Dewey's Ersatz Internationalism
Dewey's Ersatz Internationalism ytepuHtcan Isolationism Masquerades Under false Colors By Dean Alfange A S candidate for the Republican f\ nomination fur President, «¦*¦ Wendell Willkie atumped...
...That meant Willkie was the enemy.of the Old Guard Republican machine...
...and Bethlehem Steel Corp...
...The />«ii> Bxorttt frankly admit* it* disappointment, ft had hoped, it said, that "'with it* huge...
...kindly but senile aid gentlemen who eeekt to buy the good will of his poor relatione kg giving away the dwindling remarne of kii youthful eamingt...
...If you really want international cooperation, if you want to avert another Harding fraud and a third World War, vote for a real internationalist—Franklin I>rinrni Roosevelt...
...It "is the Brooks and the Wileys the Tobeys an I the Tafts all of them supported by Dewey—who will play the role of hatchet-men to kill any United Nations plan for peace through international collaboration, in the event of Dewey's election...
...But these clever politicians from Chicago know that Dewey's recantation was mere formalism—extorted from him by the political exigencies of the day...
...The letter said that many American companies "were fearful of labor difficulties in the event that their woi kmen learn that the materials on which they are working are destined for shipment to Japan...
...He has been honored with an escort chosen from (lie highest brackets of midwest isolationism...
...Said he, in a speech on "Kmployment in the Postwar Era," after a glowing tribute to Dewey...
...Attorney* for American Bosch replied that they would nave to asu uie consent of Robert Bosch in Berlin before they could grant the permission requested...
...Dewey's Ersatz Internationalism ytepuHtcan Isolationism Masquerades Under false Colors By Dean Alfange A S candidate for the Republican f\ nomination fur President, «¦*¦ Wendell Willkie atumped the Middle Weet — first in Wisconsin and then in Nebraska — spreading the gospel of international cooperation for the establishment and maintenance of peace and prosperity among the nations at the world...
...His path has been strewn with flowers...
...Washington observers.point out that despite the domestic anti-trust policy, the government at present has not adopted a policy to guide post-war action on this problem...
...So overwhelming aad devastating was the attack, and so effective were they in poisoning the minds of Republican voters, that immediately after the Wisconsin primary Willkie became convinced that he could not receive the GOP nomination and formally withdrew...
...That was the gibe of an isolationist, an old stock gag that we have been reading for years in Hearst and Doily Newt editorials...
...In the very same hour that Dewey was pledging non-partisan cooperation with Secretary Hull at the international peace conference at Dumbarton Oaks, this man Schroeder was bringing down the house with the pronouncement that it was the New Deal that got us into this war, the implication beint...
...That is one of the favorite ribaldries with which old hoe isolationist Congressmen and Senators have been besmirching the pages of the Congreeeional Record ever since isolationism has been a political iasue...
...Testimony charged that the patent cartel witheld similar information from American companies...
...For now and then out of the dullness and darkness of the speech there came lightning flashes that revealed Dewey the isolationist...
...Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge of the Department of Justice and James S. Martin of the Division of Economic Warfare of the Department of Justice, presented the main testimony on the actions of American corporations...
...net Bale, that the reasons so cogently advanced m the newspaper woo Id have had seme effect in convincing public opinion of the virtue* of private enterprise...
...This testimony, it is predicted, may lay the groundwork for a development of an American policy at future international conferences that try to deal with cartel arrangement* between nations...
...The Navy had asked the American Bosch Co...
...After he had spoken the piece he came to Louisville chiefly to speak—the declaration of carefully qualified allegiance to the Dumbarton Oaks Conference—recited *o catch the Willkie vote—Dewey relaxed, and in that moment of relaxation he indulged in the following pleasantry: »' "Tkrg propoee" laughed Dewey, referring to the Sooaeetit foreign policiee...
...to grant a sub-license to the Caterpillar Tractor Co...
...On the question of nationalization of coal, the basic raw material produced by England, two-thirds of those queried said that the mine* should be taken over by the government...
...made agreements with Japanese and German companies under domination of fheir respective governments to (1) limit American production...
...Now if Dewey is really sincere in his advocacy ot international collaboration why does he not declare for treaty ratification by a simple Senate majority as Wendell .Willkie did...
...But Dewey is no enemy, but a friend, who is at heart a fellow-isolationist...
...It was Cordell Hull who took the unprecedented steps to put the Dumbarton Oaks conference on a non-partisan basis by inviting the Republican nominee to participate in the preliminary discussions, though Dewey had previously done his utmost to wreck that conference for purely partisan reasons...
...II avoid the "moral embargo" against supplying Japanese war-lords with arms...
...The letter further informed the Tokio office that both CIO and AFL had gone on record as opposing the sending of war goods to Japan...
...W Va...
...True, indiscreet recognition of the national trend away from isolationism, and as a shrewd move in pursuit of the Willkie vote, he seemingly renounced his former faith in the isolationist creed of Harding and Hoover...
...When Dewey made that statement he put the truth in reverse gear...
...Why does Dewey not repudiste the support of the McCormicks, Brooks, Wileys, Tobeys and Tafts, as well as that of Gerald L. K. Smith and other fascists, semi fascists, and anti-Semites...
