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By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
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Governor Dewey outlines way to keep peace
Opposes secrecy in world affairs
Aboard Dewey campaign train (UP) –
The Republican Party was pledged today by presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey to nonpartisan efforts to shape and maintain world peace.
Mr. Dewey voiced the pledge last night in a nationwide radio address, the second of seven major speeches scheduled in a three-week coast-to-coast campaign tour. He spoke before the closing meeting of the Republican Women’s Clubs biennial convention augmented by an audience which packed the Louisville National Guard Armory to the rafters and was estimated by GOP National Committeemen at 18,000.
Goes to Michigan
Today he headed for Michigan for conferences at Lansing with party leaders and labor, agriculture, Negro and veterans’ groups and a weekend visit with his mother, Mrs. George M. Dewey, at his birthplace, Owosso.
Choosing Kentucky for his foreign policy speech only because he wanted it to be the second address on his agenda, Mr. Dewey voiced this promise as titular head of the Republican Party:
So long as I have anything to say about it, I shall insist on two things.
First, that the American people shall be fully informed of our efforts to achieve and to keep the peace.
Secondly, these matters shall never be subjects for partisan political advantage by any individual, or by any party either in or out of power.
Mr. Dewey said the American people are agreed that there shall not be third world war and know that we cannot achieve that resolve through isolation.
He said:
Our problem is not how to stay out of a future war. Our problem is to prevent a future war before it happens, instead of getting into it after it has happened.
Calling attention to the fact that he has already made “a practical beginning” on nonpartisan cooperation with Secretary of State Cordell Hull on the Dumbarton Oaks Conference to set up an international peace organization, Mr. Dewey said signing a peace pact is not enough.
He endorsed the four-power Dumbarton Oaks tentative agreement for an international assembly with an executive council on which the Big Four and smaller nations shall be represented.
He said:
This world organization should develop effective cooperative means to prevent or repel military aggression, and such means should include the use of force as well as the mobilization of international opinion, or morale pressure and economic sanctions.
There should be a world court to deal with justifiable disputes.
He added:
But even this is not enough… We must be fair and upright in our dealings with the smaller nations…
We Americans and a few strong friends must not assume the right to rule the world. It is the obligation of the mighty to make common cause with the less powerful in the interests of justice and peace.
Then he injected the only political note of his half-hour speech. Referring to the need for continuing international cooperation to “get along with our neighbors” be asserted:
By this I do not mean getting along by the philosophy of the Washington wasters. They have been proposing that America should try to buy the goodwill of the world out of the goods and labor of the American people… That is no lasting way to win friends or to influence people.
To aid freed people
Mr. Dewey pledged that the American people will help liberated peoples through their period of crisis.
He promised:
We can and we will seek to work out conditions that will lead to an ever-wider exchange of goods and services without injury to our own people.
Beyond that, we know that we shall be able to help in keeping this long peace we pray for, only if we are strong at home.
Mr. Dewey said complete and crushing victory over Germany and Japan must be followed by complete disarmament of both aggressor nations and punishment of high and low international criminals in both countries.
Wants Germany disarmed
He suggested that in the case of Germany, it may be necessary to establish a commission to supervise disarmament and prevent for many years any rearmament, possibly even to the extent of denying the nation any aviation industry of its own and internationalization of the Ruhr section.
He added:
In the case of Japan, similar measures adjusted to the particular characteristics of that island nation will be needed.
In this case he noted that China must have a definite and special interest.
Charge repeated
Mr. Dewey made only one major departure from his prepared text – to repeat the change of his opening campaign speech at Philadelphia last night that the Roosevelt administration plans to keep young men in the Army after victory is won because it fears failure in creation of peacetime jobs, and military service would be cheaper.
He repeated his belief that the men in the Armed Forces should be brought home rapidly after victory is won and released at the earliest possible moment.
Byrnes denies ‘keeping’ troops
Washington (UP) –
The Roosevelt administration is already on record as favoring dismissal of men from the Armed Forces “when military needs no longer require them” and has given “no consideration” to keeping men in the Army for economic reasons, according to War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes.
