
So Pennsylvania voters, by and large, had no choice. There were no Dewey candidates, nor Willkie candidates, nor MacArthur candidates, nor Stassen candidates. And very few agreed to abide by the preference of the voters.
As a result, the voters utilized the next best means of demonstrating their choice.
They wrote in the names of the candidates they favored. An overwhelming majority of them said they favored Governor Dewey. The write-in vote he received in Pennsylvania was spontaneous and proportionally large. No other candidate was fairly in the running.
While delegates to the national conventions are elected under pretty loose instructions from the voters, they are, nevertheless, representatives of the electors in their party. As such, they have a moral obligation to represent the views of those voters.
The Pennsylvania delegation has a moral duty to vote for Mr. Dewey.