Evening star., 1944-10-30
Letters to The Star
Another Flins by Pros and Cons
As Election Day Nears.
To the Editor Of The Star:

Another Films by Pros and Cons
As Election Day Nears.
To the Editor Of The Star:
BY Gov. Dewey the amazing charge
was made in political speech that
President Roosevelt failed to prepare
the Nation for the impending war in
which we became engaged nine years
after his Inauguration. This charge,
echoed by other Republican leaders, has
now been reiterated by Congressman
Albert j. Engel. II the charge had been
true, Hitler would already have SUBJ
jugated all Of Europe and Africa and
be now preparing the invasion Of South
America, for in addition to equipping
our own armed forces we have sent to
Europe the guns, tanks and planes
which alone have prevented collapse
in that theater OF war before our effec-
tive entry at the fronts.
1t is because the President was very
early convinced that only the utmost
possible IN preparation could avail us,
that he demanded it and by his leader
ship was able against strong Republic
can opposition to secure enactment by
the Congress. He called for the manu-
facture Of $4,000 warplanes annually,
then regarded as impossible OF realiza-
ton, but that figure we doubled.
The three preceding Republican adj
ministrations had added to the Navy
only Is cruisers and o submarines-an
all-time low During his second year
IN the White House the President called
for program five and half times as
large as that put through in the whole
IL preceding years. superbattleships,
aircraft carriers, Is cruisers, 81 de-
stroyers and 80 submarines-and these.
against Republican opposition, were
promptly authorized and construction
started. The new battleships Washing
ton and North Carolina were ready be-
fore Pearl Harbor, and in fighting power
they more than Offset all the ships put
out Of action there.
A second stupendous naval construc-
ton program, twice as large as the first,
has already Q940) been enacted into
law, and today the United States new
Navy Is the undisputed mistress of the
SEAS" as our warplanes have made us
the mistress of the air. It is this
astounding equipment of our sea and air
forces that has reduced their relative
losses In battle to a point never before
known in the worlds history.
Hated by an isolationist group as has
been no American President except only
Washington and Lincoln, Franklin d.
Roosevelt is today the greatest of world
rgures, and is looked up to and admired
here and in the United Nations as is
no other To carry the war to a success
ful conclusion and to unite the nations
in securing satisfactory peace he is
the indispensable man.
WILLIAM HERBERT HOBBS,
To the Editor Of The Star:
Those groups which now are support-
ing President Roosevelt because of his
present seeming friendship for them,
should not forget the cases of James
Farley. Henry Wallace and many others
who once supported the President be-
cause OF his seeming friendship for
them, but who, after they had served
his political purposes, were relegated
to the doghouse.
Tne mothers and fathers of America
also should not forget that famous
again and again" assurance which was
given in Boston just before the last
election. And the business and pro-
1essional people of the Nation should
not forget that 1882 prediction promise
to balance the Federal budget.
J. j. sPERRY,
Woodstock, Va.
To the Editor of The Star:
The election this year is bound to be
close. The fourth-term candidate can
not win on his promise to keep us out
OF war, as he did last time And the
revulsion Of the voters towards the war
party will not reach its peak until after
the war is over. One important issue
recently has been raised by the Presi-
dents New York speech. The President
wishes our delegate to the proposed in
ternational body to have the power to
vote for sanctions and even the use of
force against Nation alleged to be an
aggressor-acts which would likely lead
us directly into war. OF course this
delegate would be appointed by the
President and, If Roosevelt Is reelected,
the delegate undoubtedly would be con-
trolled by him. He would therefore have
In effect the power to force the country
into foreign war all by himself, COM
pletly by-passing the powers of Con-
gress granted under the Constitution.
This is one-man- government carried to
the extreme.
HENRY c. PARKER.
To the Editor of The Star:
In your Letters to The Star" column
October rs, Paul M. Polk says,
Gov. Dewey stated in one of his
speeches that because no intelligent
policy has been advanced for the rule
Of Germany after her defeat, the Ger
mans are fighting with the desperation
of despair"
An Associated Press article August 21
said, "At news conference, Gov. Dewey
proposed the Observation-Disclosures of the
Ruhr Valley in Germany, chief mass
production center of the Axis state, as
one of the steps to be taken to prevent
future wars"
August 20 an upstate New York
newspaper, supporting Gov. Dewey, con-
sidered that, THE proposal might lead
to a fairer distribution of the products
of the valley, so that all nations of
Europe would share equally in essentials
to civilization"