The Nome nugget., 1942-02-20
The Congressional Elections

The forthcoming congressional elections will be a. most important event in American history There are three possible outcomes Mr. Flynn's viewpoint might succeed MT Flynn want unified congress through the triumph of the Democratic party, which means an ap proach to 3 single party system.
 The Republican die-hard viewpoint might succeed. In ths would have congress divided on the major issues of the war and repetition of the situa tion that confronted Woodrow Wilson.
 The viewpoint of MT. Roosevelt-and Wendell Will Mcknight succeed. In this case, would be protect ing the tWo-party system by choosing from amongst Sepubcans and Democrats those loyal to the national program, whose opposition would be positive, con- structive, and directed toward winning the war, in stead of negative dsruptve, and leading toward stale mate and paralysis.
 The popular will is to win this and make great, constructive peace In order succeed must have leadership and cooperation all along the line. Coop eraon does not mean Servlity, congress that is merely rubber stamp. It means congress that casl actively contribute to winning the war by using it's brains not merely that doesn't hamper the admin istraton MT Flynn wants the supremacy of the party apparatus which gives superiority to the party leaders, It is to be deplored in normal times, but is destructive in times, for it means that the nation is exploited for the party machinery, and it brings about false identifcation-of loyalty with party orthodoxy. In such the opposition, without responsibility for the conduct of the war, can function only by OppO- son for the sake of opposition The President realizes this. He asks that be elected not according to party but according to their stand the main issue before the country
 This is MT. Willke's viewpoint, too and it is states manlike. For MT. Willke sees that the Republican party will not recover by it's power divide and de- sroy, but by it's proven record of superior earerSh in life and death crisis Every administration makes mistakes-such is life And it is human for admins trations to defend their mistakes instead of pub licizing them loyal opposition becomes, therefore, the conscience of the nation, and it's watch dog.
 But there IS another oppoSition-the die-hard op- position, which, in the war, is a copperhead opposition And it is laying plans which should they succeed can wreck the nation. This opposition is even Repub- Lcan It plans to the Republican machinery There are many party Democrats in it, and there Fascist circles behind it. It has press It has pamphlets and minor papers that reach the rabble It has plan: To the reelection of the kl-Roosevet crowd and of all the iSolaonists It intends to create solid and active minority whose purpose will be to parayze all action and to use every internal confusion and terna defeat to render the country incapable of an active pursuit of the
 1t has an external policy; to divide the United Stat es from her allies, and prevent United Nations con- duct of the war, by demanding an exclusively Amer- can control of the war, which to be very pat rlotlc, but would be disastrous Their slogan iS Defeat so blinded by their rancor and so stubborn in their hates that they cannot recognize mutual depend ency the British, the Dutch, and eventually pro- bably the Russians in the Far East They would even welcome partial defeats if those defeats would bring them into power.
 It is difficult to think there are such Americans But the grim reality is that there Their prototypes helped destroy France which was also deeply pat riotic nation unwilling to believe that there were such goings-on amongst their "out'' politicians
 The American people in these elections must think And the election campaign must be campaign for the real issues of this Both parties must make campaign the single issue of how to win the war and anyone unwilling to come clean this issue should be voted into oblivion
 By Dorothy Thompson eeased by the Bell Syndicate Inc