Evening star., 1943-06-28
New Deal Reputation
Dead , Mrs. Luce Tells
Wisconsin COP
Womon Representative
AssoiIs RooseveIt's Home
And Foreign Policies
BY the Associated Press.

APPLETON, Wis, June 28-Rep-
resentative Glare Boothe Luce, de-
claring that the Federal admins
tration had offered only false Sc
curity, asserted yesterday that
Americans would demand a postwar
victory that would guarantee free
and ever expanding economy"
In a keynote address before the
Wisconsin Republican Convention,
the Connecticut playwright-Con-
gresswoman told delegates the New
Deal reputation was dead on the
home front and that President
Roosevelt could survive 1t only by
convincing the people his foreign
policy is sound.
- This he cannot do" she added.
To-day what all Americans want
from the cradle to the grave is real
pportunity-not the New Deals
false security" she said. To-day,
what all Americans will demand is
a victory which, in a postwar Amer
lea governed by just men and just
laws, will guarantee us the free and
ever extending economy of which
this greatest of nations is capable.
"The New Deal Is Dead"
This is the challenge to the
Republican party and I believe that
the 1914 Republican party will meet
it. It will become the ma jority party
in the Nation as you are in this
State already" -
Mrs. Luce said that THE New
Deal is dead, SO far as its reputa-
ton on the home front goes. 1t can
only survive If it can convince the
people that President Roosevelt's
foreign policy is and was sound.
This 1t cannot do because the
New Dealers had no positive for
eign policy and has none now ex-
cept that it is borrowed temporarily
from our British cousins. While
that is better than nothing, it is
still, for the United States, Sec
ond best
Let us once and for all face
this fact. The same philosophy OF
charity as government which has
inspired the New Deal at home will
inspire the New Deal abroad.
"WPA at home will become WPA
abroad. Washington bureaucracy
will become world bureaucracy and
all will be run overseas with the
same juggernaut inefficiency with
which 1t has been run at home"
All Dazzle Dust Terms"
Mrs. Luce asserted the present
administration had no coherent
policy unless it's keeping it secretly
to itself"
And let us. get this clear" she
added. The Four Freedoms are
not a policy. They are simply ex-
pressions of principles and senti-
ments which are totally incapable
Of application to the whole world
Indeed they are only capable Of
application to parts of the world in
which our Nation embraces foreign
policy vigorous enough to compile
ment them.
Windy, high-f1o talk of world
councils, regional federations, world
federations, world government,
world police forces, or even another
league of nations-indeed, talk of
any machinery for so-called collec-
tive security is meaningless unless
our statesmen first collect their wits
and decide how America can best
secure herself. These are all dazzle
dust terms"
Charity is, what you are given
when you don't get justice. Then
you get doles, handouts, WPA-ism,
special subsidies and special bene-
fits to the favored and special
groups within tbe economy"
She declared that Government
bureaucracy had become "one of the
most unpopular and tyrannical sys-
TENS that had ever been set up in
the Nation"
Mrs. Luce said that she under
stood there was some question in
Wisconsin about the "isolationists"
and the "interventionists." /
If an isolationist is or was a man
who wanted to stay out of the war,
then I am an isolationist and so, I
believe, was everybody in the United
States before Pearl Harbor.
Foreign Policy Is Issue.
IF we Republicans are going to
be smeared because we refuse to ac-
cept Mr.. Roosevelt's foreign policy,
we had better discover quickly what
1t is we are being smeared for. We
mad better examine Mr.. Roosevelt's
foreign policy closely and at once,
because if the New Deal is reelected