Evening star., 1944-11-05
New York Speech
Charges BungIine
Costs u. S. Lives
(Tert on Page A-I2.)
]. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent,


NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Gov
Thomas E. Dewey tonight
charged the Roosevelt admins
tration with prolonging the war
and costing American lives by
"improvised meddling," as he
reached the climax of his cam
paign for the presidency before
"A 900 persons in the traditional
Madison Square Garden rally.
His charge was directed chiefly
at the publication of what purported
to be Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthaus proposal for reducing
postwar Germany to an agricul-
tural state. The reported plan to
strip Germany of her industry stiff
ened Nazi resistance, Gov. Dewey
said. adding:
ut means that the blood of our
fighting men is paying for this i'm
provised meddling which is so much
part and parcel OF the Roosevelt
administration. And, at the very
moment when his own confused in
competence has thus prolonged the
war in Europe, Franklin Roosevelt
goes on the radio and claims for
himself the credit for everything
our engineers, our war workers, our
industry, our farmers and our fight
ing sons have done"
Gov. Dewey revealed he either had
heard or had been advised of the
Presidents Boston speech by de-
claring that Mr.. Roosevelt repeated
lone hour ago" his statement to
the country last Thursday that the
war still had a long way to 60
He prefaced this comment by re-
calling the prediction of Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower as recently as
September /, that Germany could
be beaten in 1914 if everyone at
home would do his part"
Says Facts Are Withheld.
Asking his audience what has
happened in two motnhs to cancel
Gen. Eisenhower's prediction, the
New York Governor answered him
self by declaring:
''Mr. Roosevelt has not told us
the whole story. but part OF it we
know. Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.
Churchill held conference in
Quebec. Our Secretary of State
was absent. Our Secretary of War
was absent. In their stead Mr..
Roosevelt took with him that mas
ter Of military strategy and foreign
affairs, the Secretary of the Treas
ury, with his private plan for dis
posing of the German people after
the war. The plan was so clumsy
that Mr.. Roosevelt himself finally
dropped it-but the damage was
done.
'The publishing of this plan while
everything else was kept secret was
Just what the NaN propagandists
needed. That was as good as 10
fresh German divisions. 1t put
fight back into the German army;
it stiffened the will of the German
nation to resist. Almost overnight
the headlong retreat of the Ger
mans stopped. They stood and
fought fanatically."
Reports of the Morgenthau
plan asserted 1t had caused q
rift in the Presidents War Cab
met between Mr.. Morgenthau
and Secretary of State Hull and
Secretary of War Stimson. Presi-
dent Roosevelt was asked about
this split at his news conference
September 20 and calied it a
newspaper story. Asked whether
he meant there was no founda-
ton for the report of the split,
he said no, that every story which
had come about it was essen
TALLY untrue in basic facts. He
emphasized basic but did not
name the facts he considered
untrue)
In support Of his charge Gov
Dewey quoted the military expert
of a weekly magazine, as well as q
press dispatch from the front.
The press dispatch he quoted set
forth that home front talk OF stern
treatment for Germany after its de-
feat had inspired bitter resistance
and described soldiers on the firing
line as expressing the wish THAT
(see DEWEY, Page A-4D