Dewey: Peace force up to Congress
Governor to speak in Chicago tonight
Aboard Dewey campaign train (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey today left up to Congress the decision on committing U.S. forces in advance to preservation of world peace and promised that a Republican victory in November would provide the unity necessary to achieve that end.
The Republican presidential candidate charged that President Roosevelt’s own record of relationships with Congress, as well as the Roosevelt administration record in foreign relations, would fall short of that goal.
Speaks again tonight
Immediate after the speech, Mr. Dewey headed southward for stops at Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another major speech in Chicago tonight in which he proposes to discuss “The Moral Issues in This Election.”
WJAS will broadcast the speech at 10:00 p.m. EWT.
A spokesman said Mr. Dewey would take up, in the Chicago speech, “the use of government power, including spending and favors, by President Roosevelt to achieve perpetuation in office.”
At Milwaukee, Mr. Dewey said that post-war international collaboration was above partisan political considerations and that his speech last night in Minneapolis eliminated foreign policy as a campaign issue “as far as I am concerned.”
Mr. Dewey promised that if he is elected, there will be “the largest and finest housecleaning there ever was” in Washington.
‘Scuttling’ charged
In his Minneapolis speech, Mr. Dewey charged that Mr. Roosevelt “deliberately scuttled” the London Economic Conference of 1933 and thereby committed “the most completely isolationist action ever taken by an American President in our 150 years of history.”
He added the accusation that the Roosevelt administration “permitted” the sale of scrap iron and oil to Japan up until four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor which precipitated the United States into the war.
Mr. Dewey challenged:
Let those who claim to have exercised great foresight remember these lessons in history. And, let us as a nation never forget them.
Silent on Ball
The audience in Minneapolis’ Municipal Auditorium, estimated by Governor Edward J. Thye at “more than 12,000,” cheered wildly at the New York Governor’s response to Mr. Roosevelt’s own recitation of the history of foreign relations before the Foreign Policy Association in New York City last Saturday night.
Mr. Dewey chose the home state of Senator Joseph H. Ball (R-MN), ardent internationalist who bolted the Republican ticket because he was dissatisfied with the GOP nominee’s views on foreign policy, to deliver his third major speech on the question.
He never once mentioned the young Republican Senator but he paid high tribute to former Governor Harold E. Stassen, Mr. Ball’s mentor, as “a bold and courageous leader of opinion.”
Earlier speech recalled
In an obvious answer to Mr. Ball’s reasons for bolting the Republican ticket, Mr. Dewey insisted he has gone farther into the question of collaboration without reservations than has Mr. Roosevelt.
He recalled that in his speech before The New York Herald-Tribune Forum in New York City last week he came out for participation in a world organization without reservations which would nullify its power to halt future aggression.
Up to Congress
Mr. Dewey said:
That means, of course, that it must not be subject to a reservation that would require our representative to return to Congress for authority every time he had to make a decision.
Obviously, Congress, and only Congress, has the constitutional power to determine what quota of force it will make available, and what discretion it will give our representative to use that force.
I have not the slightest doubt that a Congress which is working in partnership with the President will achieve the result we all consider essential and grant adequate power for swift action to the American representative.
