The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-17
By WESTBROOK PEGLE

ers. His articles serve the good purpose
Of making people think)
By wEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1945, by King Features syndicate)
A few years ago Henry Wallace declared that
the people had made mistake in a con-
gressional election which went against his
party and since then the political acton COM
mittee has agreed that they were in error on
that occasion. In fact, one stated purpose
If the PAC was to educate the citizens against
repetition Of the lapse in which they returned
batch of republicans.
am forced to agree with them that the
| neople can be wrong but am almost sure tney
will disagree with me when say the peopie
were wrong last fall in electing Mr. RooseVel1
| to a fourth term.
| Still I think it would have been wiser to
elect Tom Dewey because l believe that IN
that case the President of great republic
would not have gone to Yalta but would nave
made Stain come at least half way for once,
which would have been important to our ma
tional prestige and a gain for Christian NOR
atty in the world.
You may argue that this is small point and
the dicussion of it mere quibbling but my idea
is that the peoples of the world who looked to
US for leadership have not turned their eyes
and thoughts to Moscow because Stain always
makes Roosevelt and Churchill 60 to nm.
That is bad for morality in the world at large
because, after all, the world knows that STAIN
is lust about as bad as Hitler and We deceive
ourselves if we refuse to give it thought
1t isn't necessary to be abusive about it,
but he killed off more Russians before this
war began than our country had lost in all our
wars down to this one and he just isn't nice
or reliable fellow on his record AS military
ally. he has been great but we can't laugh OH
or howl down the facts that he is communist
and that, by his cerdo communist Pernll's'
Indeed obligates, himself to douole-croSS any
one in the interests of communism.
Once they said Stain was too busy chasing
| Germans to 20 farther than Teheran. Roose-
welt and Churchill had few little concerns OF
their own at the time but off they went,
nevertheless, to meet Stain. The inconvenl-
ence to Roosevelt must have been awful, much
as he loves to travel and much as he seems
to enjoy the ostentation of such bull sessions
in the old world. Newspaper practise up to
now has forbidden reference to the Presi-
dents infirmity but he himself took the gag
off when he publicly spoke Of the torture OF
hauling ten pounds OF steel around IN his
public appearances during all these years. so
it would have been easier all around II STAIN
had come to this Country or part OF the way
and by now the Americans were chasing just
as many Germans just as fast as the Rus
SLAMS.
I think an awful lot of good people in many
countries who hate and fear communism would
have taken hope if the people OF the Onlteo
States had elected Dewey. Naturally, ne "oulo
have cooperated with Stain in the 1ghtlng war
and, in the face of an inherited situation he
could not have refused to discuss and plan
peace.
But Dewey surely would have given us and
the rest of the world sign by running out of
Washington all Of those pro-communlstS and
convert communists who have been hooking
so many good and decent Americans all these
years and calling them fascists during the war
even though they and their sons have been
overseas fighting fascism. Surely he would not
have nominated Henry Wallace for Jesse Jones
old jobs nor for any job at all, for that mat
| ter, except perhaps some useful toll IN war
factory. He would not have invited or permit
ted anyone to invite in his name the noisy
element of Hollywood and Broadway to the
inaugural lunch in the White House. very
depressing performance.
On two points, in my judgment Dewey has
been wrong. think he yielded to a condition
when he said, in Portland, Ore, that the Wag-
ner Act was good law. AS lawyer, ne knows
it Is lopsided because it makes the employer
the defendant in government court winch is
not only the judge but the plaintiff, prosecutor
and court of appeals. Possibly ne INTENDED,
once elected, to educate the people to the evil
of this law acquaint them with its European
character and revise it, step by step. The
other fault that find with his political wisdom
is his endorsement, since his defeat, of the
New York Anti-Discrimination bill.
Dewey never has shown the slightest racial
or religious prejudice AS district attorney
and as governor, he has been either utterly I'M
feeling studiously correct in his appoint
ments of Jews and Negroes, the two mlnorltles
to whose favor the Anti-Discrimination bill
was directed. But he had been so placed by
propaganda that, had he opposed the pro-
posal, the other side would have called him
Jew-baiter and Jim-Crow republican. Not only
he but his party would have suffered unfairly.
| insist that Dewey is a better man than
Roosevelt on every count and would have con-
tinued the war just as successfully as Roose-
welt has, point of doubt in the hearts OF many
voters last fall which may have been the de-
Gliding factor. He takes government seriously,
not flippantly. He governs by law, not by ear
and by prejudice. He is against special prlvl-
lege not only for the other side but from his
side and for himself and his family. And his
moral courage is such that if he had been
elected he would not have been afraid to dis
card the devious and dubious term democ'
racy'' and substitute Christianity or chris
tan ideals from time to time
:, Up to now just because Russia is athelstc'
and because democracy is an ambiguous
8 thing, we have suppressed our feelings ana
r beliefs and there has been no recognluon OF
any Divine power Another reason IS that any
such innovation would set the communists 10
bowling that Christian means antl-s eHl'lc'
nave eS-