Evening star., 1944-03-24
WiIIkie Asserts u. ).
Should Be Protector
OF Smaller Nations
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RACINE, Wis, Mar. 24.-Wendell
L. Willkie says the United States
should become bulwark against
the violation of the rights of small
nations.
The candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination developed
this theme here last night in a
speech IN which his hoarse voice
betrayed the strain of his strenuous
campaign and of a cold contracted
In New York.
He said a nation can look after
Its own interests like an individual
looks after his home. But as an in
dividual supports the community
fire and police departments, 80 I
assume it is to the mutual self-in-
terest of the United States, Great
Britain, Russia and the other coun-
tries to put out the fires of aggres-
sion and destroy the bandits before
they destroy civilization"
Small nations, however, do not
have the power to stand up against
a neighbor two or three times as
large, Mr.. Willkie said, and their
salvation Is in settlement of disputes
by adjudication rather than by
force.
Every time = the rights of a
small nation are being violated" he
asserted, go think this Govern
ment should speak up in protest"
Denies "Oratory Charge"
Mr.. Willkie today was to finish his
first week of his 12-day campaign
in Wisconsin in behalf of delegates
pledged to him in the State primary
April with addresses at rallies at
Beloit and GAINESVILLE.
He declared last night that
charges of campaigning oratory"
made against him because of his
promises and pledges in the 1910
presidential campaign were purely
false"
He said that the Senator who
made that charge against him in a
congressional hearing later in the
presence of so newspapermen told
me that he had told a falsehood
and he had the good grace to
apologize for falsehood."
Mr.. Willkie discussed what he
called Misrepresentation and false
hood about me" in his speech at
Memorial Hall.
They say that I want to give
away America and boondoggle the
world" he said. How do thev
think I got where I am from the
mud flats of Indiana, by being a
nut?"
I have been called both a Com
munist and capitalists man of
enormous wealth who yet seeks to
soclallze America. I am neither"
Hits COP Stand in 1910.
Earlier at Kenosha, Mr.. Willkie
asserted the reason the Republican
party failed in 1910 was its opposi-
tion to greater American partic-
1patlon in the war effort at that
time.
He said that selecting a 1914
presidential candidate on presumed
experience, that being Governor
Tor one or two or four or six years
qualities him regardless of prin-
clples, seems to me perfect
adaptation of the Administrations
policy" He said that is flattering
by imitation"
If the argument is on the basis
OF Government experience I'VE have
lost it before we start" Mr.. Willkie
asserted.
Nobody ever has had as much
experience as President as Franklin
Roosevelt. On that basis MIR.
Roosevelt would be a much more
imposing candidate in 1948, and
more so in 1852 and by 1856 or 1860
there would be no use in running
anybody against him"
Opposes Dewey Plan.
In a reference to postwar interna-
tlonal cooperation Mr.. Willkie said
1t cannot be done with one other
nation-that would divide the world
into two camps and enlarge areas
OF preparedness for the next war"
Don't be misled by that kind of
stuff. A union of the English speak
ing peoples of the world would first
drive the rest of the world into an
alliance against U.S."
Cat the Mackinac Island con-
ference, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
OF New York-also mentioned for
the Republican nomination-pro-
posed at a press conference a
British-American alliance.)
The reason I was not elected
President in 1910 was because I had
to lug the load of members of my
party opposing selective service
transfer of so destroyers to Great
Britain, more and more aid to Brit
ain," he asserted, and the Republic
an party won't prevail in 1914 iii
1t pursues a similar course"