CHALLENGE FOR MR. ROOSEVELT

...The Chicago convention, which saw the Southern Bourbons and the city bosses join forces, with Mr...

...Gov...

...These grim warnings should be heeded now—before it is too late...

...The silence and indifference with which the nations not listed as the great ones," he said, "have received the results of the Dumbarton Oaks conference are symptoms of a great disillusionment that begins to dominate the public spirit...

...Nothing could be more disastrous for the United States, as it rehearses for a dominating role on the world stage, than to have the Good Neighbor Policy in its own hemisphere collapse because of neglect...

...Joseph H. Ball, anti-labor and anti-New Deal Republican who backed the fourth term because of his devotion to the Roosevelt foreign policies, construed the outcome as a "clear mandate" for "U...

...THE man in the street, however—the worker, the small farmer, and the independent business man—did not share our concern, or if he did, he felt that on his record in the past, the President had earned the right to another opportunity and might yet show that he had at least one more battle for home-front progressivism in his system...

...We pointed out then that the Roosevelt Administration had failed to produce a single piece of basic progressive legislation since 1936, and we appealed to progressives, liberals, and independents to abandon their policy of standing back of the President even when he was wrong...

...This factor, plus great war prosperity, plus the militant organ...

...The Progressive did not share that faith, and as long as two years ago and last year and as recently as last May, pleaded for a revitalization of the New Deal and for pressure on the President by the progressive forces of the nation...

...If present trends continue, they will result in a radical change from the healthy course of the last 10 years...

...Roosevelt as he enters a fourth term with a record of long-continued popular approval unparalleled in American his-, tory—the challenge to lead the fight, even in the midst of vital foreign problems, for an America whose practice of the Four Freedoms would be so earnest and successful as to be a blazing symbol of hope for mankind every where...

...This is the basic challenge to Mr...

...But the MexicatT Foreign Minister took the occasion to announce to the press that the Mexican Government knew only what it read in the newspapers, and a spokesman for a number of other , Latin American republics tartly observed that the "discussions" in Washington amounted only to an opportunity to "listen...

...BUT there was another great factor in the President's sweeping triumph—one of vastly more sig-nificance, we believe, than the press, so largely reactionary, is willing to discuss—and that was the continuing faith of the common man of America in the essential progressivism of the President, not the Administration as such, but the President as a person...

...S. participation in a strong international organization to prevent future wars...

...Countless ordinary Americans who couldn't quote a line out of the President's "State of the Union" address, .of last January remember in a general way that the President said then, as he has said before, that "There cannot be peace in the world unless there is security here at home...

...Sumner Welles, former Undersecretary of State, who seems to be in close touch with Latin American diplomats, has voiced similar fears...

...They will end in the revival of blocs of antagonistic countries within the New World...

...There isr something seriously wrong in our relations with . the other American republics," he wrote recently...

...Americans who think that our only trouble in Latin America is in fascist-ruled Argentina do not hear the rumblings of discontent from many another South and Central American nation which feel that we now take them for granted, ignore them in vital deliberations, and act more like a hard-headed boss than a good neighbor...

...The Chicago Tribune, also anti-labor arid anti-New Deal, and in addition, a violent critic of the Roosevelt Administration's foreign policies, could find no such mandate because Gov...

...Roosevelt, we said then, was "an astute politician...

...It is time for thunder on the left...

...An early Pan-American Conference, in which the smaller republics of the New World would have a voice in shaping the regional and global systems under which they are expected to live, would not only go far toward restoring neighborly relations, but would also serve as a democratic precedent for the regional groups of the Old World...

...Roosevelt's approval, to guillotine Vice President Henry Wallace, was only melancholy confirmation of a trend against which we had long warned...

...Dewey "accepted the Roosevelt diplomatic program, almost in its totality, as his own," and hence "there was no referendum...

...It would be too easy then to continue to duck the challenge on the home front, and thus play into the hands of the Tories who know that total absorption in foreign affairs will make it easier to resist the»clear-cut demand of the people for economic opportunity and security here at home...

...Timely Warning AMERICA'S Good Neighbor Policy in the Western Hemisphere, which has been rightly acclaimed as our greatest achievement in the field of foreign affairs during the past decade, has been gravely menaced in recent months...

...New Deal" and, at the same time, turned the greatest problem of all—the reconversion of America to peacetime economy—to the Baruch-Han-cock-Byrnes-Clayton-Vinson crowd of conservatives...

...All this was pointed up the other day when Alfonso Flores, member of Mexico's Senate Foreign Relations Committee, publicly asserted that the Latin American nations are displeased- at having been ignored at conferences on postwar problems...

...Dewey himself put his finger on an explanation which many an objective analyst has offered, that millions of Americans—parents, wives, sweethearts—were unwilling to risk a change in the midst of war, especially when the tide of battle appeared to be running strongly in our favor, but not quite strongly enough to permit a "gamble" in changing the Commander-in-Chief...

...But there was only a weak "me too" from liberal ranks when the President announced the burial of "Dr...

...As long as the pressure comes from the right, he will yield te the right...

...It would be a ghastly mistake for Mr...

...isation work of the PAC-CIO, plus the ineptness of the GOP campaign, contributed materially to the reault...

...They will imply the disruption at a most crucial moment of an inter-American system in which the United States was an equal partner in the American family of nations...

...Roosevelt to let labor-baiting Joe Ball convince him that he won on the issue of foreign policy alone...

...During the recent conferences at Dumbarton Oaks, for instance, the State Department pretended that the other American republics were being "informed" of what was going on, and that representatives of these nations in Washington were be-, ing called in "to exchange information and ideas...