THE WEEK IN REVIEW

...The ranks of the "peace-by-force" school were swelled last week when John D. Rockefeller, Jr., announced his conversion to this doctrine and the American Legion adopted a resolution pledging total support of the Roosevelt Administration's foreign policies...

...I doubt whether even Goebbels would have tried that one," he said...

...Also abandoned by the conference committee was a provision to provide payment of up to $200 in transportation expenses for war workers stranded on completion of their current jobs...

...THE WEEK IN REVIEW AFTER weeks of sparring and shadow-boxing in his roles as President, Commander-in-Chief, and Experienced Global Statesman, Franklin D. Roosevelt climbed into the political ring last week as an avowed and fighting candidate for reelection to a fourth term as President...

...In other nations the product of such discord has been communism and fascism...

...Names And Notes In The News Criminals...

...it has caused untold misery...

...The American Red leader, in denying that his organization was pushing for an overthrow of capitalism, said: "If we wanted the quickest turn to communism in this country, we would support reactionary candidates who would lead us quickly back to the days of apple-selling and revolution...

...In a gay mood, he said that Republican leaders have carried the attacks against his Administration even down to "include my little dog Fala...

...Unlike the members of my family, he resents this...

...always a big one, for its very fantastic nature will make it more credible if only you keep repeating it over and over again...

...Short-Sighted Action There was great political shouting in the land last week about jobs and reconversion for the postwar period, but most of the press and the politicians were looking the other way when Congress finally passed anemic, short-sighted legislation to deal with the critical domestic problems of reconversion...

...Philip Murray, CIO President, said it was "so far short of a reconversion program that it cannot even properly be called by that name...

...Harry Truman, Democratic candidate for Vice President, which placed the blame for lack of preparedness on the White House...

...Roosevelt devoted a gooS bit of time to the attacks made by the GOP on his dog...

...With the actual list in their hands," Kuh cabled, "members of the Commission, sitting at desks or indignantly pacing their rooms, today again confirmed that top Nazi chiefs had up to now been left off the list...

...It plumbed the depths of demagogy by dragging into this campaign the names of Hitler and Goebbels...

...This school, which seeks fo commit the U. S. to enforce any peace settlement, regardless of its terms, has enrolled in recent months the American Bankers Association, the American Bar Association, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Manufacturers...

...The only hopeful note for progressives was the announcement by Will Clayton, President Roosevelt's Surplus Property Administrator, that he was resigning because he did not like the bill as passed by Congress...

...Speaking at Oklahoma City, he called for a Republican victory in November to "restore integrity at the White House so that its spoken word can be trusted once again...

...A sensational charge that the United Nations War Crimes Commission, which has been meeting in London for nearly a year, has not included the Messrs...

...It showed that the President, on this night at least, was in fighting trim and intended to slug it out with his opponent, New York's Gov...

...I shall never make a speech to one group of American people inciting them to hatred and distrust of any other group...

...The Administration's lack of preparedness "has cost countless of American lives...

...On the human phases of reconversion, Congress balked at the liberal provisions of the Kilgore Bill and stopped far short of even the much more modest George Bill...

...Thomas E. Dewey, for the Presidency...

...Blasts GOP Double-Talk The President's vocabulary ranged from crisp to brutal as he lashed out at Republican leaders for "insincerity," "inconsistency," and "falsehoods," which he described variously as "fantastic," "ridiculous,' "callous and brazen," "malicious," and as "the most obvious common or garden variety of fraud...

...Newspaper correspondents found little to distinguish his views from those of the New Deal as he called for a broadened program of social security, a medical program for the underprivileged, and "some degree of economic direction...

...Dewey Cracks Back Two nights after the President's opening broadside, Dewey struck back with his toughest speech of the campaign...

...it descended to quoting from Mein Kampf and to reckless charges of 'fraud' and 'falsehood.'" In speeches last week at Portland, Oreg., Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Dewey lashed out at the doctrine of the "indispensable man" and sketched in general outline his social and economic philosophy...

...Here was no rousing call to future battle against the economic royalists, but rather a brilliant defense of the past which seemed to say, between the lines, that the past 11 years left little if anything to be desired...

...Turning to the GOP allegation that he is too old and tired to be President for another term, the Chief Executive said: "I am actually four years older—which seems to annoy some people...

...The major Communist activity at present, he said, was policing labor's "no-strike" pledge and other efforts which he said were directed at increased war production...

...In its final form, the measure fails to provide unemployment benefits for more than 3,000,000 Federal war workers not now covered by unemployment compensation...

...A Senate committee last week recommended to the full membership the establishment of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee empowering the Government to eliminate racial discrimination in the hiring and firing of industrial and Government workers...

...Asked to name them so the voters could know who they were, Ball lost his courage, refused...

