America at war! (1941–) – Part 4

1896

americavotes1944

Editorial: Mr. Dewey on security

Governor Dewey’s social security program coincides with the important and worthy proposals of the American Federation of Labor on the same subject.

High-up New Deal spokesmen likewise have advocated, as Mr. Dewey does, that old-age insurance be broadened to bring its benefits to millions now excluded – farmers, farm workers. domestic servants, servicemen, employees of charitable institutions and governmental units and people who work for themselves. So, too, on the broadening of unemployment insurance.

Voters who agree – as we do – that these improvements in our social security system should be made, will ask this question:

Would they more likely be attained through Mr. Roosevelt’s leadership, or Mr. Dewey’s?

Mr. Dewey answers that by pointing out that the original Social Security Act, from which these obviously fair and desirable provisions were excluded, became law in 1935, and since then, except for minor amendments in 1939, no changes have been made in the law. True, the New Dealers have proposed; but they haven’t disposed.

Mr. Dewey didn’t say so, but the reason the New Dealers have not succeeded – and probably never could – is that every time they propose such worthwhile reforms as those listed above, which nine out of 10 Congressmen would be glad to vote for, they also insist that Congress accept a lot of controversial and screwball proposals at the same time.

They demand socialized medicine, and thereby arouse all the doctors to oppose any change in the law. They insist that the state unemployment insurance systems be federalized – and so stir up the opposition of state governments and people who believe in home rule. They cry out for such fantastic schemes as paying people $35 a week for not working, which is more than many people get for working – and an understandably suspicious Congress pigeonholes all proposals.

With the New Dealers, it’s “whole hog or nothing” – and more and more lately it’s nothing.

Mr. Dewey evidently does not intend to make any such silly mistakes. His program is one which would enlist the support, rather than the opposition, of doctors and state governments, and one which Congress quickly would accept. Mr. Dewey seems to think that the goal of all Americans sharing alike the benefits of social security is more desirable than eternally fanning a controversy.

1897

americavotes1944

Hansen: Thomas Dewey’s conservative tendencies frighten writers

Harding-Coolidge reaction feared
By Harry Hansen

Several months ago, I was eating lunch with a gay party of writers when one man remarked that he had just read advance sheets of biography of Thomas E. Dewey. The table fell silent, as if it had just received bad news, and a friend asked: “Who wrote it?”

“Stanley Walker.”

“Is it worth reading?”

Our informant spoke deliberately and, I thought, sadly, “Yes, I really think so.” he said. “But then, you see, Walker likes Dewey.”

This seemed to explain everything, like a doctor’s account of how you got that boil on your neck. The talk turned to other matters, but I reflected that these men found such a book scarcely comprehensible. Stanley Walker has seen similar manifestations of this among columnists, publicists and diners at nightclubs and lashes out at them in his book Dewey: An American of This Century (Whitney House).

Walker can be pretty sarcastic when he gets going, but about the only time he really hits one in this polite narrative is when he considers authors and newspapermen who are opponents of Thomas E. Dewey. He speaks with disdain of those who meet at the Artists and Writers Restaurant, where Walker himself must go for a snort, the Algonquin, the Stork and 21.

“Does anyone give a hoot what saloon society thinks about Dewey?” he asks, “Probably not, but still the matter has a certain importance because these people are not only very talkative, but some of them, unless far gone in crapulence, can actually write stuff that is widely read.” Walker knows that “they fill the magazines and the syndicated newspaper columns to an extraordinary degree.” Some exhibit signs of hysteria when Dewey’s name is mentioned. “In these circles being against Dewey is a fashionable pose.”

Dewey and writers

It 1s quite true that many writers are against Dewey for President. and Stanley Walker’s book would have been stronger if he had discussed the reasons seriously. Writers, on the whole, are not conservatives; they are in the vanguard of reform and fear the conservative influence of Dewey, in spite of their irritation with what they call the conservative tendencies of the Roosevelt administration. They swallow many of the injustices of the administration because they fear a reaction to the Harding-Coolidge days, although, the record of Dewey as prosecutor and governor has given little comfort to the old guard.

