Evening star., 1940-09-01
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Americans, are accustomed to DEM
ocratic procedure. More effective
results can be obtained through
voluntary cooperation than through
force.
THE laying on the table of con-
troversial questions of substantial
policy Is as essential as is unity of
action among different divisions of
the armed services or cooperation
between agriculture and industry
and labor in the fields of production.
I'VE recommend that wartime
powers be vested in especially
created wartime agencies which will
automatically demobilize when the
war is over.
Should wartime powers be
granted to existing executive or
quasi judicial agencies of the Gov
ernment, it will be next to impos-
sible at the end of the war to sepa-
rate the wartime and peacetime
functions of the Government"
The report, prepared by board
headed by Edward r. Stettinius, jr.,
was filed with President Roosevelt
last year, but never was made pub
lie. Mr.. Willkie said he had received
EXCERPTS from a person in whom he
had "the utmost faith" but who did
not want to be identified because he
feared "reprisals."
Says Labor Will Suffer.
For the second time, Willkie ad-
vocated that the President make
public the entire report. When he
suggested that course a few days
ago, Mr.. Roosevelt said it was now
largely a historical document.
While William L. Hutcheson.
president of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners "a. F. L. i.
sat nearby, Mr.. Willkie declared that
consequences of the Overtcn- Russell
amendment will fall heaviest upon
American labor and those of small
means"
This amendment is a cheap po-
litical proposal of the kind which
brought France to its destruction,
he said.
THE slaughtered millions of
brave French soldiers constitute a
tragic monument to such demagogic
legislation"
In time of emergency. the state
ment continued, the people must
"be willing to lend our government
enough extraordinary powers to
speed up the defense program
But we must never lend it
much less give it-more power than
it needs to help us accomplish the
job. We must not set up dictator
ship to fight the dictators.'
Under the Overton Russell
amendment. Mr.. Willkie asserted,
"an administration that so desired
could - = step into any radio sta
ton, newspaper, manufacturing
enterprise or any other facility and
take it over. The sole pretext would
be failure to reach an agreement
with the owner"
Hits "Subterfuges."
Declaring the amendment "is
completely analogous to the little
subterfuges by which relationships
have been established in Europe"
Mr.. Willkie said:
II do not believe that we can
make American democracy strong
by slipping things over on the rep
resentatives of the American people.
The intentions of an administration
that attempts to govern us in that
way are necessarily suspected.
1T was for that reason that I put
the Overton-Russell amendment
squarely up to Mr.. Roosevelt few
days ago. I wanted to know-and
I still want to know-what his in
tentions are"
Discussing the relation of labor
to the proposal, Mr.. Willkie as
serted:
You cannot conscript industry
without conscripting labor. You
cannot conscript industry without
stagnating the functioning of our
economic life. The arbitrary power
to seize our instruments of pro-
duction is almost as serious as their
actual seizure"
In telegram expressing support
for Mr.. WILKES stand on the
Overton-Russel amendment, Carl
w. Ackerman, Dean of Columbia
University's Graduate School of
Journalism, said that if it were
enacted, "the President may classify
all educational institutions as facili.
ties and our schools will be regi-
mented as they are in Germany,
Italy and Russia"
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