The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-27

tAGatB " eNGT bH " v ! Cco there is a very large segment that respects the latter highly. and a substantial body of voters with whom his stand, if not compelling, might be influential.
 Governor Dewey shies away rom any attempt to get him to discuss the Willkie situation. It should be noted, however. that he does so without prejudice, leaving the door open for Mir. Willkie to do this year what MT. Dewey did in l94O.
 Then, it will be recalled, Dewey appeared to have the nomination pretty well sewed up. At the last minute an almost evangelical wave swept Willkie into the candidacy and left Dewey gasping on the shore.
 Among politicians and newspaper men it was no secret that Dewey was burned to a crisp. For a few days he sizzled, of the record except for one betrayal of confidence Then he calmed down and went to work for the man who had done him out of the nomination.
 DEWEY LENT
 WILLKIE ADVISERS
 When Mr. Willkies early cam- paign threatened to explode from lack of management, like tanker of aviation gasoline hit by a torpedo, Mir. Dewey gave leave of absence to his personal publicity man, Lemoyne Jones, to help out. He lent the serv- ices of his personal adviser on goy- ernment finance, Elliott V. beIl' now his superintendent of banks.
 He took to the stump Tor the Willkie ticket, making two speeches near New York City and two mld" western trips in the course of when he spoke in Saginaw, Pittsburgn. Peoria, Caldwell, Idaho, kansas City and Cleveland.
 The grounds for personal bitter ness between the two men were no less than they are now; the bases of their philosophical disagreement probably were greater inasmuch as MT. Willkie was foremost inter- yentionist while Mir. Dewey at that time teamed against intervention,
 Therefore Republicans, including many of MT. Willkie's more ardent adherents in le40 and up to the time he stepped out of his years race, wonder what formula can be Iouhd for bringing the two men together now, for the good of the party and, as they see 1t, for the good Of tne country,
 DEMOCRATS WANT THE
 BREACH WIDENED
 Democrats and other Roosevelt supporters hope that the present breach can be Kept open or even Widened, They would like to see Willkie bolt back to bis old party or take an 0stentatious walk for the duration of the campaign,
 Realists doubt that this will oes eur, Coneeding that MT, Wlllkle IS utterly sincere and would snbordlnv ate personal advantage to principles, they insist that he would lose every possibility of putting across ms pe' llefs if he were either to bolt or 10 walk, They point, as evidence, to the innoeuous desuetude in which ~ Smith and John w. Davis now stag' nate politically,
 The ditllculty appears to De ID finding a way to establish the Drst contact without embarrassment to either man, peweyltes appear to feel that tDelr leader went as faF as ne well could when, at his first press conference after the n0mlnatioD, ne was asked; "Will MT Wlllkle be ln' VIted into conference on campaign stTetegyp
 v certainly hope to consult all leaders of the Republican party ana receive the benefit of theIF advice" he replied,
 "Includlng Wlllkie9'
 "CeTtajnly," said MT, Dewey