As I am not an extreme partisan in either camp. I often view the intolerant attitudes of my friends – who are in the lead in condemning intolerance – with awe. After the First World War I returned a firm believer in the League of Nations. When practically all the writers began to kick the League around, I became a sadly confused man. Now they are all on the other side again, clamoring for a League with teeth in it. A few years ago, they cheered Thomas E. Dewey when he convicted gangsters and crooked politicians. Then word got around that he was a cold proposition, sometimes curt, not hail-fellow-well-met with newspapermen and they fell out. Walker agrees that this trait can be exasperating, but there is something to be said for reticence. “Like it or not, it’s Dewey.”

You can take your choice between the Dewey coolness and the Rooseveltian warmth – especially toward vice-presidential candidates. They seem to cancel out.

Taller than Stalin!

Stanley Walker has given an excellent account of the Governor’s beginnings, his family – strongly, rooted in American pioneer history – and his career in public office. And the book is a model of a campaign biography. There are no log cabins in it and no horny-handed sons of toil, although Tom did pitch hay on Michigan farms. There is no bitter attack on the Roosevelt administration, although included are speeches that criticize it.

The chief objections to Dewey are brought up and answered.

There is the charge that the Governor is young and his own retort: “Is that wrong?” There is the old stock question of the unconvinced: “Has he grown?” There is mention of the charge that he caught a few crooks but did not cleanse New York of sin, that in convicting some he protected and freed others. Stanley Walker has pretty good answers to these stock objections. To the talk that Dewey is a little man, Walker replies: “He is about three inches taller than Joseph Stalin and almost two inches taller than Winston Churchill.”

That ought to put the opposition on its toes. But there is still the matter of the mustache. That’s a tough hurdle. Walker does his best to justify it. He says it gives cartoonists a chance to do things with Dewey’s face. Let the opposition be grateful for that. All the Republicans have had to distort these many years is a cigarette holder.

1898

I DARE SAY —
Concerning Arsenic and other offerings of screen and stage

By Florence Fisher Parry

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1899

Foster: Films use New York settings

Favor big town for gay stories
By Ernest Foster

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Lily Pons sings to her boys

Diva longs for native France
By Si Steinhauser

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1900

Three left in race –
Tigers eliminate Red Sox; Browns, Yanks victors

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Patterson sparks rally –
Illinois whips Indiana, 26–18, in vivid start of big ten campaign

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1901

Carriers prepare to meet competition from airlines

New cars, lower fares planned after war
By S. Burton Heath, Pittsburgh Press staff writer

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1902

Finally transcribed the article. It’s quite the fascinating story…

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1903

Oberdonau-Zeitung (September 25, 1944)

In den USA wächst die Judenfeindschaft

Sie ernten, was sie gesät – in allen Feindländern dieselbe Erfahrung

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1904

Kärntner Volkszeitung und Heimatblatt (September 25, 1944)

Die Schweren Kämpfe im Norden der Westfront dauern an

Weitere Versuche des Gegners zur Ausschaltung der befestigen Hafenplätze

Berlin, 25. September –
Während die schweren Kämpfe im Norden der Westfront mit den Luftlandetruppen des Feindes sowie im Süden mit den ununterbrochen angreifenden Verbände der Nordamerikaner andauern, setzt der Gegner seine Versuche fort, die befestigten Hafenplätze im Pas-de-Calais und an der Atlantikküste auszuschalten und seine dort gebundenen Kräfte freizubekommen.

Im eigentlichen Boulogne, wo Stadt und Hafen völlig zerstört sind, ist der Kampf beendet, dagegen halten sich noch mehrere Stützpunkte südlich des Hafens gegen den Ansturm des Feindes. Im Vorfeld des befestigten Bereichs von Cap Gris Nez herrschte lebhafte beiderseitige Spähtrupp Tätigkeit. Die schweren Batterien „Todt“ und „Großer Kurfürst“ legten starkes Sperrfeuer auf vom Feind besetzte Orte und auf erkannte Bereitstellungen. Batterie „Todt“ beschoss außerdem die militärischen Anlagen von Dover und Folkestone, wo sich starke Rauchentwicklungen zeigten. Die Städte nebelten sich dann so stark ein, daß eine weitere Beobachtung des Schießens ausfiel.

