Capital Comment
STOUT, JONATHAN
CapitalComment ByJONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—Tht No. 1 political question f|it week ia informed circlet hen it "Who will control tfce Beat House of Representatives the Democrats or BfwMieantt"...
...The experts pointed out ways in which (he new laws could be improved and extended...
...too, had his red scare as the final appeal to the timid and jittery voter...
...Tho one-third of the nation was still "ill-ftd, ill-housed, ill-dad...
...4 . . Frit* for the outttanding political boner of the cam paign may be awarded Democratic vice-presidential eaadidata Harry Truman for his gratuitous and ill-tiitd tlas...
...It it now conceded that Roosevelt will win tad that the Democrat* will retain control of tht Senate for the all-important peace and treaty making period...
...who a»»f sworn allegiance to new Italian government from ¦**aent category to that of co-belligerents has been tor-dadoed by opposition of Soviet Union...
...I .and.in...
...ult: no tires, no autos...
...I.andon and Dewey are conservative in every habit, every fiber, every emotion...
...From there on the attack wat bated on what wtre presented at the inadequacies of the Roosevelt leadership...
...who have taken the pledge to Italy so they might carry en fight to clear Italian soil of Nazi invaders...
...Dewey's bright high-school oratory...
...When full story eat be revealed "clash of personalities" will be found based on lack of political judgment by American ad Titers on China . . . and failure of Americans to guarantee Chiang military support against threatening Chinese communist armies if he stripped Chinese Republic's defenses against Chinese Red Army and threw them into light against Japs as Stilwell demanded...
...at Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Walsh which hat caused deep resentment in Bay State...
...The officials of the Foundation later revealed that the report contained a ringing corn-.....inn of the law as a substantial beginning of a social security program...
...But it is still the same old story...
...Small wonder that the Dewey campaign has failed...
...Whether Bob Hannegan remains aa chairman of Democratic National Committee rtttt on what Missouri does Election Day...
...Plan proposed in high quarters in Washington to change status of Italian prisoners of war in U.S...
...Willkie did not stoop to tht pretense that Roosevelt had started the deprettion...
...Because the name of a Polish Jew appeared on the ballot President Roosevelt was plainly allied, with all the powera of hell...
...There were still 9,000,000 workers unemployed at real jobt...
...Expectations of immediate resumption of civilian production •fter Germany surrenders are largely commercial...
...in •MO, according to government estimates...
...The campaign took place immediately after the fall of Fiance, but one of Willkle's chief points wat that we ttill had no adequate army or armaments...
...We heard it badly said in 1936, much betttr said in 1940— and new the records ire being refurbithed with all the charms of Mr...
...No public mention hat yet been made of a simpler solution to problem—that of getting Stalin to call off Chinese Red A rniy's hostile acts against Chinese Republic...
...Postwar employment will have to provide jobs for 6,000,<K)0 more workers than were employed in U.S...
...He supported with equal enthusiasm our aid to Britain and the Roosevelt animosity toward the Axis powert...
...And lie did not content himself with saying, "Give industry the green light...
...But in three successive campaigns they have failed to do this...
...In 1940 Wendell Willkie started off with ringing approval for "collective bargaining," social security, a floor under wages, a ceiling on hours...
...Candidate Alfred M. I.andon secured an advance copy of the report...
...In that case look for the award to be made by An Eminent Person...
...But it was not Sidney Hill-man who served as symbol of foreign control—it was David Dubinsky...
...no autos, no jobs in Detroit...
...And Mr...
...All EeHtwri.l— The GOP Refrain—We've Heard It Before TlIK saddest thing about the campaign of Thomas E. Dewey is that we have heard it all before...
...American •«*a was to return about 36,000 of the Italian soldier...
...On tht other hand, official Washington begins to give evidence of exasperation at unending Russian demand* for appeasement—or else...
...If GOP candidates honektly represented conservative principles, they might serve a good purpose...
...and Soviet Union dropping to new low as a result of Stalin's attempt to torpedo international aviation conference at Chicago, pet U.S...
...There were no perversions of fact either by misquotation, partial quotation or otherwise...
...The whole tubstance and manner of it it false and phony— and, wortt ttill from the propaganda point of view, it it threadbare and bora-some...
...Clash of personalities" has the virtue of vagueness aa sn explanation of ouster of Gen...
...but what's ,*»t use until rubber plants can turn out tires, whjch is what they can't do because of rubber shortage...
...In 19,16 the high point of the I.andon campaign was an attack upon the recently passed Social Security Act...
...A presidential elector has only formal duties, yet that name became a battle cry in the campaign...
...Wendell Willkie failed to do it because he was not really a conservative...
...Tit-for-tat has been given already, with U.S...
...project for peaceful organization of postwar world . . . Russian 'pull-out on an almost insultingly phoney pretext on eve of conference is regarded in qualified circles here at an overt act—the first pulled with public brazenness by the Russians—which may have far-reaching diplomatic repercussions...
...with diplomatic relations between U.S...
...Joseph W. Stilwell, U. S. commander in China-Burma-India theater, on demand of Gen...
...Awarding of price depends on whether boner Badges Massachusetts out of Roosevelt column ^November 7...
...publicly announcing support of Iranian refusal to give Russians oil concessions...
...Tho present outcry over Sidney Hillman will sound just as funny a year from now...
...It sounds funny now...
...Foreshadowing Governor Dewey'a technique, he carefully excerpted passages emphasizing the New Deal law's shortcomings and made these the basis of a thundering attack...
...Autp plants, for instance, might get going...
...Chiang Kai-shek...
...Reports reaching Washington say that unpopularity of Hannegan machine in Missouri is what's keeping that state in tho doubtful column...
...In two points Willkie't campaign wat carried on at a level high above that reached by Dewey...
...Yet they mouth New Deal phrases in an effort to conceal reactionary purpose...
...Another large-scale postwar headache for labor •ill be jurisdictional tangles as result of switches in Opes of production by unionized factories in the process of conversion to war production...
...The Twentieth Century Foundation had instituted an expert examination of the operation of the new security system...
...The -name of the II,GWU leader was on the long list of presidential electors from New York Stale...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 45
