THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW WENDELL L. WILLKIE'S final campaign speech in Nebraska last week was devoted largely to a scorching attack on the Roosevelt Administration's fumbling foreign policy—a policy he...
...Hull Claims There Are No Secrets Hull's effort, a 45-minute address broadcast over the Columbia network, failed to silence some of the critics, many of whom pointed out that the Secretary of State was vague and evasive, that he failed to answer specific questions because the Administration has not worked out its answers, and that he ducked the opportunity to speak out for a peace settlement which would be anti-imperialist in character and would strengthen democratic forces in enemy and neutral nations...
...Bill of Rights...
...John Coffee, Washington Democrat, who quoted from the letters in Congress...
...Actually the Americans wanted to exhibit me in public charging an entrance fee to see me...
...Homer T. Bone, Washington Democrat whose term expires this year, to be judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
...We know that Washington wanted me delivered to America where the Americans wanted to stage a great war-guilt trial with me as victim," Mussolini said...
...Lieut...
...2. In an order which set aside previous and conflicting decisions, Hershey directed local draft boards to suspend induction of men 26 or older who are "making a contribution to essential agriculture, war production or supporting activities" until "substantially" all available younger men have been taken...
...It was apparent to seasoned observers as Willkie's speeches met with apathetic response that he could not capture a majority of the Republican Party's 24 delegates to the convention, but few if any guessed at the completeness of the slaughter...
...Sen...
...There is no single, simple answer...
...The rejection of Willkie, as even the Chicago Sun, which supported him, admitted, was not confined to the politicians, but included the rank-and-file—the plain people of the state...
...A. J. May, Kentucky Democrat who is chairman of the House Military Committee, predicted last week on the basis of Army estimates that the first month of the invasion of Europe will cost U. S. forces a maximum of 150,000 casualties, * * # Exhibit...
...Many persons, commenting on this freak newspaper line-up, said that the Roosevelt forces wanted Willkie because they knew he would be the easiest foe for the President...
...1. Draft calls must continue at present levels, it was said, to provide replacements...
...Deductions...
...3. The Office of War Information revealed that the Army has now attained its planned peak strength of 7,700,000 and the Navy is within 400,000 of the goal of 3,600,000 which it expects to attain by Sept...
...Willkie is still Wall Street and Wall Street is still poison to Wisconsin...
...The appointment was promptly and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, but a report that Sen...
...Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, announced that large monthly quotas of men will be drafted almost indefinitely and hinted that inductions might be required even after the war is won...
...Her letters have been intercepted, opened, and copied by U. S. Government agents...
...Campaigning in Nebraska, he announced: "It is obvious I cannot be nominated...
...Mussolini was rescued from Allied guards last September bjr daring German parachute troops...
...Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren charged last week that many war contractors masquerade as philanthropists by giving large donations to the Red Cross and other charities and then charging the amount to the Government as part of the cost of war contracts...
...This policy, he said, is openly formulated and neither he nor the President has made or will make "any secret agreement or commitment, political or financial...
...President Roosevelt last week rewarded one of the ablest and most progressive of the Democrats in Congress when he appointed Sen...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW WENDELL L. WILLKIE'S final campaign speech in Nebraska last week was devoted largely to a scorching attack on the Roosevelt Administration's fumbling foreign policy—a policy he insisted was causing "delay and uncertainty" in the prosecution of the war...
...They Just Couldn't Trust Him Why did Wisconsin give Willkie such a terrific mauling...
...The MacArthur results were regarded as a great personal tribute to the General since the campaign in his behalf was poorly managed and appeared to have little or no financial backing...
...Although the Secretary of State avoided the term, "Unconditional Surrender," the Roosevelt-Churchill war aim which has succeeded only in strengthening morale in Axis nations, he did not disavow it...
...Our voice in the establishment of peace will be heard only as it is backed by military strength," fee said...
...Encouragement will be given to the establishment of "strong and progressive national governments, dedicated like our own to improving the social welfare of our people as a whole...
...Roosevelt struck back at his critics at a recent press conference, but confined his remarks to glittering generalities...
...Clyde Reed, Kansas Republican, demanded a Senate investigation of the Government leak, and Censorship Director Byron Price announced that he would be "glad to cooperate" with such an investigation and in fact he is "more anxious than any Senate committee to find out who was faithless in this trust...
...A poll of public opinion by the National Opinion Research Center showed that only 23 per cent of people queried indicated that they had a reasonably accurate idea of the content of the Bill of Rights—the first 10 amendments to the Constitution...
...This suspicion was heightened by the fact that while the bulk of his press support came from Tory dailies, he had the backing of two Roosevelt newspapers as well...
...Although many an American does not endorse Willkie's rampant internationalism, a fact partly confirmed in Wisconsin last week (see column three), the nation generally does share Willkie's concern over the planless drifting of the Administration in the realm of foreign affairs...
