The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-26
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER

By WEsTBROOK PEGLER
CHICAGO. - Although Sidney Hillnaan and
the communicated coalition have been mo-
mentarily rebuked by the reactionary, or
American democrats in their nomination OF
Harry Truman instead Of Henry Wallace for
the vice presidency, they will discover on
their arrival home when they have had time
to unpack and put on something loose that
their hero, President Roosevelt, has neither
repudiated this faction nor suffered any i'm.
pairment of its devotion to him.
The communicated, or popular front, is
still in action with its vast power to levy on
the pay Of millions Of workers for its cam
paign funds and Mr. Roosevelt still welcomes
its support. 1t is still a communist organiza-
tion infested with many men who not only
oppose the American system of government
with propaganda and systematic organization
but in times past, have gone into the streets
in violent, laWless rebellion against the auth
GRITTY OF government in many American COM
munties at the cost of many American lives.
1t still represents the will and purposes of
many men who showed their hatred of the
United States as nation by impeding the
early preparations of the Americans for war
while the first classes of the draft were train
ing with broom-handles and stove pipes.
These are general accusations which l shall
develop in detail in few days, realizing that
the term communists" has lost some of it's
evil meaning through careless use and the
new deals propaganda to the effect that any,
one who is '1iberal' or a ''progressive' is
likely to be called communist these days
incidentally, Mrs. Roosevelt, who did not come
to this convention but made speech at the
last one, is of those who have tried to
persuade the country that certain groups
meaning those VINO consort with communists,
if not the communists themselves, are mis-
understood martyrs to their harmless convic-
tons.
This convention did for the Democratic par
ty something that Mr.. Roosevelt was unwilling
to do either for the party or for himself. By
spreading his approval over a number of as
pirants for the vice presidency, the Presi-
dent made it possible for the reactionaries to
get rid of Wallace and nominate a protegc
of one of the most degraded politicians IN
American urban history, Tom Pendergast, of
Kansas City. That as far as he would
go however, toward reputation of Hillman's
group SO he left himself still in a position
to cooperate with them in the campaign and,
if elected to collaborate throughout fourth
term or as long as he might hold office in
that term.
The fact remains hugely apparent that the
Hlllman front is creature of President Roos-
evelts own. He is fond of personal compare
DSi'S
fashioned the clay and breathed life into it
with definite intent The CLIO is the mother
of the Hillnan front known both as the Po-
lltcal Action Committee and Citizens Com
mlttee for Political Action Mr. Roosevelt hu-
rnored his creation through it's violent attacks
on government in many helpless cities and
towns, condoned it's brutalitles and, far from
rebuking Frank Murphy the governor OF Mich
igan, for flinching in the presence OF mobs,
endorsed Murphys betrayal of the Americans
of Michigan, by sending him to the Supreme
Court.
At this convention, sensing the revolt of
the Americans and their INDECENT adherence
of the conspiracy Mr.. Roosevelt permitted
his party to sacrifice Wallace. But Wallace
was not running for the presidency. He was
running for the vice presidency. Mr.. Roose-
welt was already the presidential nominee,
even before the opening gavel, and Hlllman' S
front was even more enthusiastic for him than
for Wallace Thus, Hillman got n Il first
choice and there is nothing in past perform
ances to Justify the slightest hope among the
American democrats that Mr.. Roosevelt will
turn against the communists, II rejected.
He has already shown his regard Tor the
communists in the parcel OF Earl BroWder,
the titular leader of the conspiracy, IN the
interests of unity in his connlvance at the
cancellation of a deportation oroer against
BroWder's wife, an active, anen-poih COM
,munist, and in the grant OF ora1t oelerH1ents
r. Number of Go unioneers who, by violent
action, led strikes against american war
n1.nts DURING the life of Stains alliance with
Adolf Hitler The Hlllman 1ront Is sel1l Mi'
Roosevelt's own communist wing