Unsere Marinebatterien in Calais bekämpften mit heftigen Feuerschlägen feindliche Batteriestellungen, die daraufhin ihr Schießen einstellten. Gegen Stadt und Hafen Calais richteten sich am Sonnabend drei schwere Luftangriffe des Feindes, der anschließend im Schutze künstlichen Nebels die deutschen Stellungen zu stürmen versuchte. Ein örtlicher Einbruch in einen Stützpunkt war der einzige Erfolg des sehr starken Vorstoßes. Er wurde im Gegenangriff sofort wieder vereinigt. Vor Dünkirchen schob sich der Feind unter Artillerie- und Jagdbombereinsatz näher an unsere Hauptkampflinie heran. An der Atlantikküste scheiterten bei Lorient und Saint-Nazaire mehrere Vorstöße des Gegners, der hier empfindliche Verluste davontrug.

Die Verluste der Amerikaner auf Peleliu

Zu den schweren Verlusten der Amerikaner bei den heftigen Kämpfen auf Peleliu (Palau-Gruppe) wird ergänzend noch mitgeteilt, daß die Amerikaner in der Zeit vom 16. bis zum 22. September außer 5.000 Toten noch 7.400 Mann an Verwundeten verloren.

1905

Führer HQ (September 25, 1944)

Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht

In Westholland wehrten die eigenen Truppen in neuen Stellungen mehrere feindliche Angriffe ab. Im Raum Arnheim–Nimwegen fügten die Gegenangriffe dem aus der Luft gelandeten Feind, der noch nicht zum größeren Angriff antrat, weitere hohe Verluste zu. Örtliche Vorstöße des Gegners scheiterten zum Teil in erbitterten Nahkämpfen. Von den noch westlich Arnheim auf engstem Raum kämpfenden Resten der ersten englischen Luftlandedivision wurden weitere 800 Verwundete eingebracht, östlich Eindhoven erzielte der Feind geringen Geländegewinn.

Eigene Schlachtfliegerverbände griffen trotz schlechten Wetters erfolgreich in die Erdkämpfe in Holland ein.

Nördlich und südöstlich Aachen wurden Angriffe des Feindes unter Abschuß mehrerer Panzer abgewiesen. An der Eifel-Front verlor der Feind bei erfolglosen Angriffen 16 Panzer.

Nördlich Nancy und bei Château-Salins warfen eigene Angriffe den Feind trotz hartnäckigen Widerstandes zurück. Im Raum von Épinal und Remiremont hielten die schweren Kämpfe an. Bei erbittertem Widerstand der eigenen Truppen gewann der Angriff des Feindes nur örtlich an Boden.

Bei Dünkirchen und Calais beiderseitige lebhafte Artillerietätigkeit. Die kampfentschlossenen Besatzungen von Lorient und Saint-Nazaire zersprengten feindliche Angriffe und führten erfolgreiche Gegenstöße. Nach Vernichtung der letzten Stützpunkte ist die heldenhaft kämpfende Besatzung von Boulogne nach schwerstem Ringen der feindlichen Übermacht erlegen.

London lag in der vergangenen Nacht wieder unter dem Feuer der „V1.“

In Mittel-Italien setzte der Feind gestern seine schweren Panzerangriffe nordöstlich und östlich Fiorenzuola fort Er wurde fast überall abgewiesen und konnte nur einen inzwischen abgeriegelten Einbruch erzielen. 14 feindliche Panzer wurden abgeschossen.

An der Adria wurden unsere Truppen befehlsgemäß in neue Stellungen nordwestlich Riminis zurückgenommen. Hiergegen geführte zahlreiche Angriffe des Feindes wurden unter Abschuß von 35 Panzern zerschlagen.

Im südwestlichen Siebenbürgen kam es auch gestern nur zu Kämpfen örtlicher Bedeutung. Beiderseits Torenburg und im Nordteil des Szekler Zipfels wurden Angriffe bolschewistischer und rumänischer Verbände abgewiesen oder aufgefangen. In diesen Kämpfen verlor der Feind allein bei Torenburg 30 Panzer.

