Evening star., 1940-10-02


of inhabitants can no longer be gov
erned by national legislature, but
must be governed by one man.
If the United States, with its 130.-
900 900 people, can find after eight
years only one man fit to govern it.
then the Hitler -Mussolini doctrine
will have been vindicated even by
so-called democratic America. No
better proof of their wisdom in hav-
ing submitted to the one-man gov
ernment idea could be given to the
peoples Of Germany and Italy today
than Americas abandonment in 1910
OF her tradition after more than $50
years of voluntary retirement Of the
Chief Executive at the end OF two
terms.
What the dictators of Europe have
criticized about America today is
that despite its professions Of free
dom, it is really no different from
totalitarianism except in degree or
intensity. In Germany the one
party system prevails and the gov
. ernment clique controls everything.
In America the New Deal clique is
in power and controls everything
from the courts to the legislative
and nominating machinery so that
laws and even nominations for
Senator and Represent ative are
made virtually by White House de-
cree.
Convention Is Cited.
TT,a DAronrrofjc NAfionoI Cnn.
vention at Chicago in July wss
striking example of the type of
thing in which the Nazis and the
Fascists of Italy believe. The forms
are preserved-even the Reichstag
and Nazi party are called together
every now and then by Herr Hitler
but the control of such bodies Is
absolute through one-man domina-
ton.
Mr.. Roosevelt's answer has been
that dictatorship does not arise
where free elections occur and
that the European dictators 60 not
have to run the gantlet Of such
free elections.
But are Americas elections free?
The power of the purse which helped
the New Deal win in 1896 again is
in evidence in this campaign. The
Federal offlceholders and employees
are active despite the Hatch law.
The Justice Department enforces
neither the Federal Corrupt Prac-
tices Act nor the Hatch law. and
the Government employees know it.
In other words. the party in power
in Washington uses the whole Gov
ernment propaganda machine to
attack the opposing candidate and
seeks by such propaganda to dis
credit the opposition nominee. The
use of governmental offices to carry
on elections has been forbidden by
the Hatch law, but it goes on just
the same.
One-Party Affair.
When Herr Hitler surveys America
he must get a good deal OF satisfac-
ton out of the way the New Dealers
with totalitarian ideas have tackled
governmental problems. Thus Herr
Hitler long ago served notice that
judges must be governed in their
decisions not by law, but by local
public sentiment" This principle
of totalitarianism is imbedded in the
Federal judiciary which from top to
bottom. now is one-party affair
and by the governmental boards and
commissions which have adopted a
partisanship that denies fair trials
and impartial hearings.
Hitler and Mussolini have been
ridiculing democracy for several
years and if the November election
perpetuates particular govern
mental group for II years and If
the United States picks President
for a third term in defiance Of the
very principle which Thomas JET
ferson said was the core of the
democratic process itself, Herr Hit
Ter will be able to point to America
as having rightly abandoned what
to him is the foolishness of rotation
in office that has long been the
symbol of Americas governmental
system.
Lehman'S Position.
But if there is one man in Amer
lea who ought to know how far Hit
ler's doctrines have permeated the
minds of American politicians it is
Gov. Lehman. Who in all the
United States was more eligible for
his party's nomination for the