Equal voice on Germany demanded by de Gaulle
Frenchmen point out that nation has great interest in future status of Reich
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Thomas hits Roosevelt peace plan
Socialist candidate visits city
Norman Thomas, who has had his eye on the White House door for 20 years, came to Pittsburgh today to continue his consistent, if futile, efforts to become the President of the United States.
Making his fifth stab at the Presidency on the Socialist ticket, the tall, gray-haired ex-minister is perfectly frank about his chances to beat out President Roosevelt or Governor Dewey.
He said:
No, I don’t think I’ll win this time, either. There’s no law against it but it doesn’t seem to be the custom.
‘Open ballot’ is goal
One of his main concerns, he said, was the keeping of the ballot open. He said:
There may come a time you know when a third party can muster sufficient strength to be more than just a name on the ballot.
Recently returned from a cross-country tour, the Socialist candidate declined to pick a winner in the Roosevelt-Dewey race. He did say, however, that he found more “anti” as well as “pro” Roosevelt feeling than he did Dewey backing or opposition.
During an interview in his room at the Fort Pitt Hotel, the well-known lecturer and writer talked more of winning the peace than of just winning the war.
Roosevelt plan hit
He claimed in no uncertain terms that the proposals of President Roosevelt are merely laying the groundwork for a third war and decried a “triple alliance,” masked as a new world order, that will “have cracks beneath the veneer in a few years.
He denied any infiltration of Communism into the Socialist Party, claiming beliefs of the parties were as far apart as the poles.
Mr. Thomas will speak at a rally arranged by local officers of the Socialist Party in the Fort Pitt Hotel tonight and will confer with Socialist leaders and a group of Allegheny County labor leaders.
Dewey, Hull agree on ‘waging peace’
Washington –
A new American attitude on world collaboration has emerged from the Dumbarton Oaks Conference.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidate for President, has received through his emissary, John Foster Dulles, a complete picture of the plans for post-war security. He has accepted those plans as being above party politics and agreed with Secretary of State Hull that henceforth this country will wage peace as it has waged war – united.
It is the first time in U.S. political history that the two great parties have joined in an avowal to pursue peace with the same determination that they have waged war. In this act, Governor Dewey has gained prestige while Secretary Hull has added another brilliant achievement in diplomacy to those which have marked his work for peace.
Owing to the complete success of his mission, Mr. Dulles will now have his place in history as the man who helped lift peace efforts above the range of debatable issues in domestic politics.
‘Dole economy’ rapped by Dewey
Saratoga Springs, New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, in a message to delegates at the annual meeting of the State Industrial Union Council today, assailed those “who seek to perpetuate a dole economy” sand warned that “wage earners of this nation must go forward to an assured peace in which there will be jobs for all.”
His message, read to the meeting, made it clear that Governor Dewey wished to give full recognition to labor for its part in the war effort.
Cleveland newspaper supports Dewey
Cleveland, Ohio (UP) –
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, one of the Midwest’s leading morning newspapers, today announced that it would support Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York for President.
The Plain Dealer, which backed Wendell Willkie in the 1940 campaign, said that another term for President Roosevelt would bring on “a totalitarian socialist country.”
Bricker to speak
Hartford, Connecticut (UP) –
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice-presidential nominee, will make a major campaign speech at Norwalk, Sept. 23, Republican State Headquarters announced today. The address will be broadcast.
Garrison: G.I.’s are in heaven when they see ‘stars’
Passes for tours of movie lots never go begging with servicemen
By Maxine Garrison
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Problems face auto industry in changeover
Early action urged on surplus materials
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U.S. says firm aided Germany
End to cartels and enemy thrusts urged
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Paris stages first fashion show
American girl, fresh from Normandy and Brittany, sees dazzling display
By Judy Barden, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Stokes: Reconversion
By Thomas L. Stokes
Washington –
There’s considerable speculation here as to whether Congress, in handling reconversion legislation, has played into President Roosevelt’s hands and furnished him a possible political issue.
A joint Senate-House conference committee now is struggling with the different measures, passed by each branch, in an effort to reach a compromise which Senate leaders hope will more closely approximate an adequate solution than the House bill.
The latter measure has been criticized as inadequately Bernard M. Baruch, White House consultant on reconversion programs, as well as Senator Walter George (D-GA), chairman of the Finance Committee which sponsored the Senate will. War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes tried in vain to get the House Ways and Means Committee to provide higher nationwide unemployment compensation rates – at least a $20 per week minimum for 26 weeks. That would be higher than is allowed under some state laws.
All are conservatives
In view of the criticism of these men, all recognized conservatives, it is not likely that President Roosevelt is satisfied with what Congress has done; nor does it seem possible that the conference committee, within the latitude of the two measures, can make the ultimate bill satisfactory to him. Conferees must stay within the two bills. They cannot insert new provisions.
This raises the questions as to whether the President might veto the bill, or, if not that, sign it under protest, perhaps with a stiff message to Congress criticizing what it has done. He might also suggest that additional legislation will be necessary to provide sufficient cushions for the unemployed during the changeover from war to peace production, which is already beginning.
President Roosevelt refrained from mixing into the situation while the bills were before Congress, which disappointed some New Dealers at the Capitol, a dwindling army. Although they felt that he withheld his help at a critical time, it is also true that Mr. Roosevelt has been criticized repeatedly for interfering with Congress. Republicans used to say “rubberstamp” Congress, an epithet no longer accurate.
Congress had its opportunity
Congress wanted to write legislation, itself, and it had full opportunity in the reconversion bill.
Senator Harry S. Truman (D-MO), Democratic vice-presidential candidate, obviously reflected President Roosevelt’s dissatisfaction with reconversion legislation in his own criticism of the course it was taking.
With the backing of conservatives such as Messrs. Baruch, George and Byrnes, President Roosevelt has an opportunity to take Congress to task. This will give him, at the same time, a chance to assuage the New Deal wing of the party which did not like either the Senate or House bills, but which was unable to do anything about it.
Observers at the Capitol are also commenting on what a beautiful opportunity the Republicans missed by not presenting a constructive reconversion program of their own that might have offered a middle way between the warring extremes of the Democratic Party in Congress.
With Democrats divided as they are, Republicans might be able to sail into the widening gulf and make some political capital for themselves.
They seem, instead, to prefer to follow the leadership of the Southern Democratic conservatives – they are almost beginning to talk with a Southern accent. Governor Dewey prodded the administration recently on his Midwestern tour to St. Louis for the sluggishness of its reconversion plans, but it did not seem to stir up his own flock in Congress.