The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-26
TINE TO UNITE

4 MEXICAN industry is ready to concentrate
n it's united effort on producing all mate
rials required under the new defense program
This word was taken to the WHITE House ny
the departments advisory COUNCIL
which represents a cross section OF tne Nd
TONS industry. The President thus finds his
hands upheld by a very important group III
Americas economic structure at a time when
complete unity is essential.
With this example before them, the political
leaders who have been finding in the third
term bogy an excuse to stir dlssentlon IN
many circles, should understand the serious
implications of their position. They should
take a leaf from the industriallsts DOCK ano
concentrate upon helpfulness instead of seek
ing to create a political issue where none
should be allowed to obtrude nefarious COM
plications in this time of extreme emergency.
WALTER L1PPMANN, whose views carry ire
mendous weight on this momentous subject
because of his republican l%eanings, puts the
matter clearly in a recent syndicated article.
Says he:
"The republican leaders could not talk
as they have talked the past few days if
they realized the extreme and immediate
peril in which Amrica has been placed.
Apparently they are still under the impress
sion that the question is whether we shall
let our sympathy for the Allies lead us
into European war; apparently they still
think that the question is whether Mr..
ROOSEVELT is to get some kind Of political
a6va0tapp at home ont of the c9t3SfrOO6e
overseas. They are tragically mistaken.
These re no longer the questions before
the people"
Mr.. LIpPMANN then proceeds to review the
reasons why they are mistaken, citing the
Battle of Flanders now in progress, the ltalo'
japanese agreement for joint operations, the
consequences of possible surrender of the AL
lied fleets, and adds:
at was high time that Senator TAFT com
pleted his political junket and returned to
his post of duty in the national capital.
Mr.. Willie should abandon his speech
making tour; he should not impair his
high availability in these critical times
by partisan agitation. Mr.. HOOVER and Gov 2
ernor LANDoN should come here and stay
here, allowing no memories of 1882 and
1886 to divert them from their immediate
duty to take a responsible part in the con-
~sulatins which are now imperative. II they
distrust the Presidents judgment, that is
all the more reason why they should now
take a patriots part in steadying the
Presidents Judgment
And he concludes:
IF such a moment as this we cannot
count unhesitatingly upon our leaders and
to put their conscience above their ambi-
lions and their prejudices, then all the de-
lenses for which we may appropriate
money will not defend America"
1t will be remembered that when the ma.
ton faced its World war emergency President
WILSON was offered the services of an army
of citizens skilled in e~xacting tasks, and that
HERBERT HOOVER was among them. The mere
fact that we were then at war afforded no
more serious need for the removal of all poll
teal barriers than this emergency we now face
of producing a defense which can save us from
another war. Let the politicians forget their
politics, at least until the defense emergency
passes and we return to normal processes oil
government and life.
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