Evening star., 1943-07-26

the war effort to 1@&4
DESTROY every David Lawrence.
thing he has accomplished on the
domestic front over the last 10
years. Some people call these
powerful groups isolationists,
others call them 'reactionaries' and
still others. seeing them following
in European footsteps, call them
American Fascists'."
Mr. Wallace uIwittingly has en-
couraged the use of definitions of
present day PHILOSOPHERS of Gov
ernment in America. The testimony
of Prof. Burnham. who wrote the
widely read book, The Managerial
Revolution is pertinent,
He says the New Deal more
closely resembles both FaScism and
Communism than it does liberalism
or any other truly American
philosophy of government.
New Deal Fascist like.
As a matter of fact New Dealism
has adopted the philosophy Of the
totalitarian states in brushing aside
q written constitution and invent
ing a system of its own. Today
administrative bureaus write regu-
lations that have no derivation
from the statutes passed by Con-
eress and the Supreme Court is
dominated by hand-picked judges
who concur in that philosophy by
upholding continuously the right of
sdministra tive bureaus to write law
and even supply words which Con-
gress itself omitted from the
statutes.
Hitler ordered his judges to de-
eide cases on the basis of pre-
vailing sentiment" and there are
many New Dealers, including the
President himself, who feel that
when an election is won the
justices of Supreme Court must
ignore minority rights as pro-
vided for In a written constitution
and must merely follow the cleo
tion returns as If it were a legisla-
tive body.
TotalitarianiSm fundamentally is
government of men rather than
OF laws and for 10 years that has
been the central theme of New
Dealism, but it would be mistaken
to call the New Dealers FasCiSts or
Communists, though among them
are some with fascistic or COM
munistic philosophy in their atti-
, tudes toward individual liberty.
Generalization Not Pertinent.
Name-calling is not likely to pro-
duce either national unity or under
standing. What is more important
is to examine the underlying
philosophers which are emerging
today and it will be found that no
single classification embracing the
opponents of the President justifies
generalizati ton.
Thus, there are many like the
writer, who feel that the Presidents
foreign policy in the last 10 years
has been wise and that the broad
strategy leading up to the outbreak
of war and since then has been vim
dicated by events. But this does
not mean that one wants to see de-
stroyed everything the President has
accomplished on the domestic front
over the last 10 years.
On the contrary, the social Sc
eurity laws, collective bargaining,
regulatio of investment finance,
minimum wage laws and the pro-
hibition OF child labor are truly lib
eral in their objectiVes, though in
actual administration of these laws
there has been caprice and arbitrary
action to which the New Deal judges
In courts of review have been blind
Label to Fail.
There are some american FaS-
cists"- small minority who are
more to be pitied than Scorned, men
who even before Hitler came on the
scene practiced intolerance and fos-
tered religious bigotry both in en-
ployment and other human rela-
tionships. These men are dimin-
ishing in number AS the war brings
into view the equality of sacrifice
on the fields of battle of all Ameri-
cans, irrespective of religion o.
creed.
The effort to put all the Presi-
dents opponents in single group,
however, and call them "Fascists"
will fail just as did Mr.. Wallace's
cry of "appeasers." This method
will be recognized as Mr. Roose-
welt himself once said as the refuge
of those who cannot win the debate
by sheer weight of reasoned argu-
ment but must resort to name-call-
ing. Mr.. Wallace is too broad
gagged and tolerant an individual
himself to continue to rely on such
tactics.