An den Beskidenpässen südlich Sanok und Krosno wurde gestern in Angriff und Abwehr mit wechselndem Erfolg gekämpft. Zwischen dem Nordrand der Karpaten und Mitau fanden keine wesentlichen Kampfhandlungen statt.

Im Raum südlich Riga warfen Truppen des Heeres und der Waffen-SS die Bolschewisten in erfolgreichen Gegenangriffen zurück. An der übrigen Front des Nordabschnittes verliefen die Absetzbewegungen weiter planmäßig. Der in mehreren Abschnitten nachdrängende Gegner konnte unsere Bewegungen nicht stören. Nach Zerstörung aller militärisch wichtigen Anlagen wurde vor einigen Tagen die Stadt Reval geräumt.

Unsere Absetzbewegungen nach Nordfinnland nehmen den genau vorbereiteten Verlauf.

Bei Prilep in Mazedonien wurde eine starke bulgarische Kräftegruppe bei geringen eigenen Verlusten zerschlagen. Sie ließ ihre gesamte Ausrüstung an Geschützen und schweren Waffen in unserer Hand. An der bulgarischen Westgrenze und am Eisernen Tor sind örtliche Kämpfe im Gange.

1906

Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (September 25, 1944)

FROM
(A) SHAEF FORWARD

ORIGINATOR
PRD, Communique Section

DATE-TIME OF ORIGIN
251100A Sept.

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(12) ADMIRALTY
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IN THE CLEAR

Communiqué No. 170

Fierce fighting continues in the Arnhem area where we have succeeded in passing some reinforcements to the north bank of the river under cover of darkness.

East of Nijmegen, Allied troops have entered German territory in the neighborhood of the Reichswald Forest.

The area north of Veghel, where enemy pressure was strong, has been cleared after the repulse of a counterattack from the village of Erp.

East of Eindhoven, our bridgehead over the Bois-le-Duc Canal was extended to the neighborhood of Deurne. Further west, we have pushed the retreating enemy from the Escaut Canal to the general line of the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal.

In the Geilenkirchen area, our troops met concentrated medium artillery fire, which was countered, and patrol activity continued in the sector. In the area of Roetgen, south of Aachen, one of our units reduced a German strongpoint, and slight gains were made against stubborn enemy resistance. A German counterattack was repulsed east of Aachen with heavy enemy losses.

In France, the Metz area, the enemy is still strongly entrenched on the west side of the Moselle River, and south of Metz, our troops are continuing to meet strong opposition.

Allied forces have cleared Leyr, eight miles northeast of Nancy, and are clearing the Forest of the Bois de Faulx and the Forêt de Champenoux, to the east of Nancy.

In the Meurthe Valley, our units have made further gains in the Forêt de Mondon, northwest of Baccarat.

Enemy fortified positions at Calais were attacked early yesterday evening by heavy bombers.

Support for the ground forces in Holland and eastern France was provided by fighters and fighter bombers, which attacked tanks and armored vehicles near Nancy and mortar positions and infantry in the Arnhem area.

Locomotives, railway trucks and motor transport in Holland were also attacked by fighters.

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1907

U.S. Navy Department (September 25, 1944)

CINCPAC Communiqué No. 131

Units of the 1st Marine Division maneuvered so as to bypass enemy strongpoints on Peleliu Island and made substantial progress in a northerly direction along the western arm of the island during September 24 (West Longitude Date). At one point on the western shore, they are less than a mile from the northern tip of the island. During the night of September 23-24, an enemy barge was destroyed by naval gunfire. Certain elements of the 81st Infantry Division have reinforced the 1st Marine Division, while other elements are continuing to mop up on Angaur Island. Through September 24, our troops had counted 8,288 enemy dead, of which 7,313 were killed on Peleliu and the remainder of 975 killed on Angaur. Heavy fighting continues.

Harbor facilities and shipping at Chichijima in the Bonin Islands were bombed on September 23 by 7th Army Air Force Liberators.

Seventh Army Air Force Liberators bombed Marcus Island on September 22 and again on September 23.