...that if we could ) only get rid of Roosevelt, we would need no peace organization at all...
...The testimony revealed that American corporations notably, Bendix Aviation Corporation, Sperry Gyroscope Co...
...to manufacture parts produced under patent by Bosch...
...No, we do not want the soldiers to remain in a uniformed WPA...
...Inc., the American Bosch Co...
...We do not want any gigantic WPA when the men come back...
...These two Republican Senators are notorious throughout the entire country and many parts of the world as the top-flight champions of isolationism in the Senate...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp, and a big patent cartel in the U. S. was charged with using subterfuges to supply the Japanese with vital aviation parts and information on the production of high octane aviation gasoline...
...During that campaign Willkie received a terrific beating at the hands of the Republican machine...
...his eyes gladdened with the glitter of Republican machine made rallies, his ears thrilled with the pulsations ol martial bands blaring out the blessings of Joe Pew and the Sun Oil Company...
...Now, what is the reason for the difference in treatment accorded these two Republicans Wendell Willkie and Thomas Dewey—by the arch-isolationist, superreactionary Republican machine...
...On the very day of the Louisville speech, two isolationist Senators on the floor of Congress hsd pulled this same stale WPA gag...
...Krom She eay ne set soot in Wisconsin me republican bouses «f that region turned upon him through the columns of their press, led by McCormick's Chicago Tribune, a torrential stream of foul abuse...
...So, naturally, they fought Willkie, and because this Republican machine controlled Republican politics, they beat him...
...We do not want it dressed up in soldiers' uniforms but still the WPA, because that is the cheapest kind of a WPA...
...they vropote to bny them$ehe» international power ont of our poeketbooki . . . tkey now talk glibly »f an American WPA for all the rent *f (he world...
...The answer, I think, is plain...
...Bendix, Bethlehem Steel Aided Axis via Cartels WASHINGTON, D. C. (LPA).—Startling testimony of how certain American corporations helped to rearm Germany in violation of provisions in the Versailles Treaty and helped to arm Japan was heard recently by a subcommittee of the Senate Military Affairs Committee haaded by Senator llarley M. Kilgore (Deni...
...SI per cent took the same view about the railways...
...Why does he not endorse Willkie's propossl to empower the President to use United Ststes forces to keep the pesre without the prior consent of Congress...
...If they had suffered any doubts in this regard, the Louisville speech would have dispelled them...
...Their theory was epitomized by Vice-President Wallace, a recent White House guest, when he advocated a quart of milk a day for all the underprivileged races of the world...
...Britons Favor Socialization The London tkdlg Bxgrett, Lord Beaverbrook's paper, whose S.0OO.OS0 circulation makes it one of the largest in the world, has found through s poll conducted among British citizens that the average man-in the street favors socialization of key enterprises...
...They know that Dewey is still their man...
...It it for thee* reaeone that I have taken unprecedented etepi to put the pretent conferencee at Dumbarton Oake on u non partisan bane...
...In the case of Willkie these people knew that they Were confronting a genuine, a fervent, and a powerful apostle of international cooperation and a bitter enemy of isolationism...
...Evidence was introduced in the committee's record that Dul'ont interest* stand ready to renew their prewar agreements with German linns as soon as possible after the end of the war...
...4) arrange to renew cartel agreements if disrupted by war...
...So don't be fooled by false labels, by empty words snd high-sounding phrase...
...But, unlike Will kie, thia man, instead of being subjected to a torrent of revilement and derision, instead of being followed for every step of his journey by a howling mob of Republican machine gangsters from Chicago pelting him with stones and mud, he has been given the welcome of a conquering hero...
...Senator Wiley of Wisconsin chimed in with the same merry tune...
...To hear them talk, Uncle Sam must play the role of the...
...2> "sabotage the effectiveneas of the Versailles Peace Treaty," permitting the Nazis secretly to rearm Germany...
...Shortly after the opening of the Senate on September 8, Senator Brooks of Illinois, in a speech attacking the Administration on the subject of American postwar lubber production, said: "There are among us global do gooders who would am lender America's synthetic rubber industry...
...Testimony by James B. Adams of Martin's division told how the cartel arrangement between American Bosch arid its German connection almost hamstrung American Diesel engine production...
...In Chicago Colonel McCormick said in the editorial leader of his Chicago Tribune: "Governor Dewey'.s opening campaign speech was the most powerful message of hope that the American people have received in more than a decade...
...Listen to what Dewey had the effrontery to say at Portland, Oregon: "It ie my hope . . . that American foreign policy will alwaye be non-parliean...
...Among those who spoke with him from the platform at Louisville Was Werner W. Schroeder of Illinois, vice-chairman of the Republican National Committee, one of the head hatchet-men for Robert A. McCormick of the Chicago jyihune...
...They are the advocates of an international WPA to be financed by Uncle Sam...
...Msrtin's testimony revealed the discrepancy between the attitude of American labor and American business by quoting a letter written by the New York office of the Mitsubishi Trading Company to its Tokio headquarters in February 1939...
...Lately we have been witness to a strange spectacle Parroting Willkie, Tom Dewey has proclaimed hn devotion to the causa of world organisation for the peace and welfare of mankind...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 41
