Capital Comment
STOUT, JONATHAN
Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—If the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee had not voted * to-1 this week tt dree ite formal investigation of. the noted Battle of tke...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt and the men about him represent a record of past progress...
...Such intelligent plans as that of James G. Palton of the National Farmers' Union for a capital budget which will provide for spending enough each year to supplement private investment and raise the income level of the people are not presented or debated by either side...
...Jim admitted the **** af superior argument and, with a bow, withdrew *«_«asstion...
...Carey asked her what she did to get **** ««d at hsr...
...That opportunity is expected to arise •sea Gob...
...So The New Leader ssya—Vote roomvu, And in New York State vote the Liberal Party line, Row F...
...Uwy are not talking for publication, Repub*•» Party strategists privately admit jMwebig surprise of ••^¦Ptign so far is ^•"Poctedly largo "fwation and that it ***** Hka bad news j» their candidate...
...With Roosevelt in the chair, the labor and liberal forces, which have been the major organisers of his campaign, can have a voice in influencing the administration policies...
...Merrill thought Murray ought J» Irs her, democratically, of course...
...There will be a Senate isvesugauon...
...MedigHaai and Silone, leaders of Kalian Social Basset racy, have reached liberated Italian soil...
...far tke present Silone ia the one who is laklaf active leadership in rallying the people to ItsKsa Social Ueasocrsrv ¦y • : * * « Fenaal recognition of De Gaulle's government by the I'srte* States aa the provisional government of France a decided, and only awaits the appropriate occasion to I* saaouaced...
...Both candidates seem to feel that the postwar economy should be left in the hands of business...
...Dewey has not taken issue with the nation's labor and social security laws...
...And it must be acknowledged that the Dumbarton Oaks sketches for the world set-up seem to foreshadow this sort of future...
...Hbw about colonial Imperialism ? I Yet - despite the unaatisfactoi ineas of the campaign on both sides—tv* ehoott Roo»*vtlt...
...a document America's Monopolies ** AurHOMAwt tabu The Balance Sheet of the War Daniel Bell Gentlemen, There Are Campaign Issues TlIK political campaign approaches its conclusion, yet from all the welter of words no clear issues have emerged...
...They are built into the fabric of our life...
...i*wis Merrill, CIO United Office and Professional Werkers Union Communist president, who tells folks at believes in democracy, complained bitterly to Phil Htnay that LtBaron Stinnett organized an anti-Comcaucus against his Communist caucus at the r«*"t union convention...
...His entire campaign has been based on the phony issue of I'AC and a dangerous, catch-all device of championing the grudges and gripes of petty elements...
...It is tied In with the problems of international relations, capital budgets, and large standing armies...
...J» ; I. • • ? Tke representatives of the Polish-Americsn organi•atieas who saw President Roosevelt this week are now ••tkiog an appointment with Gov...
...Tom Dewey and his crowd represent the reactionary forces within the GOP...
...On the home sector there are the problems of: Jobs...
...On the other side of the fence, the President has been content to rest orfhis record, an impressive one compared with what Dewey has to offer...
...The Republican candidate, except for one stab in the direction of the Pacific campaign, has acknowledged that the conduct of the war is not to he challenged...
...Does the silence of both candidates indicate agreement and tacit consent...
...Already the race riots of Detroit snd New York have been forgotten...
...There- are vital issues before the public which need clarification...
...Dewey offers no such possibility...
...mark SHIR WIN Spanish Communist Fiasco ...jisusHHNANDEz...
...If each country is to grab, let us grab along with them...
...It is fashionable to say that we must be realistic...
...As a national debate, it is a sorry performance on both sides...
...Race...
...Eisenhower formally turns over to the French for internal administration those areas which •Irsedy have boon liberated What is regarded here as ••Olfactory guarantees with respect to the French I'eauanniits preceded the rapprochement between the United States and Da Gaulle...
...Nalson Cruikshank has left the War atsaaewer Commission to become the AFI.'l Director aWaJ Insurance...
...The problems of minority tensions is grave...
...Argentina's 'Mad' Policy Felix J. Weil Dollars and Destiny in the Elections Wo/do Frank Nietzsche and Nazism............................osca* f*ankl Dewey's Jaeclcle .................................vimcint mono an Compulsory Voting...
...H conceded that if *N«ldent Roosevelt Mpjjimnigt incubus **»»round hia neck **srl Browder the...
...American recognition of D« (Senile will be simultaneous with that of the British...
...We live, we are told, in a world of great and ruthless powers...
...In thBleld of foreign policy there appears to be an area oywneral agreement between the two candidates, although The N*w York Tim**, the voice of respectable conservatism, feels that this ysar Mr...
...We may have.' to face the charge of forcing voters to settle the gravest of national problems under a deliberately produced smoke-screen of confusion...
...Both President Roosevelt and Candidate Dewey owe the American public a full and frank talk on how they envisage, the peace...
...Tom Dewey has stalked up and down the country making innumerable speeches, but they all add up to one point, a small boy's yah yah that "I can do it better than you can...
...for all pracf*1 Purposes, would f?*r now with Dewey a bad also-ran...
...Irs a matter of a month at most...
...He cannot...
...But in the era of demobilization, when Negroes are thrown out of work first, the smouldering hstreds will fisre into violence...
...Such a policy can lead only to war...
...On tee ether hand, Luigi Antonini, following his pre¦eatation of the Italian-American Labor Council's Four Freedoms Award to President Rooaevelt at the White Hmim Wednesday, lunched at the Statler with a large frwe of enthusiastic Roosevelt supporters, was served by, § waiter who announced his earnest admiration of Dewey, and nothing happened...
...LeBaron is Jim J7**'» Mcratary...
...His two major campaign efforts have been devoted to parrying the wild charges of his opponent...
...LeBaron replied: "As my eraJ*Tar, Mr...
...Roosevelt can be more ssfely trusted to organize and maintain the United Nations'security organization...
...No important campaigner has attempted to face the issue of how production is to be stepped up and jobs and markets assured...
...Dewey to discuss the mum subject...
...What shall we do with Germany ? How shall we guarantee the future freedom Poland or of any other small country or backward area...
...Postwar Conscription...
...1 project is to bring *FUupport solidly behind the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Health Insurance Bill____AFL membership now totals MeljOW, tt which 1,500,000 are currently in uniform...
...If that clarification is not made, we face the possibility of another disillusioned generation...
...But— V Power Politics is sn issue which we conceal at our peril...
...his No...
...They returned from their hiding place in SwitserIsad...
...Carey, it's none of your" business what I «t meetings of my union...
...Admittedly this Issue will be posed before the public—and soon...
...the noted Battle of tke Sutler, evidence would have been produced that one tf the two naval officers involved—a Southern Democrat —had aeqaired a reputation on hia ship for his loud and •ialant denunciations of the President...
...Neither candidate dares to issue a clear statement or announce an adequate program for fear of antagonising reactionary elements...
...Politics is a choice between realistic alternatives...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 43
