The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

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CHICAGO, - For the benefit Of those who
may be frightened by some parts of the plat
form on which Tom Dewey and John Bricker
will stomp and fetch up dust these next few
months, it might be explained that presidents
never do execute their platforms entirely but
do so selectively and with political dscrimina.
ton Mr.. Dewey thus will be permitted to at.
tend to first things first and fulfill smaller
less convenient or silly undertakings later on,
if ever.
This has been President Roosevelts method
through three full terms in office and if he
could preserve sufficient power to draft him
self for fourth term on such a record OF
non performance and reputation Mr.. Dewey
need stand in no fear. Charges of insincerity
would be premature, anyway, n d if Mr..
Roosevelts friends, including his communist
auxiliary, undertake to try Dewey on charges
of mere intention not to keep all his promises,
his hot eyed patriots will run to the lumber.
room for a large store of discarded demo.
cratic planks and start a fire to burn the op-
position down.
The campaign should be more than ordi-
narily rough because Mr. Big, Ickes, Wallace
and others have always been partial to tom
cat rules and they can't change now.
I have no authority to say that any re.
sponsible Republican campaigner has any in.
tention to use the knee the laces or the thumb
gratuitously, but think that, after the new
dealers have indicated how they intend to
fight, the Republicans will do it their way
but better. 1t will be worth remembering, too
that almost anything said in criticism of Mr.
Roosevelt will be denounced as a dirty at.
tempt to discredit the presidency of the United
States. That has been heard already
Nevertheless, the Pearl Harbor disaster and
he ~ Nv ~,
vestigators will be examined loudly in many
an open meeting. Thus, on election day, the
President certainly will find himself defen
dant on charges of dereliction and il-iudg
ment SO disastrous as to warrant the removal
if not the dismissal without honor, of military
commander in similar circumstances.
The CIO will be effectively and probably
formally abandoned to the Roosevelt party
as communist political auxiliary. The Re
publicans don't want the CLIO. 1t has had nc
more place in this convention than the Dem
ocratic party, because it is section Of that
party. The American Federation of Labor, or
the other hand, has been praising Dewey with
faint damns and is growing, if not more at
fectionate, then, anyway, less hostile, the A.
F. of L. is caught in a fix. If it supports
Roosevelt it supports the CLIO which is mo-
merely a rival but a deadly enemy of the
A. F. of L.
Governor Bricker undoubtedly Will sound OF
on the plan of the communists in Mr.. Rose
velt's following to whipsaw the returned Amer
lean fighting men by little strikes in key
plants. The plan is being talked up in Ohio
now The communists are sneering at pa
triotic foolishness' in the crisis of war aNc
looking to a day when they will have a free
right to call strikes for revolutionary purposes
They have adopted General Spaatz's idea, re
vealed when the American bon1bers smashed
the ball bearing plants in Germany anc
strangled their production of planes, subma
rines and all land vehicles which can't move
without bearings
If the communists carry out their plan tt
strike the ball bearing plants the motor
industry would have to shut down and the
section of the steel and glass industries, too
because the automobile plants would then have
no use for steel glass.
i Under such conditions the returned veteran:
won't be able to get jobs or buy new car.
or make homes and the revolution will b.
here under the auspices of Mr.. Roosevelt
communist auxiliary. Mr.. Bricker, being gov
ernor of Ohio, heavy industry state, vii
then be able to reveal the plan more fully
by way of proving to the Americans in thu
union movement that the preventive is lega
j regulation Of unions.