Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Wi||kie Pledges
He d Send More
Planes 10 Britain
Plans to Help Industry
So Much $1,000 Craft
Wouldn't Be News
Tert OF Mr.. WILKES Baltimore
Speech on Page AIS.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

ABOARD W1LLKIE TRAIN EN-
ROUTE TO CAMDEN, N. j., Oct. 81.
Production of airplanes would be
stepped up so high if he is elected
President, Wendell Willkie said to-
day, that the matter of providing
$4,000 planes to Great Britain would
not be news.
Addressing a cheering crowd at
Wilmington, Del, the Republican
presidential nominee quoted Presi-
dent Roosevelt as saying he wanted
sympathetic attention to Britain's
proposal to buy thousands more
American-made warplanes.
We'll, who wouldn't?" asked Mr..
Willkie. IF you elect me Presi-
dent, such a request will not even
be news, because it would be so in
significant. We will be turning out
planes by the hundreds where we
now are turning them out by ones. F"
Points to Labor Support.
Mr.. Willkie asked his listeners
whether they had any doubt that
wendell Willkie, with the conf
dence of American labor, can do
more than Franklin Roosevelt can
to bring about peace and keep us
of this road of stagnation?"
Speaking later at Chester, Pa,
the Republican nominee said he is
getting "a great deal Of amusement
out of the last-minute effort of the
opposition. They're even wasting
money now hiring people to attend
my meeting. That is the ultimate
IN New Deal foolishness."
Declaring reports continue to
come in of an upSurge in senti-
ment for him, Mr. Willkie said:
I'VE are on the march. We are
going to win. I have just received
q report that California is beginning
to go over the top"
Chides President for Issues.
The President, he charged, started
out to create the impression he was
being drafted and that the people
would have to say whether the third
term tradition should be broken"
Now" he continued, ''he is out
beating the hastings, discussing To-
cal issues, like candidate for Con-
gress."
At Baltimore last night Mr.. Will
kie made a bid for the good will
of the Tydings adherents by prais-
ing the Free State for resisting the
Presidents efforts to purge the
-senior Democratic Senator in 1888
You did we'll" he added, not
only to rebuke the presumption of
the purge, but to assure yourselves
Of good Senator"
Willkie Supporters Hopeful.
Although there has been a gen.
eral belief Maryland is safely in
the Roosevelt column, Willkie sup
porters in Baltimore were anything
but discouraged last night. Dis
cussing the situation after Mr.. Will
kie had made his speech, they in
sisted the Republican nominee is
not out of the running in the Free
State. They base their hopes on
two possibilities: First, their belief
that Mr.. Willkie will run strong on
the Eastern Shore, and, secondly
that the third term issue may sway
substantial number of Democrats.
Warming up to the cheers of the
crowded armory, Mr. Willkie fire.
quently injected into his speech
sharp darts at the President.
For example, Baltimore has
fairly large percentage of citizens
of italian descent, and Mr.. Willkie
took occasion to call attention to
the Presidents speech of June 10 in
which, he said, the President de
clared of Italy that the hand that
held the dagger has struck it into
1.-THE back of its neighbor'"
In the capitals of Europe this bit
OF oratory was not taken as a move
, 10 keep the United States at peace"
Mr.. Willkie added.
Touches on Greek War.
Then Mr.. Willkie asked his lis
teners if they had heard a recent
reference by the President to the
Grecian-Italian war.
There was no talk about dag
gers" Mr. Willkie continued. There
was peace and love for everybody.
My, it must be wonderful to have a
mind like that"
Again, in accusing the President
of not keeping the sound money
pledge in the 1882 platform, Mr..
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