GOP criticizes conduct of war
New Deal is accused of political meddling
Chicago, Illinois (AP) –
Governor Dwight H. Green of Illinois today accused the Roosevelt administration of “political meddling” with Army and Navy heads in the conduct of the war and pledged that the Republicans, if victorious in November, will give the professional fighting men a free hand.
Welcoming the delegates to the Republican National Convention, Governor Green denounced “New Dealers” as seeking to remain in power on a “Win the War” slogan and asserted:
The winning of the war is uppermost in the mind of every American… There is no “Win the War” Party in America and public opinion has so properly rebuked the attempts of the New Dealers to grab that slogan that they have almost completely abandoned it.
He said a Republican triumph this year would “strike dread into the hearts of the enemy.”
Green said:
They will know that the government of this nation has passed into the hands of men determined to cut all the red tape and bureaucratic inference with the trained leaders of the United States Army and Navy. Those officers will have in the conduct of the war the unstinted support of the Republican administration, free from political meddling of second-string bureaucrats.
He praised the delegates as “unswayed by the weird pretense that an ‘indispensable man’ exists,” and said they were dedicated to work not only for “the heralded objectives of the ‘Four Freedoms,’ but resolved to reestablish here in America the 33 freedoms guaranteed to all citizens under the Constitution.”