Evening star., 1944-10-06
Roosevelt
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sue, President Roosevelt touched
on the recent disclosure by the
House Campaign Expenditures Com
mittee that one Republican SEN
ator and dozen Republicans
ip the House had franked out
more than 5000, 900 copies of q
speech by Representative Busbey
Republican, Of Illinois attacking the
Political Action Committee headed
by Sidney Hillman.
While he did not identify the doc
ument, which, he pointed out, had
been distributed through the coun-
try "at the taxpayers expense" the
President left no doubt as to what
he had in mind.
Now, let us look at this document
to see what made it so important
to f3 Republican leaders at this
stage of the war when many mil
lions of our men are fighting for
freedom" the Chief Executive con-
tinued
We'll, this document says that the
red spectre of communism is stalk
ing our country from East to West,
from North to South.'-the charge
being that the Roosevelt administra-
ton Is part of a gigantic plot to sell
our democracy out to the Com
munists.
Form Of Fear Propaganda.
This form of fear propaganda is
not new among rabble rousers and
fomenters of class hatred-whc
seek to destroy democracy itself
1t was used by Mussolini's Black
Shirts and by Hitler's Brown Shirts.
1t has been used in this country
by the Silver Shirts and others on
the lunatic fringe. but the sound
and democratic instincts of the
American people rebel against its
use. particularly by their own Con-
gressmen--and at the taxpayers
expense"
While the President disavowed
any attempt to seek support of the
Communists, he emphasized that
that does not in the least inter-
fere" with Americas friendship
with Soviet Russia.
THE kind of economy that suits
the Russian people is their owr
affair" he said.
Reply to Dewey Criticisms.
The speech afforded an opportu-
nifty for further reply to criticism.
by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, his Re-
publican opponent, but the Presi.
dent confined himself to an oblique
denial of the opposition assertion
that the administration propose.
to hold men in the armed service
because of fear there will not be
jobs for them on the outside.
Pointing to the specific prohibi.
ton against such a course in tn,
reconversion legislation signed thi!
week, the President said that q,
seems a pity that reckless words
based on unauthoritative sources
should be used to mislead and te
weaken the morale of our men or
the fighting fronts and the mem.
bers Of their families here at home.
1t was the second time Mr.. Roose.
velt has taken cognizance OF this
phase OF the Republican attack.
Pledges Relaxing Of Controls.
President Roosevelt promised thai
the controls essential in wartime
Will be relaxed as soon as possible
but once more he warned that athi,
war for the preservation OF our
civilization Is not won yet"
Asserting that German and
Japanese resistance remains as de-.
termined-as fanatical-as ever
despite Allied successes, he con.
tinued:
The guns Of Hitler's Gestapo arr
silencing those German officers whr
have sense enough to know thai
every day that the fighting con.
tinues means that much more ruiz
and destruction for their beater
country. We shall have to fight oul
way across the Rhine--we may have
to fight every inch Of the way {
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