Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10
Republican Dean
Said To Be Above
Political Rows
THOMPSON
Dorothy Thompson

OOrOtny thompson
Governor Dewey's campaign
has been conducted throughout
On an exceptionally high level.
Though the Governor may not
appreciate what is sincerely in
tended as a compliment, it re-
calls President Roosevelt's war
time campaigns when he rose
above party politics to speak
the nation.
The Dewey campaign recogniz
ses an International crisis graver
than that of 1914 when, though
in war, there was well-founded
anticipation Of speedy victory,
and when all entertained sincere
hope-with whatever reasonable
reservations of doubt-that the
successful wartime coalitio
would continue into further cor
dial cooperation.
Today that hope is shattered.
Peace rests upon a balance of
power in which not the will to
cooperate prevents war, but ra-
Their the fear, each of the others
military power-the Russians of
Americas air capacity and
atomic bombs, the Americans of
the vast Russian land armies
and Russia S incompatible stra-
tegic position in the "heartland"
Of Eurasia.
Governor Dewey and his ad-
visers have recognized that such
a time-when the United States
has become, by force of circum-
stance, the guardian Of what is
left Of Western civilization-is not
appropriate for partisan accusa-
tons and claims in foreign af-
fairs. The times call for inter-
nal unity for credit given where
credit is due, and for raoderat-
ing accusations of past errors
and lapses by recognizing that
what has been i'll done is beyond
recall.
The highest point in the cam
paign was reached by Senator
Vandenberg in his speech on Mon
day. 1t had the noble Cireronian
quality befitting an elder states
man. ! suspect that Senator Van
denberg writes his own rather
rare speeches because they al
ways display that strict unity of
content and style that hardly is
achieved by carpentering toge-
Their the memoranda Of advisers
however gifted and eloquent.
Senator Vandenberg stood not
only on the platform of reason
able ideas but also on the ground
Of solid achievement, for he is
the man who resisted pressures
within his own PParty to drag
foreign police into the arena of
partisanship. This contributed
most toward the creation of a
national foreign policy, without
no nation can servive.
The Senator truthfully could
say that whatever the other me-
rits or dement's of the Eightieth
Congress, its record in foreign
relations is memorable. He
truthfully could claim that Re-
publican collaboration with the
Democratic executive has not
been blind and indiscriminate
but rather the result of excep-
tional elaboration, leading to
many construction notifications.
Nor can anyone except those
who translate all words to fit
preconceived theories-make out
OF Senator Vandenberg's speech
an appeal to warmongering.
Seldom has the case against mo-
dern wars been put more
succinctly than in his phrase:
These are principles of intel
igent American sef-mterest in
a fore-shortened world when not
even the winners of aother war
can afford their victory"
That is not the belief of a man,
a party or a nation seeking
world conquest or world domino
ton, as we currently are accused
by those who have nominated US
as the enemy"
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