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| Editors Note: In an exclusive interview
with Baukhage. Wendell Wiilkie discIoses his
| blueprint for the future" In the following
| article, WiUkie disposes of the thIrd-party
| question and discusses Americas job in the
| postwar peace. rs ~
Wendell Willkie has cut out a
huge, new job for himself.
That revelation came to me in
one startling, rapier sentence, hurled
across his desk as I sat opposite,
an unsuspecting, inquiring reporter.
It is the biggest job Willkie ever
tackled. Bigger, I am sure he be-
lieves, than being President, even in
wartime, would have been.
1t is not the job of leading third
party. I have his word that he con-
siders formation of third party
impossible.
1t is the job of arousing America
to leadership in an about offensive
for a global peace when the war
ends-beginning now.
With his well-thatched head and
his square shoulders silhouetted
against the flashing panorama of
the East river below, Willkie talked
to me in the Office of his law firm
on Broad street in New York. A
jangling telephone interrupted occa-
sionally, he paused to give quick
answers to pencilled notes from his
secretary, but he kept his mind on
far horizons as he answered list
of IA questions which ! had pre-
pared.
The remark that convinced me
that he means business was part
of his answer to the ninth of my IA
questions. After he had stressed the
necessity for more American lead
ership in the war effort of the United
Nations, I asked:
"What will happen if the United
States doesn't take this leadership
you say is necessary? How will it
affect the war? How will it affect
the postwar world?" q.
American Leadership
Willkie has habit of looking you
in the eye. He doesn't often gaze
into space and mediate before he
speaks. ~
"If there is not United Nations
united command and united council,
with America playing its part in
| the leadership mean political and
moral leadership as well as military
leadership-it will mean that the
war will last longer, many more
lives will be lost uselessly :"
By this time his words were STAG
cato, each sharply emphasized, the
words of a man who wanted his
hearers to believe. The last phrase
came crescendo:
". and the world will revert
to the old spirit of nationalism. :"
| Then he turned and looked at me
intensely: That's why have dedi-
Gated my life to this job"
Those words and the way they
were spoken convinced me that
Wendell Willkie, whatever his polit-
ical ambitions might be, had drawn
a blueprint for his own future that
was wider than the map of the
United States.
eve have to get started now" he
said, 1--WE can't wait until the war
is over. We have to begin to build
the machinery step by step. It isn't
thing that will come full-blown out
of the bottle. E'1
''What are you going to do about
it," / asked.
Third Party Again
II am going to speak, am going
to write, I am going to try to con-
vert the country to the belief-and
/ am going to work within the
framework of the Republican party
toward the adoption of this idea as
apology"
"What about a third party?" I
asked.
''The formation of third party is
legally impossible" he replied, inn
patiently brushing aside the political
implications. He returned to the
question of war and peace policy.
Just what is this policy? Mr..
Willkie made that pretty plain in
his report to the nation. He said:
''To win that peace three things
seem to be necessary-frst, we
must plan now for peace on a global
basis; second, the world must be
free, economically and politically,
for nations and for men that peace
may exist in it; third, America
must play an active, constructive