...While Dewey was promising postwar prosperity if elected, and Roosevelt was keynoting "jobs" if reelected, a bi-partisan coalition of Republicans and Democrats passed reactionary bills on both reconversion and disposal of the $103,000,-000,000 worth of surplus Government property...

...George Aiken, Vermont Republican, observing how much attention Congress gave to the needs of big business, noted that "it seems peculiar that men can work day and night over property and dollars and cents, but cannot give consideration to human beings...

...Testifying before a special House investigating committee, Earl Browder, president of the Communist Political Association, which succeeded the American Communist Party, reported that the group now has about 80,000 members who contribute 25 cents to $2 a week, thus establishing an annual fund of $150,000 to $170,000...

...Fala Is Resentful Cracking back at Dewey's repeated charge that the 'Administration has been unable to solve unemployment and has no postwar plans, the President said the keynote of his entire reconversion program can be found in the word "jobs...

...Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels on the official Allied list of war criminals, was published in England last week and cabled to the United States by Frederick Kuh, able correspondent for New York's PM and the Chicago Sun...

...Force...

...The bill as passed drew fire from labor and liberal leaders...

...There is one thing I am too old for," the President asserted...

...Joseph Ball, Minnesota Republican, charged this week that 11 of the 32 Senators up for reelection in 1944 are isolationists who would attempt to stifle plans for a world peace organization...

...Beyond that he did not venture in discussion of reconversion and postwar employment prospects...

...Congress refused, voted instead to place authority in the hands of a three-member board...

...He promised that if sent to the White' House, there would be no return to the "reactionary philosophy of dog-eat-dog...

...In fact, millions of us are more than 11 years older than we were when we started to clean up the mess that was dumped in our laps in 1933...

...I shall not join my opponent in his descent to mud-slinging...

...Roosevelt accused Republican leaders of bringing into the campaign the "propaganda technique invented by the dictators abroad...

...Roosevelt struck bitterly at Republican "hypocrisy," charging that it was now seeking to claim credit for the labor and social reforms which the GOP had opposed in Washington...

...The technique: you should never use a small falsehood...

...The "most ridiculous of the campaign falsification," Mr...

...Ball called for the defeat of these 11...

...Thus, a "reactionary" Congress has secured the release of a hard-boiled Tory appointed by a "liberal" President...

...Evasion...

...The Democratic candidate characterized as "callous and brazen falsehood" the Dewey assertion that the Administration plans "to keep men in the Army when the war is over, because there might be no jobs for them in civil life...

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...One by one he took up the major GOP complaints against his Administration, as they had been turning up in Dewey's speeches, and blasted away at them in tart, colorful style, proving especially effective in instances where Dewey and his associates had led with their chins...

...Reds' Role...

...Roosevelt declared, is that the Administration failed to prepare the nation for war...

...The President's address to the AFL Teamsters' Union, broadcast to the nation on time bought and paid for by the Democratic National Committee, cheered his supporters and dismayed his opponents...

...Kuh's disclosure that Hitler and his closest associates have been omitted as a result of "narrow legalisms" brought an angry denial from Secretary of State Cordell Hull...

...The result was a brilliant performance—• full of the ringing appeals, the clever belittling of opponents, the biting scorn, and the fighting phrases that have so long made him invincible in the political arena...

...Clayton, millionaire cotton broker who was one of the financial angels for the/Associated Farmers and the Liberty League, had demanded passage of surplus property legislation which would give complete control to one man—himself...

...And something new had been added—humor—which Mr...

...Dewey characterized the President's opening campaign address as "a speech of mud-slinging, ridicule, and wisecracks...

...Browder testified that the Communists are "supporting the candidate of the Democratic Party on a non-partisan basis...

...Kuh countered this denial by going directly to members of the Commission charged with compiling a list of Axis war criminals...

...In lighter vein, and typical of the semi-carnival nature of the campaign, Mr...

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...Why the very day that this fantastic charge was first made, a formal plan for the method of speedy discharge of the Army had already been announced by the War Department—a plan based upon the wishes of the soldiers themselves...

...I cannot talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time...

...Roosevelt's scornful denial that his Administration had failed to prepare the nation for war, Dewey quoted public statements, including those of Sen...

...Thoughtful Americans reflected, as they turned off ?heir radios, that they had listened to a great show and a great showman, but they were troubled by the level on which the show had been presented...

...Aroused by Mr...

...In the midst of the greatest war in history with the nation and the world facing the most challenging problems of modern times, the President of the United States had chosen to ignore basic issues and to present his case in terms of clever humor and the vaguest generalities...

...Roosevelt showed he could use with devastating effect...

...The London News-Chronicle, expressing shocked amazement at the disclosures, also asserted that "Hull's information is unfortunately incorrect...