Evening star., 1941-02-17

IoId4IZeS 10 the effect that Wendell
the Well-Rumpled was planted on
the G. o. P. at Philadelphia by a
new Deal conspiracy. Who paid
Tor the kilograms which swept upon
the Republican delegates to demand
Ihe nomination of this New Deal
Democrat?" it asks. Who organized
this network of conspiracy? The
persons should be searched out and
should be obliged to share with Mr..
Willkie the public shame Of it."
Well, It's a long way from Phila-
delphia and can remember being
pooed in Pittsburg shortly after the
election for remarking on the fact
that the Wilkie nomination was a
wen-organized piece Of high-pres-
sure lobbying. 1t did not occur to
me to claim the credit for F. D. r,
Of planting a fifth columnist in the
citadel of the little Americans, the
America firsters who want America
to be the last item Of Herr Hitler's
bill Of fare.
However, now that the pig is out
Of the poke, the truth can be told
at last.
Candidacy Decided Long Ago.
Pleasant though it would be to
pretend that the Republican 1910
nomination was set by an under
cover meeting on an American
cruiser in mid-Atlantic between F.
D. R., the Clveden set, Joe Stain,
Hirohito and the man in the iron
mask, I regret to inform my readers
that such was not the case. Wendell
WILKES candidacy was decided as
long ago as 1919. after the Senate
embarked America on phoney iso-
lationism, with the help of Col Nc
Cormick Of the Chicago Tribune.
At that time, the leaders of the
Republican party gambled with
Americas destiny, by assuming that
we could safely cash in on the fruits
of victory without accepting any re-
sponsibiity for the maintenance Of
peace or the development Of inter-
national justice.
Led by the Chicago Tribune and
other organs of naive reaction,
America kept out Of the League of
Nations which might have fostered
a peaceful revision of the treaty
Of Versailles. Led by the arch-isola-
ZIONIST Borah, and followed by
Coolidge and Hoover, America sank
her Navy and refused to maintain
her strength. Led by the Republ-
can financiers. America poured
money into Europe in the l920s and
pulled 1t out again after the crash
Of 1929. thus aiding in the economic
collapse which created Hitlerism.
Faced with the rise of threats Of
war by Japan, Italy and Germany
in the 1930s. the little Americans
simply denied that there was danger
of war and when war came pre-
tended that it was a "phoney war"
Defeatists and Appeasers Active.
In 1910, when the Nazis attacked
In the west and France collapsed,
the Republican party met at Phila-
delphia. The defeatists and ap-
peasers were active. They proposed
to take it all lying down, to allow
democracy to be destroyed piece
meal and to hope for profitable busi-
IlcSo Will 4NdGISs 4AlCLl SdllN10
dates were Taft of Ohio or Vanden-
berg of Michigan. Dewey's candidacy
was another experiment by Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms.
1t was at that moment that the
rank -and-f1le Republicans and busi-
nessmen were skillfully modified
behind the one G. o. p. candidate
who was committed to the principle
of aid to England. Using the utilities
network as a political machine,
WILKES nomination crumpled the
Little Americans at Philadelphia.
And Col, Mccormick supported
Willkie all through the campaign
with full knowledge that the can
didate stood with Roosevelt on
foreign policy. There's the Con
spiracy" and all that need be said
Is that the G. o. P. voters revolted
against 20 years of party policy
based on isolationism in foreign
affairs. So if the Tribune wishes to
investigate, it had best begin with
investigating itself and its publishers.
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