Evening star., 1940-08-20
Text Of Secretary ckes Speech Answering Wendell WGe
The tert OF Secretary IckeS'
address, broadcast last night,
tollo1CS.:

The tert OF Secretary IckeS'
address, broadcast last night,
tollo1rS:
On Saturday last, Mr.. Willkie
gave to the American people
what he called his personal key
note.
1t was reminiscent of Alfred M.
Landon four years ago. AS I lis
tened carefully, I came to under
stand why he had not lived up to
his advance buildup. A man
cannot make an effective assault
upon the New Deal when he ac-
cepts the New Deal in principle.
He cannot make political capital
out of the foreign policy of the
administration when he agrees
with that policy. 1t has aptly
been said that he agreed with
Mr.. ROosevelt's entire program of
social reform and that it was
leading to disaster.
However, on several important
points, Mr.. Willkie arose above
partisanship and, for this, as an
American citizen, I thank him.
1 thank him for his denuncia-
ton OF intolerance at home and
abroad. And I hope that he will
have the courage to tell the
Coughlinites, the BundistS and
other Fascists who are rallying
to his support that he does not
wish their favorS.
Thanks Given for Views
On British Fleet.
I thank him for saying plainly
that our interests and our way of
life would be adversely affected
by the loss of the British fleet,
and for standing squarely with
the President for aiding with our
material resources those people
who are resisting Hitler'S aggres-
sion.
thank him for recognizing the
incompatibility of the Nazi way
of life and our own. I thank him
for standing with the President
for some form of selective service.
However, I deeply deplore the
fact that Mr.. Willkie felt COM
PEELED to toss a sop to the bitter
anti-Roosevelt isolationists by his
ill-considered and demagogic at
tackS upon the Presidents con-
duct of our foreign affairs as de
liberately melting us to war and
as 'unscrupulously" misleading
other nations. Those were con-
temptible remarks for you to
make. Mr.. Willkie, with reference
to the President of the United
States.
Let Mr.. Willkie remember that
Franklin D. Roosevelt has be-
come the worlds symbol for fear
less support of democratic prin-
cipleS, the emblem of the worlds
faith in freedom, the substance
of the worlds hope that right
will prove stronger than might.
BY what warrant does Mr..
Willkie presume to accuse the
President of the United States
of issuing inflammatory state
nents and indulging in manu-
factured panics? BY what grass
hopper leap of the imagination
does this candidate conclude that
the President has not taken the
country into his confidence on
foreign policy? Have the dam
gers against which President
Roosevelt repeatedly warned
failed to materialize? Is the
Hitler attack on England man.
ufactured panic? Does not Mr..
Willkie remember that, time and
again, the President sought to
arouse the American people to
the danger in the European sit
uation, only to have his request
for defense appropriations at
tackled again and again as excess
sive and unnecessary; only to
have his warnings met again and
again with jibes and jeers from
Mr.. Wilkes neW-found friends,
and to be accused, as Mr. Willkie
shabbily accused him on Sat-
urday, of inventing war scares
for selfish political purposes?