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party bosses and he intends to at
tempt it again this time. This time,
of course, he will use a different
technique, the details of which are
political secret.
Following Has Shrunk.
Mr.. Willkie realizes that his
popular following in some sections
OF the country has shrunk since
1910. He smarts under charges that
he is too New Dealish, that in his
world travels the past three years
he has attempted to out-Roosevelt
the Roosevelts.' Other critics look
on him as windjammer. But of
all the charges that have been made
against him, the idea. that he sees
eye to eye with President Roosevelt
on foreign affairs annoys him the
most.
AS a matter of fact" Mr.. Willkie
said in an interview, Il don't know
what the Presidents foreign policy
is. I read everything he SAYS.
examine all his speeches carefully
and scrutinize his public pronounce
ments sentence by sentence, and if
America has definite foreign policy
today, I don't know what it is.
For instance. I don't know
whether the President is in favor
OF the United States, Russia, Great
Britain and China, as we'll as the
other United Nations. forming an
association after the war, both for
the preservation of the peace and
the economic stabilization of the
world, or whether he is in favor of
an exclusive Anglo-American offen-
siVe and defensive military alliance,
with Russia and China merely in
cidents to such an arrangemeent.
Roosevelt Policy Unknown.
Il don't know whether the Presi-
dent really intends ultimately to
recognize the democratic forces of
Europe or intends to continue deal
ing as he has heretofore done with
the llaborationist elements. also
read, of course. what Vice President
Wallace and the Secretary of State
say and that the very able former
Undersecretary Sumner Welles,
from time to time has said. With
Mr.. Welles / found myself in fire.
quent accord. Many times I don't
even understand what the others
are talking about"
Historians of this era undoubt-
edly will give the man from In
diana credit for carrying the torch
in the movement to get the Repub-
lican party away from isolationism
Mr.. Wi]lkie made his position clear
long before we entered the war
Mr.. Willkie is convinced that Mr..
Roosevelt is desirous of a fourth
term, but he doesn't agree with
those who feel the Commander in
Chief" slogan, upon which the New
Dealers expect to emphasize in the
campaign, is a campaign argument
that will be hard for any Repub-
lican to answer.
Il don't agree with those who say
that the President will surely win
the 1914 elections if the war is on,
nor with those who say he will
surely lose the elections if the war
is over" Mr. Willkie said this week.
Wants Affirmative Policy.
THE Republicans will wir the ma
tional elections in 1914 if the coun-
try is convinced that both their
nominee and the party itself are
competent to understand and deal
with the problem of Americas re-
lationship with the rest of the
world; also if the nominee and the
party not by captious criticism but
afflrmatively present to the country
a program of competent manage
ment of the affairs of government
coupled with progressive economic
and domestic policies
To one who travelled throughout
the campaign of 1910 on the Willkie
special train and who has visited
with him virtually once a month
since. the man who made political
history by capturing the Philadel-
phia convention has changed very
little. He remains just as forth
right as before. never pulling a
punch. never dodging question.
AS the Nations No. l leader of
the opposition party and because
OF his globe-circling good will trip
Mr.. 'Willkie has become a sort of