The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-07
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER

making people think.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
ST. LOUIS, Aug. Cat this distance it is
possible to examine more clearly specimens
of propaganda which, amid the general cla-
NOR OF contlnentalism on the eastern seaboard
are indistinct noises in the campaign.
should like to discuss q United Press dis
patch published in today's So. Louis Star-Times
highly beholden new deal paper and not red.
nor even pink, but of that pale orange hue
which comes Of mixing very little red with
liberal splash of another primary color,
The U. P. Rsported that Russell Davenport
would not support Tom Dewey for the presi-
dency.
Not one American in 100000 ever has heard
of Russell Davenport. He Is identified as the
editor of Fortune, which sells by subscription
only for $40 year and thus hardly be
called well known magazine. Davenport is
qualified as quote-worthy person because he
was a "close associate" of Wendell Willke in
1910.
Right Questioned
millions of other republicans will find it
necessary to make that decision not to sup
port Dewey, Davenport was enabled to say on
crowded press wires and on scarce white
paper, as though this man had recognized
right to speak for multitudes. But has he?
He represents no party. Even in the 1910 cam
paign he had no position in the republican
party. He was at most, sleeve-puller for
a personal hero. Such advertisement as he
has had, was derived from this association
and the fact that he is the husband of Marcia
Davenport who wrote some books.
Yet, by exercise of the suave effrontery of
the con man who greets the sucker with a
booming well if it isn't my old friend, Joe
Bush," the unsuspecting victim is given to
feel that he really does know Russell Daven-
mort For the moment fhrOlI oh his Still
pidity, he just can't place him.
Davenport announced his decision at forum
Of the newly organized New York Liberal
party. The reader is too proud to admit that
he doesn't know what the Liberal party is.
1t is what the communists call fraction, or
theological offshoot, of the communist party.
1t is, in other words, minority of a European
group of naturalized but unassimilated New
York immigrants, whose leaders came here
as refugees from the Car of Russia. While
four million Americans were fighting the
Kaiser's tyranny in France, most of these
leaders, secure and comfortable in New York,
tried to promote bloody revolution against
the American government
The American Labor party, or communist
party now controlled by Frank Roosevelt S
henchman Sidney Hillman, advocates the Rus
sian type Of Dictatorship and lawless agrees
sion expressed against Finland and in the
partition of Poland Daveport's friends of the
Liberal party prefer the Hitleria type of die
tatorship but, of course without anti-semit-
ism.
ANGEL
Both groups agree, however on all the es-
sentials of totalitarian rule. They agree fur
ther Roosevelt's candidacy. and their only
discord is personal rivalry between Hillman
and David Dubinsky Of the Garment Workers
union, refugees both, who found here priv
lege, luxury and safety, but never have liked
the way the Americans run their country.
Neither group has the slightest objection to
persecution, of itself. Violence against Ameri-
can workers refusing to join a union, or to
strike on the orders of union dictators, no less
savage than the brutalities Of Hitler's Brown
Shirts, has left them calm. Hideous SANDERS
| against decent Americans equivalent to Der
Fuehrer's filthy anti-Jewish propaganda, is
their common repartee. They force Ameri-
cans who detest their ideas and candidates to
attend their political rallies and contribute to
their campaign funds.
| Davenport announced his decision about the
time that the primary returns revealed the
nomination for congress of Ham Fish, repub-
lican and Vito Marcantonio of the communist
front.
'For weeks he said Dewey resisted eft.
!, forts to draw from him reputation OF Ham
Fish on the basis of his obstruction of at
tempts to prepare the country for war;
! Marcantonio voted against every attempt