Milford chronicle., 1948-04-23

he took office. Mr.. |
Truman lacked the |
knowledge, experience and pres
ence Of mind to decide Immediately
that Roosevelt had betrayed the |
United States. Therefore he began
his presidency by carrying out the
undertakings that Roosevelt had as.
sufned.
Il took him . year 70 admit TO
himself that this was q course
harmful and unfaithful to the
United States, and somewhat
longer TO reverse Il. This be has
finally done IN effect but, Of
course, without saying in 50 many
words that Roosevelt had let
Stain make q fool Of him or that
Roosevelt deliberately dO1ble-
crossed the civilized nations.
It is too bad that
Methods we do not maintain
Are an array Of garters,
IIonFicnI cordons and rosettes
Win WHICH 10 ASSu@
age the sorrow Of ultimate failure
and dismissal when men make ter.
rible mistakes in high office. Gen.
George Marshall should have one
with diamonds on 1.-THE order Of
the One-way neck, first-class. He
remained cadet all his life. Even
when he had five stars on each shoul-
der, he was always nodding 'tyes.'
After Roosevelt was gone he began
to discover facts about Stain and his
regime that all honest Americans
who concerned themselves at all
about politics had known all along.
A depressing aspect Of the situa-
ton is the duplication in Europe Of
the high-handed and calculated pro-
CedUre Of the Nazi regime, . he said
recently. ''The organization Of the
satellite states under the methods Of
the police state formula was carried
out rather quietly.
''The tale-OveF Of Hungary was
. bOlder exhibition Of the same
technique. The directed and To-
mented strikes IN France and Italy
were evidence a. the same direC-
tiOn and procedure. The CzechO-
sIovakia incident, however, was
bold and truCulent, quite evidently
staged to impress the people Of
Finland and the remainder Of the
free states Of western Europe. This
is worldwide struggle between
freedom and tyranny"
General. Marshall must be too in
telligent not to have known when
Roosevelt showed him the first fate
ful signs Of favoritism that this was
the character of the Russian rulers.
Roosevelt himself knew it but he
simply could not think honestly.
In 1910, some may
DiSO1UHS remember, Roosevelt
The was having Commu-
COmnaiea mist trouble and want
ed to disown them,
and throw them on Wendell Willkie.
Communist support was an ernbar.
rassment Just then because the Com.
munists and Hitler were allies.
To achieve this effect Roosevelt
got the department Of justice to issue
q deportation order against the wife
Of Earl Browder. Then the Demo
cratic national committee turned out
a statement boasting that the same
department Of justice had convicted
Browder himself and sent him to
prison for falsely swearing to get an
American passport to carry on Rus
sian espionage in Europe. Finally,
toward the close Of the campaign,
Roosevelt made a speech in Brook
lyn in which he repudiated Commu-
mist support.
Two years later, the same de-
paFtment Of justice invented for
Mrs. BrOWdeF's special benefit the
shyster trick Of crossing into Cana.
da ana Fe-enteFing the United
States as q quota immigrant. The
same trick later was used By Mrs.
ROOsevelt's friend and political
prOtege, Hams Eisler, enc Of the
worst COnspiratOFs. ana BY thOu.
sands Of doubtful refugees. One
American consul resigned in pro-
test at this rotten dodge in the
Irene BFOwdeF case.
Soon afterward, Roosevelt re-
leased Browder from Atlanta and,
Of course, all Of US, except perhaps
Marshall and Truman, know that il
was necessary to detail FBI men to
the state department to turn up Com
munist spies planted there through
the White House. These are facts.
Communists in the labor relations
board. Communists in the depart
ment Of justice. In vthe war ana
navy departments In Puerto Rico.
In the office Of war information and
the communications commission. In
the CLIO. Thousands Of them known
to everyone willing to make the ef-
fort to learn and honest enough to
admit the truth to himself.
THE PLACE TO BEGIN FIGHT
ING COMMUNISM IS IN THE
0 STATES.