On September 23, Corsairs of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing strafed gun emplacements at Rota Island in the Marianas. There was meager anti­aircraft fire.

Bivouac areas at Jaluit Atoll were attacked twice on September 23 by Corsairs and Dauntless dive bombers of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing. Other Corsairs struck at defensive positions at Wotje Atoll and Mille Atoll on the same day.

1908

The Pittsburgh Press (September 25, 1944)

GUNS, BOMBS RIP RHINELAND
Reinforcements reach paratroops in pocket

Underground in Reich ordered to immediate action against Nazis
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer

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1909

Navy smashes 103 Jap ships, 405 aircraft

Manila area blasted again by Third Fleet
By Frank Tremaine, United Press staff writer

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1910

1,200 Flying Fortresses hit three Nazi cities

Near record force hammers Rhineland

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1911

Americans seize Apennine Pass

Drive down slopes into Po Valley

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1912

americavotes1944

‘Who’s a liar?’
Bitter words due to fly in vote drives

Dewey to answer Roosevelt tonight
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer

Russians publish Roosevelt speech

London, England (UP) –
Radio Moscow said that President Roosevelt’s campaign speech was published today in the newspaper Pravda.

Washington –
President Roosevelt and Governor Thomas E. Dewey are about to jolt the electorate wide awake in the next six weeks with a campaign of extraordinary bitterness likely to be marked by ejaculations of “who’s a liar?” and “you’re another.”

Mr. Roosevelt’s political advisers were enthusiastic over the sound and reception of his Saturday speech here to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) in which he charged Governor Dewey with lying in the Nazi pattern in his attacks on administration policy.

Dewey answers

Governor Dewey came back in a statement from Belen, New Mexico, in which he said:

Since the man who wants to be President for 16 years has now dropped the mask for a non-political campaign… I shall feel free to examine his record with unvarnished candor in the future, beginning with a national broadcast from Oklahoma City tonight.

Governor Dewey’s address tonight will be broadcast at 10:00 p.m. ET over KDKA and KQV.

Unless the President abruptly changes the tenor of his campaign and Governor Dewey backs away from the implications of his own statement, the 1944 presidential campaign will be one to be remembered for ill-feeling.

On his arrival this morning in Oklahoma City, Governor Dewey, aroused by President Roosevelt’s use of “epithets and mudslinging” in his opening campaign speech Saturday night, promised to deal with the President’s speech “point by point” in his own address from here tonight. He said he thought it was a “tragedy” that a “nominee for President finds it necessary to bolster a waning cause by importation of the language of our enemies and sinking to the level of mudslinging and the use of such words as ‘fraud and falsehood.’”

Candidates get jitters

It is logical to expect, also, that within another fortnight the actions of both candidates will be affected noticeably by the gnawing doubts which afflict statement as polling day approaches.

It is a matter for laughing recollection among persons closely associated with Mr. Roosevelt’s 1936 and 1940 campaigns that Democratic Headquarters began to get jittery in early October of those years. It was about then four years ago that the President abandoned his no-campaign program to embark on the inspection tours of national defense plants which Republicans so bitterly assailed as campaigns in disguise.

Next speech Oct. 5

This year, Mr. Roosevelt has said that he will not campaign for reelection “in the usual sense.” His advisers, however, will press for an active campaign. As the days pass, the pressure will increase, especially for Mr. Roosevelt to show himself in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. If they can get him to Detroit, so much the better. The only future speaking engagement so far announced is a broadcast from here Oct. 5.

Governor Dewey’s next swing will take him into New England. And there are reports that Mr. Roosevelt is also urged to speak in Massachusetts.

After his New England tour, Governor Dewey will make a swing into the rich and political potent Lake states, just where many of the President’s advisers believe he should go, too.

At this early stage of the political contest, the bitter feeling already approaches that of the final week before election.

Republicans find comfort in the fact that, in the President’s first political address he found it necessary to answer Governor Dewey on several points, notably the charge that he was an indispensable man that the administration intended to retard discharge of war veterans, that the Roosevelt administration was responsible for depression. And it was noted, too, that the President resurrected the “New Deal,” a descriptive phrase which he told press conference listeners last winter had been outgrown and outmoded.

