Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-29
|WiI|kie Attributes
II Billions Of Defense
Fund 10 6. 0. P. Stand
Declares Opposition to
Congress Adjournment
Resulted in More Money
(Tert of Willkie Address on
Page BIS.

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN EN-
ROUTE TO CHARLESTON, w. Va,
Oct. 29.-Wendell l.. Willkie, reply
ing to President Roosevelt's New
York address, declared today that
Republican insistence on keeping
Congress in session had made pos
sible an extra seven billion dollars
in defense appropriations.
The Republican presidential nomi-
nee, in a statement issued from his
campaign train, commended Mr..
Roosevelt had tried to get Congress
to adjourn in June. The President,
he asserted, suggested the 1nterna-
tional or defense situation did not
require 1t to remain in session.
Congress Failed to Adjourn.
Congress refused TO go home"
Mr.. Willkie said, because OF the
Republican insistence that it stay In
session in view of the grave inter-
national situation.
Since that time Congress has
made appropriations and contract
authorizations of $l2 900 for
necessary but unfulfllled defense re-
quirements. That is seven billion
dollars more than was in the pend
ing bills at the time he CMr. Roose-
velt) suggested they go home.
IF in June Congress had obeyed
the Presidents behest to adjourn,
the United States would still have
seven billion dollars less defense
ON order than it now has.
That demonstrates the unIuSti-
fable nature of the third-term at
tempt.
Important as is this small bit Of
the record, I refer here only to a
detail of the ineffective leadership
of the third-term candidate"
Mr.. WILKES statement was re-
garded by members of his campaign
staff as only a preliminary discus
sion of the Presidents address.
which they said he probably would
take I'D in detail today or tonight in
one of his speeches.
Speaks at Louisville.
The Republican nominee re-
ferred briefly to the defense Situa-
ton last night in speech at Louis
vile, KY, in extemporaneouS re-
marks after concluding his prepared
text. He said
The third-term candidate may
now call attention to the fact that
some Republicans spoke against the
defense program. The Republican
party was the party of opposition,
the Democratic party was in control
and if it had had leader who knew
how to lead it, America today would
not be defenseless.
why talk of this man as the peer
less leader of Democracy, who does
not even know how to lead his own
party?"
Mr.. Willkie, whose schedule today
took him into Southern Ohio and
West Virginia received an ovation
at Louisville from a crowd which
filled the armory. His voice was
husky, but it did not break in his
half-hour address.
Appeal Against Third Term.
His speech was an appeal to Dem
ocrats to oppose a third term for
President Roosevelt on the ground
that it would destroy the two-party
system. He argued that new Deal
party" had taken over the Demo-
cratic party.
1T is unlike the Democratic par
ty," he said. Its principles are as
hostile to those of the Democratic
party, and they are as fatal to it, as
the fungus is to the oak.
at is this New Deal party that
now makes its ultimate grasp for
power-the repeal of the rule
against the third term-that its
reign may continue in perpetuity."
Mr.. Willkie contended that the
idea of limiting presidential service
to two terms has become common
law.
The American people" he said,
know what it would mean to re-
peal the law against third term.
1t means the destruction of our
two-party system. 1t means the
complete mastery Of us all by sin
gle party, and that party under the
orders of single man."
The nominee declared that step
by step the New Deal has been