Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-08
FOURTH TERMERS STOP
AT NOTHING

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There is loose on the country crowd
of desperate New Dealers, senators, rep
resentativeS, and would-be Job holders
who are stopping at nothing IN their ell
forts to continue in power. Some OF tnelr
statements are ludicrOus, some pll1Gi.
but all to one point-reelect the com
mander-in-chief or the war Is lost ana
there will be no peace.
1t seemed that the limit had been reach
ed in the things these "laSt-gasperS are
saving. but the mouthings of Senator
Claude Pepper of Florida, now on the
west coast win the gonfalOn. 1t is the
same Pepper who tried to put over one
of the New Deals greatest steals IN
worthless proiects-the Florida canal.
1t is the same Pepper who not only wor~
ships at the shrine of the New Deal, but
who erected the shrine itself.
In a public statement this week Iii
Seattle this desperate fourth termer de-
clared without equivocatlon that unless
the commander-in-chief is reelected Rus
sia can not be induced to join the United
States in the war against the JapS, with
the intmatiOn that even the war we'll
may be lost if the nation makes change.
The best thing Pepper and all the rest
of the present powers behind the throne
at Washington can do is to say nothing
at all about the war in the Pacific.
They better do their best to keep the
spotlight off much that has happened
there if they know what is good for them
selves. lust. as they are preventing the
facts of Pearl Harbor from coming into
the open through refusal to permit the
court-martial of Short and kimmel to be
held.
The very thing that Pepper boasts that
only Roosevelt can bring about is one of
the things the American people whose
sons are being slaughtered in the Pacl-
fic. are wondering about. If Peppers idol
has been unable to swing Russia onto
our side all this time, it is a pertinent
ouestion-What assurance is there that
Stain can be moved to fight Japan after
Germany is defeated? Plainly Stain
will have accomplished h S purpose
when Hitler is done for and there will
be an even greater reason why he will
not break with Japan.
Says this wind iammer from the Ever
glades Under President Roosevelt many
factors promise Russian participation in
the cleanup of the war against Japan,
with the resultant saving of tens of
thousands of American lives, billions OF
, dollars and much time"
This from the arch-New Dealer. 1t is
iworse than plain demagoguery it is
disgraceful attempt to hold out prom
ise to the parents of the men out there
fighting. Pepper knows full well that
Stain will or will not, of his own accord,
move against Japan and when or how,
God alone knows.
And, you, man Pepper,-what have
you to say for you and your New Deal
administration about the thousands of
American boys who already have lost
their lives in the Pacific, fighting muir
derous, ruthless foe against heavy odds
of men and fighting equipment? If you
can't answer, ask your fourth term boss
But there is more of the same kind of
deliberate attempts at misleading those
who are demanding an accounting of the
war against the Nips. Says the Floridan:
Roosevelt can get Russia on our side
as soon as Germany is whipped. We
could pour troops into Siberia through
Alaska E." and so showing how Russia
as an ally could help defeat Japan What
is new in that? And why has not Mr..
Roosevelt been able to even get Stains
consent to permit American troops and
planes and equipment through this same
channel in all the weary, bloody and dis
heartening months of fighting since Pearl
Harbor?
And here is the tops from Pepper:
"Stalin is a realist. If Roosevelt is de-
feated, Stain will reason that there is