Asked to reply to charges of Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey that the administration planned to keep men in the Army because it feared unemployment, Mr. Byrnes recalled his own testimony before a Senate committee last June in which he told how the Army demobilization plan had been worked out after interviews with servicemen to find out their wishes.
Asked at that time whether the administration feared releasing men from the Army because there would be no jobs for them, Mr. Byrnes said:
There isn’t any fear – the administration is in favor of releasing men from the Army when military needs no longer require them, and has given no consideration to keeping men in the Army for any economic conditions.
New ‘action’ group to support Dewey
New York (UP) –
A war veterans’ political action committee has been organized to support the Republican presidential candidacy of Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
The committee, with headquarters in the Hotel Lexington, will organize veterans of both World Wars. It has no connections with the CIO’s Political Action Committee supporting the Democrats.
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On Italian front –
Allies capture heights north of Florence
Nazis retreat behind Gothic Line in west
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Editorial: Dewey gets started
Governor Dewey, opening his campaign in Philadelphia, said he wanted to make it clear that:
This is not merely a campaign against an individual or a political party. It is not merely a campaign to displace a tired, exhausted, quarreling and bickering administration with a fresh and vigorous administration. It is a campaign against an administration which was conceived in defeatism, which failed for eight straight years to restore our domestic economy, which has been the most wasteful, extravagant and incompetent administration in the history of the nation, and, worst of all, one which has lost faith in itself and in the American people.
He pointed to the administrative chaos in Washington, the piling of agency on agency, the quarrels that no one in authority stops, the snarls that nobody untangles, the messes that are made of the people’s business at the people’s cost.
He cited the New Dealers’ fears for the future, their doleful prediction of difficulties and delays in reconversion and demobilization, their dismal preparations for another depression after the war – including Gen. Hershey’s shocking statement that after the war “we can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we could create an agency for them when they are out.”
But, more than that, Mr. Dewey asserted his own firm faith that America can provide jobs and opportunities for all; that we have not even begun to build out industrial plant; that we have not exhausted our inventive genius or our capacity to produce more goods and an ever-higher living standard for our people; that we need not sacrifice freedom to achieve social security; that “we can achieve real social security only if we do keep our freedom.”
Of course, he said, we need regulation of the stock markets, bank-deposit insurance, price support for agriculture, unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, relief whenever there are not enough jobs, protection of labor’s right to organize and bargain collectively.
But we must also have a government which believes in enterprise and government policies which encourage enterprise… We must see to it that the man who wants to produce more jobs is not throttled by the government, but knows that he has a government as eager for him to succeed as he is, himself… Our place in a peaceful world can and will be made secure. But nothing on earth will make us secure unless we are productive and unless we have faith in ourselves.
It remains for Governor Dewey to prove to the country that, as President, he would know how to act on the beliefs he proclaimed in Philadelphia. Such action, as he said, involves many things – tax policies, regulatory policies, labor policies, opportunities for small business, the encroachments of bureaucracy – subjects which he promised to discuss in detail in future speeches.
We think that his emphasis on jobs and opportunities, on production and prosperity, on the need for vigor and freshness in the government during coming year of peace, got his campaign off to a hopeful start.
Governor Bricker to ‘accept’ in speech tonight
New Deal abuses liberties, he says
Mitchell, Indiana (UP) –
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice-presidential nominee, today charged the Roosevelt administration with “threatening, abusing and trammeling” essential American liberties as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Mr. Bricker, en route to French Lick, Indiana, where he will formally accept the GOP vice-presidential nomination in an address before the Indiana Republican Editorial Association tonight, told a group of Republicans here that the GOP was campaigning against an administration which was “conceived in defeatism.”
KDKA, WJAS and WCAE will broadcast Mr. Bricker’s speech at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Mr. Bricker said here:
The New Deal has always operated on the conviction that ours is a mature economy – that there are no more frontiers – that America is bankrupt and that we will have to liquidate our liberties and be regimented into a socialistic, totalitarian bureaucracy.
The Ohio Governor chose the Hoosier state, a critical political unit for the Republicans, as a step in the national party strategy to win Congressional seats in anticipation of victory for the Dewey-Bricker ticket.
The governor was accompanied from Columbus by a party of Ohio state and GOP officials and newspapermen. Mrs. Bricker came from Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended a National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs convention.