...Stassen forces had put on a vigorous campaign and spent a large chunk of money...
...They voted against WiHkie largely because they didn't believe or trust him...
...Harold Stassen, who is on leave as governor of Minnesota, won three delegates, while Gen...
...He revealed that "much of the work of formulating plans for the organization to maintain peace has been accomplished," and he announced that he has asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to set up a bipartisan subcommittee to consult with the State Department...
...Vivien Kellems, Westport, Conn., war goods manufacturer, has been writing letters, including love notes, to Count Frederick Karl von Zed-litz, said to be a Nazi agent in Argentina...
...Many of the state's Tory newspapers went to bat for him...
...Casualties...
...Last week he sent his Secretary of State, 73-year-old Cordeii Hull, to the firing line with a 5,000-word defense of the Administration's policy...
...Willkie had worked hard in Wisconsin because he knew the outcome could make or break his candidacy for President...
...Hull appealed for unity behind the Administration's program...
...On the other hand, he did say that the Administration's policy will be "to give full scope to men and women who look forward, men and women who will end Fascism and all its works and create the institutions of a free and democratic way of life...
...His organization spent money on a lavish scale...
...They felt that he talked too much and said too little, that he talked liberalism because he was in the Progressive state of Wisconsin, that he had changed political stripes too often and could not be trusted to keep his word...
...Willkie's failure to win a single delegate resulted in his withdrawal from the race...
...Most troops today carry too much equipment, thus violating, he said, a basic rule of warfare—simplicity...
...Thomas E. Dewey captured 15 of the 24 delegate posts and appeared to have increased the total to 18 as three victorious delegates who were uninstructed indicated they favored Dewey...
...Great pressure was exerted on Progressives to vote for him, and one editor whose paper reaches a sizeable Progressive audience went so far as to compare the Wall Street lawyer with the state's political idol, the late Robert M. La Follette, Sr...
...Wisconsin Mauls Willkie The decisive drubbing which Wisconsin gave Wendell L. Willkie was, of course, the biggest political news of the campaign thus far...
...The nation was shocked last week—not because her mail was under Federal scrutiny— but because her letters found their way into the hands of Drew Pearson, gossip columnist, who promptly published them, and Rep...
...Benito Mussolini, the almost forgotten man of World War II, believes that he would have been publicly exhibited in the United States before going on trial as a war criminal had he been delivered to the Allies as planned, according to an exclusive interview published in the Hamburg Frem-denblatt recently...
...Names And Notes In The News Mail Leak...
...On foreign policy, many Wisconsin voters who desire genuine cooperation with other nations to enforce an honorable peace settlement could not shake the impression that Willkie's internationalism was the type that would commit the United States to enforce a reactionary status quo around the world and involve the country in what they thought was an "America Last" foreign program...
...John M. Costello, California Democrat, chairman of a special House committee investigating the problem, issued a statement emphasizing that the committee is opposed to the forced drafting of labor to meet manpower shortages...
...Hull insisted, in replying to recent criticism, that the Administration has a definite, well-integrated, and consistent policy to abolish Nazism and Fascism and establish world peace through an organization of nations...
...Despite this last assurance, Hull proceeded to analyze and interpret the Atlantic Charter in such a way as to confirm the fear that the Administration has secretly agreed to drastic modification of the Charter's meager enough provisions for a democratic peace settlement...
...The "trust" was in the form of "pledges made repeatedly to me by Government agencies that such mail would not be allowed to fall in anybody else's hands...
...Simplicity...
...Comdr...
...That President Roosevelt and his associates are acutelv aware of' the mounting criticism of their policies has been clear for several weeks...
...The vote showed that even though he had publicly repudiated delegates running in his behalf and declared he was not a candidate, New York's Gov...
...There were other factors, too...
...William Langer, North Dakota Republican, characterized the treatment of Miss Kellems as "outrageous," adding: "I believe it is most unfortunate, regardless of the merits of the controversy, that the impression should be allowed to get out—as it has— that the public mails have been tampered with...
...The Charter, said Hull, is designed to serve as a guide and not as a fixed declaration or a specific code of law...
...Bone may continue in office until the November elections, thus depriving the Republican governor of an opportunity to appoint his successor, led to a GOP demand that Bone take his new post now...
...4. Although pressure to force 4-F's into war industry continued, Rep...
...Joseph W. Stilwell, plain-spoken U. S. commander in Burma, said last week that wars are won "not with weapons, but with guts, push, speed, and surprise...
...Then, too, there was a widespread feeling that he was "too much like Roosevelt," that his nomination would rob the country of a choice in November...
...Appointment...
...Manpower Developments The nation's manpower muddle continued during the past week, but these major developments threw some light on the shape of events to come: 1. Maj...
...Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific, won three delegates, including one of the four elected at large by the entire state...
Vol. 8 • April 1944 • No. 16
