Bricker blasts ‘indispensability’
Failures paved way for war, he charges
Provo, Utah (UP) –
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker today labeled President Roosevelt’s “vaunted indispensability” for foreign affairs a “myth” and blamed him for failure of the 1933 World Economic Conference which, he said, paved the way for the present war.
In a speech prepared for delivery here, the Republican vice-presidential nominee asserted the New Deal did not want next month’s election decided solely on domestic issues, because it feared “an overwhelming defeat.” Instead, he said, the Democrats want the campaign based on foreign issues because they think they can win on them.
Governor Bricker said:
The New Dealers believed they have been able to keep the people in the dark on foreign affairs so that their high-sounding phrases and noble platitudes will sound persuasive. …The New Deal candidate’s vaunted indispensability for foreign affairs is pure myth.
Governor Bricker said the “tragic story” of the London conference “proves” the myth. American delegates, he said, lacked purpose and direction, were split by dissension, and when they finally seemed on the verge of a minor agreement, “Mr. Roosevelt sent a blighting message to the conference blasting all hopes.”
Governor Bricker said:
That closed the door on international conferences until war broke out. Germany was given a free rein to go ahead.
Can’t trust Dewey, Truman charges
Butte, Montana (UP) –
Senator Harry S. Truman said last night that Governor Thomas E. Dewey had to be “smoked out” on foreign affairs and that a “man who has to be smoked out isn’t to be trusted.”
Addressing a Democratic rally here, Senator Truman departed from his prepared text to say:
Mr. Dewey has been a long time finding where he stands on world affairs. We finally smoked him out. A man who has to be smoked out isn’t to be trusted.
In other departures from his prepared speech, Senator Truman urged unity among groups primarily interested in reclamation, flood control and power development in the Missouri Valley to promote the development of all three, and he spoke out for the first time on his campaign tour against sectional discriminations in freight rates.
He pledged the administration would extend rural electrification after the war if it is kept in office Nov. 7.