The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-15

ions expressed In tuls AZ %~A
are those of the author and
NAV not always harmonic
with its position. Editor.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-The col
laboration of Harold 1ckes ano
Harry Hopkins with Kelly
Hague in the late campaign OF the
party of humanity has been notec
and approved by slight plurality
along with the mutually OF Florel
10 La Guardia and the once alb
horrent Mr.. Flynn. These assocla
tions were equally embarrassing u
all concerned, and the Little Flow
er's shame was such that in a mo
ment of angry self-reproach he
snatched his own conscience by the
neck-tie and tried to throttle tht
small, still voice.
Yet, for the record, it should bt
noted that there were other al
hances hardly less incongruou!
and that we seem to be developing
here, in our two-party system,
condition somewhat like that which
existed in France until Hitler came
along and unified the funny race
Unpleasant
OF those who favored the candi
dacy of Wendell Willkie this voter
at least, has come to realize since
the campaign ended that he foune
himself yanking at the covers ir
the company of some types witt
whom he would not be found dead
much less in bed. 1t was unpleas
ant to receive letters of encourage
ment from malignant anti-semitic'
and to he called "one Of us" b,
SNUG and stuffy individuals whit
obviously never did a lick of worl
in their lives and have strong ideas
about the lower classes, indorsins
my work against unions"
One crazy man Who reads Hit
ler and Streicher, and doubtless
sleeps with a gun under his pillow
wrote to warn me of some fou
international plot against my life
and to assure me that my assas
sination would be avenged by tn,
knights of some secret order.
had given no indication of an,
sympathy with his hallucinations
but he was against Roosevelt as ;
tool of the devils who dance il
his own head, and therefore
favored Roosevelt's opponents, in
cluding me.
A file of this correspondence
which l threw away from day tt
day, would be an interesting his
torical keepsake, but I am no Ii
brarian, and posterity probabl,
will be better off without it.
But the lines crossed and re
crossed in great tangle Of con
fused animosities and purpose:
which must have placed m )
others in very uncomfortable so
ciety.
Several Catholic clergymer
came out for Willkie, and thuk
found themselves on the same side
with John L. Lewis, who, unques
tionably, now, as before, has the
support Of the communist element
in the CLIO. If the communists
voted for Willkie they were in
CRATES, for they owed much to the
New Deal, and if they didn't they
let down the man who is and has
been their man in the American
labor movement, although he is no
a communist but only a free-style
dictator himself.
Roosevelt Side
On the Roosevelt side there were
strong supporters who had defend.
ed Lewis against the charge of die
tatorship and association with the
bolos, but now denounced him anc
hollered loud that the communist
were for Willkie because Levi:
was. One day Lewis was all right
and it was dirty Girdler propa.
ganda to say that he had any truck
with the Musvocites, but when he
went over to Willkie he was {
traitor and a tool of Big Joe.
1t was not pleasant to be on Johr
L. Lewis side, for my suspicious
have been confirmed since, name
ly, that he had to go with the
communists who are his strength
who were quitting Roosevelt be-
cause the President armed for wal
or defense, contrary to the party
line from Moscow. If the commu
nists were on Wilkes side they
were not only ingrates but, much
worse, were temporarily at least,
comrades of the middle class anc
big and little business and many
Of the religious people and the
anti-semites, who, to man, judg
ing by their propaganda, mus
have voted against the President
Then, in New York, we dis
covered on the platform at one o1
the Presidents rallies Mr.. Genero
so Pope, the publisher of the ripest
and most profitable Italian press
one, but it killed one important
House provision and added one of
its own, and stormy House or