The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-03
LOOKING FORWARD
By FRANKLIN MAILMAN
Publicity Director Republican National Committee

In an effort to throw smoke screen
over the failure of the New Deal to
restore to this country either agricul-
tural or industrial recovery, Henry A.
Wallace, New Deal Vice Presidential
candidate, has been going about the
Middle West calling members Of the
Republican Party "appeasers." Thus
he is seeking to attach, in his own
words, something sinister" to every
Republican criticism of the New Deal.
All this is reminiscent of Woodrow
Wilson's effort in 1918 to brand his
opposition as unpatriotic. This was
when he called for election of Demo-
Gratis to Congress-an appeal which
was rejected by the voters, just as the
voters this year will repudiate an Ad-
ministration that seeks to SOW the
seeds of disunity through the type of
speeches Henry Wallace has been MAX
ing.
Of course, one could fight the Wal
lace type of mud-slinging with SINH
lar buckets of mud. When Henry Wal
lace undertakes to characterize Re-
publicans as "appeasers" of Hitler and
Naziism, one could ask: "Where was
Wallace in the last war;"
WAR RECORD is
MISSING
If Henry Wallace has a record of
active military service when German
autocracy once before was menacing
the world, we have been unable to find
it after diligent search. The only rec
ord of Mr.. Wallace's activities in 1917
1918 that we have been able to find
is contained in recent edition of the
Des Moines Qowa) Sunday Regis
ter:
Under the tutelage of his father"
(Secretary of Agriculture in the Ad-
ministrations of President Harding
and COOLIDGE, stated the Register,
speaking of the 1918 period, che was
made secretary of the hog producers
committee which cooperated with Her.
bert Hoover in the fixing of prices
during the war"
Thus, in 1918, when Wendell Willkie
was fighting on the battlefronts in
France against German autocracy,
Henry Wallace, then 80 years old, was
devoting his time to a study of the
hog market, as later result of which,
under the Roosevelt regime, came the
slaughter Of little pigs while millions
in the Nation were hungry.
But the case Of who are "appeasers"
of Hitler should not be permitted to
rest on Henry Wallace's lack of war
record or on the fact that Wendell
| Willkie enlisted in the United States
J Army the day this country declared
war on Germany in 1917.
| F. d. r. INSPIRED
MUNICH SETTLEMENT
More to the point is the fact that it
was Franklin D. Roosevelt who was re-
sponsible for the Munich settlement
of appeasement. At least testimony to
this effect was given to the Nation
by Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles on October 3, 1888, few days
after the Munich settlement when that
disgraceful proceeding stood bare for
all to see
Mr.. Welles in specially arranged
radio address seemed fearful lest Presi-
dent Roosevelt might not receive full
credit for the part he played in bring /
ing about the Munich appeasementI
which resulted in Czecho-Slovakia be-
ing sold down the river. So Mr.. Welles
described the steps, day by day and
hour by hour, taken by the Presi-
dent to bring about the Munich set
tlement.
The Undersecretary explained that
at A. NJ, on September 26, 1888, Mr..
Roosevelt addressed a message, urging
settlement, to the President of
Czecho-Slovakia, to German Chancel-
lor Hitler, and to the Prime Ministers
of Great Britain and France. Mr..