The Pittsburgh Press (September 24, 1944)
Bricker to speak in Connecticut
World court urged in his Boston speech
Norwalk, Connecticut (UP) – (Sept. 23)
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, Republican vice-presidential nominee, came here tonight for his last speaking engagement on his 3,250-mile eastern campaign swing through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Connecticut Governor Raymond E. Baldwin boarded the Bricker train at New London, Connecticut, and accompanied the governor to the home of Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, Republican congresswoman.
Calls for cooperation
Earlier at Boston, Mr. Bricker told the Massachusetts State Republican Convention that the United States must cooperate with other nations in the post-war era and use force if necessary, to prevent a third world war should “moral persuasion or economic pressure” fail.
The United States, Mr. Bricker said, should “take the leadership among the nations of the world in organizing to preserve the peace.”
Mr. Bricker said:
The United States has always had a tremendous stake in world order and stability, yet we have not kept ourselves alert to developments threatening peace and world order. We have not kept ourselves prepared to cope with them when they attained world-shaking proportions.
Expediency is charged
The administration’s international policy, he said, has been ruled by “day-by-day expediency.” America sent money to China while sending war material to Japan, he said. Hitler seized power in Germany at the same time the New Deal entered office, he added, but the administration did nothing to keep “orderly peace” in the world.
Mr. Bricker proposed that a World Court be established “wherein justiciable questions will be decided” and adequate machinery created for arbitration and conciliation of international disputes.