The Nome nugget., 1942-06-01
Willkie Sees Race For Governor
 ship of New York Wide Open
THINKS REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS DOZEN MEN
 WELL QUALIFIED FOR GOVERNORSHIP
DENIES HE AIDS LEHMAN
He Insists on A Candidate Who FavorS Broad
 International Viewpoint After the War

He Insists on A Candidate Who FaV0rS A Broad
 International Viewpoint After the War
 NEW YORK - With the position that Wendell L.. Willke former Republican candidate for President, will take in the States and Congressional elections this Fall one of great importance his party it learn ed definitely that he will oppose nomination of candi dates with solationist viewpoint and support those who favor broad internatonalis policy after the war Mr. Wllkie assumes that all Republican candidates will favor vigorous and alout prosecution of the In the past few weeks there have been many rumOrs about Mir Willkes position, most of them erroneous and some of them published He has been reported as having told friends that he would support Governor Herbert H. Lehman for reelection, that it doubt ful whether he would choose to support Republican Democratic candidates at the coming election and that his final decision would be based the personalities of candidates.
 Mr Willkie has volunteered no to these but, when questioned directly about the rumor that he world support Governor Lehman if the latter should be candidate for reelection he replied: That is a lot of bunk. 1 a Republican. have discussed the question of supporting Gov ernor Lehman with anybody. Some oVer-anXOus peo- pie apparently spreading this in the hope of creating phony issue.
 Not Committed on Governorshp
 Contrary to the prevalent opinion that former Dis rict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey virtually certain to be the next Republican candidate for Governor, MT Wkie regards the nomination as still open with no lack of who would make acceptable candidates, but he has no candidate of his own
 He has listened to the advocates of all potential cand dates who have called on him and is keeping his mind open. It may be said authortatvey that he is pedg- ed to candidate and has not decided to oppose any candidate. He is open to argument.
 In his conversations with party leaders Mir. Wllkie has emphasized his indifference to personalities Pick candidate about whose international views there can be question: and I'll campaign for him in every ham let, town and city in the State if you want to, I'll keep still if you thing that's best he has told n- fiuental Republicans who have questioned him about the nomination for Governor Tn other words my time is yours from the convention on
 Mr. Dewey, of course, is the leading candidate for the Republican Gubernatoria nomination. Mir. Wllkie recognizes that Mir Dewey gave valuable public ser wee District Attorney of New York County. He re- alzes that in his Lincoln Day dinner speech Mir Dewey declared that the war must be fought through to n sh and that there must be no appeasement What Mir. Wkie does not know is Mir. DeWey's attitude what the United States should do after the war is
 It is Mir. Willke'S belief, frequently expressed in speeches and published articles that the only hope of the survival of freedom in America and elsewhere is for nationalsm and restricted trade areas to be forever eliminated from this world.
 Ii is also his belief that the Republican party will cease to exist major political nstrumentality un- less it completely abandOns iSolatOnSm and adopts a liberal policy toward labor It is his conviction that the future of the Republican party depends large y on the type of candidates it nomnates this Fall
 His List of Qualified Men
 Other Republicans qualified for the Republican nom ination for Governor who have to Mir Wlllkle s attention include:
 Representative James w. WadSworth, former Unit ed States Senator whose position on international af- fairs has never been doubtful and who actually led the President in advocating recognition by the United States of it's responsibility in the world of today.
 Charles Evans Hughes Jr,, son of the former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and Gov nrOO Inf Np1KY MhO for