Democrats assessed the speech as a bell ringer that formally opened Mr. Roosevelt’s fourth term effort with a spectacular whoosh. Veterans of the Roosevelt press conferences have rarely seen him in better spirits than on last Friday when he was turning all his attention to his campaign.

He frankly explained that he was putting a lot of work on the speech. It was observed, too, that Robert E. Sherwood, one of the ablest collaborators in preparation of Mr. Roosevelt’s state papers, had returned from England and was being seen around the White House.

1913

Churchill in England

London, England –
Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston Churchill have returned to England from the Québec Conference.

1914

americavotes1944

parry3

I DARE SAY —
Let’s get down to cases

By Florence Fisher Parry

Now really! We are not going to have accept Orson, too! The public’s capacity for practically anything has been considerably enlarged to meet the presidential campaign from both quarters, but I think this is just a leelte but too much to expect it to absorb.

Or are we to accept the choice of Mr. Orson Welles for the conspicuous role of introducing Mr. Henry Wallace to the Madison Square Garden Party rally last Thursday night as further indication of the New Deal’s bland assumption that the public is ignorant anyway?

When I tuned in to the mellifluous voice the other night and it finally dawned on me that it […] Orson introducing […] one of the biggest Democratic political rallies of the presidential campaign, I simply couldn’t believe it.

Orson? Who is a preposterous figure even on the corner of Hollywood and Vine? For him to be elevated to the platform of any political rally is an incongruity which was enough to put a strain on the credulity of the most cynical anti-New Dealer.

You may have read not more than a week ago of the party that Orson threw in Hollywood. And was it a party! The Borgias would have stood goggle-eyed at its weird and lurid extravagance.

Some of this off-the-beam genius for extravagance and hyperbole entered into a notable radio broadcast which the United States Treasury commissioned Orson to write for the opening radio program of the Fifth War Loan Drive. Those of us who heard this broadcast will not soon forget it! Remember the dialog between the old-timer and our Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Morgenthau? This radio broadcast hit the all-time corny in radio entertainment.

OK by me!

So, it cannot be claimed by the New Dealers that they are not wholly familiar with Orson’s brand of genius, character and technique. In spite of this, however, he was the chosen one to introduce Mr. Wallace.

Mind you, this is OK by me. But that it should be OK by our candidate for a fourth term is something to ponder. Surely, we should count on more dignity in campaigning than that.

I listened to every word of Orson and the defender of the New Deal faith, Mr. Wallace. As a matter of fact, I have listened to every radio speech of the present Democratic campaign. I even restrained myself from tuning out Mr. Ickes.

I try to hear all of Governor Dewey’s speeches, but if they collide with a New Deal speaker, sorry, I will just have to read the text of Mr. Dewey’s speech the next day.

The weakest thing about this whole campaign is that each party keeps spending its breath on its own disciples and converts. This was done in the last presidential campaign. The Willkie-ites talked to Willkie-ites, and the Roosevelt-ites talked to Roosevelt-ites. A house divided against itself will fall apart if the occupants of each leaning half cling only to their own walls. Governor Dewey spoke to 90,000 in Los Angeles. The total number isn’t important; the important thing is how many of those 90,000 were in the opposing camp and how many of them he could convert to his side.

Why not try this?

In Madison Square Garden, Vice President Wallace spoke to 20,000. It can be assumed that almost everyone present was already a New Dealer. It seems to me that if every person who makes up an audience of a major campaign speech would be pledged to bring with him someone from the opposing party, then we might get somewhere. Then, truly, the American populace might be informed!

I see all too many Republicans tune out a Democratic speech. I see too many New Dealers refuse to listen to any Republican campaigner. Here is where reform is needed. Here is where the weight of propaganda should work. By whatever device, by whatever persuasion, Republican workers in the field should make a Democrat listen to or read a Republican argument. By whatever device or recourse, a New Dealer should make a Republican listen to a New Deal argument.

Then and then only will our people make up their own minds. Then and then only can mass voting be broken up and the shameful machineries of racketeer politics be weakened.

1915

Reich’s fate still studied, Hull insists

Cabinet officer silent on dispute

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