Evening star., 1943-08-01
Landon Says Wallace
U. 5. Fascist Speech
Was Blow al Unity
BY GOULD LINCOLN.


Oetrolt speech naming anti-New
Dealers American Fascists," dealt
national unity a tremendous blow.
FORMER Gov. ALI Landon of Kansas
said In nationwide broadcast from
kansas City, Mo. last night, under
the auspices of the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
AT a time when this nation is
engaged in a deadly struggle to
preserve the ideals for which it has
always stood, Vice-President WAL
lace declared civil war" the Repub-
lican standard bearer of 1886 said.
But he declared that war on
49, every American who might ever
hope to do his own independent
thinking to solve his own problems
Mr.. Wallace, with the approval
of Candidate Roosevelt, gaily plowed
the soil for bitter political cam
paign."
Unity Dealt Blow, He Says.
. Mr.. Landon continued with the
assertion that the Vice-President
and Mr.. Roosevelt had dealt team
work and national unity dismal
blow" No President, he said, had
ever had the unity that was Presi-
dent Roosevelts in early 1888, or in
December. 1941.
Instead of pulling the country
together as commander in chief to
face the greatest military effort of
our lives-Candidate Roosevelt is
pushing us farther and farther
apart on domestic issues" Mr..
.Landon said.
The former Governor said that we
are winning the war, that the enemy
ns firing fast and has no reserves.
What is needed, he said, is to keep
up the driving pace which will not
give the enemy a chance to catch
his second wind.
"If our drive slackens," said Mr..
Landon, "if we fumble-if our in
,tensif1ed efforts are diverted by do
.mestic bitterness, the victory punch
will be delayed. 1t Is even possible
1t may slip from our grasp"
Says Wallace Didn't Meet Issues.
Mr.. Landon charged that Mr.. WAL
lace, in this opening gun" in
vital presidential campaign, had
failed to meet issues as issues. He
,exerted himself to hide facts behind
,the curtain of blind hate-of un-
thinking distrust and suspicion" he
said.
Bitter controversies, Mr.. Landon
said, are characteristic Of this ad-
ministration and are the results of
"Ife-term ambition" He said that
the administration has abandoned
sthe original New Deal.
: I'm other words, the postwar plans
of the palace guard bureaucrats,"
continued Mr.. Landon, "are to re-
.Ieve the businessman of all re-
/: sponsibility, and-to relieve the elected
representatives OF the people in
Congress of all responsibility.
That Is the Fascist theory of a
planned economy. 1t is the only
New Deal answer to the unsolved
problems Of unemployment, pow
erty and mass machine production"
Charging that Mr.. Wallace was
beclouding the issues, Mr.. Landon
said Mr.. Wallace had carefully
avoided mentionng the fact that it
was the bureaucratic planners who
sprung the Idea of creating arti-
f1cial scarcities Of food and clothing
by restricting production.
Winning Peace Called Problem.
Aside from our war effort" Mr..
Landon said, "the most urgent
problem confronting the American
people is winning the peace at home.
This Is OF greater Importance than
international solidarity"
Mr.. Landon predicted that unless
q halt is called this country will
face Fascism or Nazism as a result
OF arbitrary bureaucracy in WASH
ington. He said their contempt for
the people is being demonstrated
daily.
wallace pants in theatrical hor-
ror Of some mysterious and un-
named scoundrels whom he labels
American Fascists,'" Mr.. Landon
said. "All right, what is fascism?
Fascism is fundamentally nothing
but the philosophy that political
of1ceholders should run the people
instead of the people running the
political offlceholders. The New
Deal represents the first time in
American history that we have been
told brazenly that Washington bu-
reaucrats know more about how
each of us should live and eat and
work-and how we should earn and
spend our money-that Washington
bureaucrats know how much liberty
Is good for us--than we do our
selves"
Labels New Dealers Real Fascists.
9 Mr.. Landon charged that the New
dealers are the real Fascists in
sAmerican life today.
He said the Vice President in his
talk made no reference to the bung-
cling of the administration on the
shome front, disclosed by congress
ssional Investigations. The Vice
sPresident, he said, had only called
snames.
= Instead of clarifying the issues"
sMr. Landon said, "he evaded them
ssby the same old tactics of the mas
ster politician in the White House,
sby a glowing discussion of problems
star from the present and far from
sthe home front.