The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
Governor Dewey Calls
Roosevelt Record Bad
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was to announce last May that he
was looking forward to a fifth
term?
At the outset. Dewey recalled
President Roose--'et's words when
he accepted a fourth term nomi-
nation: IT shall not campaign in
the usual sense. . In these : rs
of tragic sorrow I do not consider
it fitting. j.. -
Last Saturday night" the form
er New York rackets prosecutor
raped out, the man who wants
to be president or 16 years made
his first speech of this campaign.
Gone was his high sounding pledge.
Forg item were !.-ese days of tragic
sorrow.
Tt was the speech Of mud sling
ing, ridicule and wisecracks.
1T plumbed the depths of DEM
agogy by dragging into this CAM
paign the names of Hitler and
Goebbels; it descended to- quoting
from Mein Kampf and to reckless
charges of fraud and falsehood. >"
He had not intended, Dewey said,
to rake over my opponents sad
record of failing to prepare the de-
lenses of this country for war"
It's all in the pasta very trag-
ic past" he said. 1t has cos
countless American lives; it has
caused untold misery.
But Mr.. Roosevelt has now
brought t. subject up. He seized
violently upon the statement that
we were not prepared for war whe'
it came He calls that falsifica-
ton which no even Goebbels
should have - ~ooted.
''Now, were We prepared for ----~
or were we rot? 1t is a simple
question of fact.
In 1910 the year afte~ the W."
began in Euronc ~ Uni+od So -
was in such tragic condition that
it could put into the field as a
mob:'- 100 no more than $4,000
men. The arm was only '25 per
cent re~l--' Now, Mr.. Rooseve
did those statements come from
Goebbels? Was that fraud or falsi-
fication? Those were the words of
Gen. George c. Marshall, chief of
staff of the United States army,
under OATH
He then quoted General H. H
Arnold, chief of the Army Air For
ces, as having said las January
that the Pearl Harbor attack found
the Army Air Forces equipped
with plans but not with planes"
Four months before Pearl Har-
Dor, Dewey went on, Senator Tru-
man said during floor debate that
"there is only one place where the
responsibility can be putt for
what Dewey called the shocking
state of defense p-e',arations.
"Then Senator Vandenberg said''.
Dewey quoted, Where is that the
White House?' And the chairman
of the committee Truman) replied
Yes. sir.'''
Again he quoted Truman as hav-
ing said. on the Senate floor in
May, 1913, after Pearl Harbor
we found ourselves woefully un-
prepared for war;"
And in Senator Alben Barley
speech nominating Mr.. Roosevelt
for a fourth term at Chicago, Dew.
ey went on, the Kentucky demo
crat said, when the treachery OF
Pearl Harbor came we were not
ready
When he, Dewey, called for a
two-ocean Navy in January, 1910
the candidate al d, President
Roosevelt termed his statement as
Gust plain dumb
Then as now" he declared, we
got ridicule instead of action.
And when Hitler's armies were
at the gates of Paris, Mr.. Roose-
welt again soothed the American
people with the Jolly comment:
There is no need for the country
to be discomboomerated. ,"
''The simple truth is, of course, -
Dewey said, that Mr.. Roosevelt
record is desperately bad. 1t is no
one on which any man should seek
the confidence of the American PEG
pie"