Washington, D. C.
NO CABINET POST FOR WILLKIE
Rumors that Wendell Willkie will
be offered a cabinet post or chair
manship of the defense commission
are just rumors and no more. Roose
velt has no intention of unifying
along such lines.
After the 1938 campaign, the Pres
ident and Alf Landon went out of
their way to be friendly. The mel
low Kansan called at the White
House when he went to the Capitol
in December for a Gridiron club
dinner, and a year later Roosevelt
appointed him a member of the U. S.
delegation to the Pan-American con
ference in Lima. But with Willkie
the situation is entirely different.
Roosevelt deeply dislikes and dis
trusts him—a feeling, incidentally,
that is strongly reciprocated by
Willkie.
Privately, the President believes
that the G. O. P standard bearer's
campaign was motivated chiefly by
personal malice and went far out of
bounds of legitimate political war
ring in deliberate misrepresentation
and distortion.
On his side, Willkie feels just as
hotly regarding Roosevelt.
• • •
EUROPEAN APPEASEMENT
The story of imminent European
peace deals which floated around
London, Berlin and Washington just
before election was no myth.
Since November 5 these ideas are
dead.
Ever since Hitler's proposed in
vasion of England was frustrated
last September, Nazi diplomats have
sent out feelers to the effect that
Germany now had almost the entire
continent of Europe and might be
satisfied to drop the war, leaving
England to stick to its own islands.
Such a peace, of course, meets
no response from the great majority
of the British people, nor the govern
ment, and absolutely none from
Winston Churchill. However, it has
been received favorably by the little
group of "City" men (London's Wall
Street).
Diplomatic reports indicate that
had Willkie been elected, this group
would have launched a strong drive
for appeasement. This does not
necessarily mean they would have
had Willkie's blessing. But it means
that Wall Street groups in the United
States which think along exactly the
same lines as London's "City" were
all ready to co-operate in this drive
and expected to get support from
Willkie.
Latin American governments,
whose weather vane is the United
States and who study us with a
microscope, actually were getting
ready to warm up to Hitler. But
since November 5, the effect is just
the opposite.
* • •
PERSHING AS ENVOY TO VICHY
The situation inside France is such
that there is more and more senti
ment among administration advisers
to draft venerable John J. Pershing
as American ambassador to France.
It is believed General Pershing
could do a good job because of his
old friendship with Marshal Petain,
now No. 1 man in the Vichy govern
ment. The two were comrades in
arms during the World war, and
never do they meet without an af
fectionate embrace on both cheeks.
Should the French North African
army become active on behalf of
England, it would mean much not
only to the British but to the United
States, whose biggest worry con
cerning the Monroe Doctrine is that
a combination of German-Italian
forces might use Dakar, French
naval base on the bulge of Africa,
for operations against Brazil and
South America.
That is why "Papa" Pershing is
considered so important to influence
his old friend "Papa" Petain.
• • •
EXIT FANNY
Miss Frances Perkins, idealistic
secretary of labor, will not be in the
third Roosevelt cabinet.
She will be replaced as part of
the President's plan to put an end
to A. F. of L.-C. I. O. warring and
to bring about unification of the two
organizations. No. 1 on the Presi
dent's list for Miss Perkins' succes
sor is George Harrison, president
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks and a vigorous advocate of
labor peace.
# • •
MERRY GO ROUND
Probably the best campaigning
among the Roosevelt children was
done by Franklin Jr., whose wife is
Ethel duPont, daughter of Eugene
duPont. The far-flung duPont fami
ly contributed around $50,000 to the
Willkie campaign, but Ethel re
mained loyal to her in-laws.
Franklin's speeches were of a
rather naive, amateurish nature, but
they endeared him tremendously to
his father. Franklin would start
his speeches in most formal vein,
carefully referring to his father as
"the President." But when heckled
from the side, he usually forgot his
dignity and sometimes shouted, "my
ola man's a great guy," which al
ways brought down the house.
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles listened to election returns
until 4:15 a m. but was down at
his desk reading a telegram from
Greece by 9:30 a. m.
Election Night Crowd in Times Square
New York's Great White Way was the scene of election night excitement as great crowds Jammed Times
square to read the latest bulletins in the thrilling presi dential race. (Inset, left) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the
first President ever elected to a third term. (Inset, right) the newly elected vice president, Henry Wallace, former
secretary of agriculture.
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and day to complete the first of 27 new barracks to accommodate the 1940 batch of draftees. Each building
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in the basement of their Westminster borough home in London. The
bunks upon which they rest were installed by the Westminster council
which is providing them for all private shelters, to enable the populace
to obtain their proper rest and curb "air raid nerves."
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THE DANBURY REPORTER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1940
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The U. S. S. Swanson, new de
stroyer, sliding down the ways at
the Charleston, S. C., navy yard.
It was christened by Mrs. Claude
Swanson, wife of the,late secretary
of the navy.
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bassador to the 11. S., who deliv
ered to Secretary Cordell Hull the
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BURYING THE HATCHET
I have been deluged by telephone
calls asking if I am ready, as I
promised, to eat my column of sev
eral weeks ago saying that Dr. Gal
lup's poll predicting this Roosevelt
landslide was grossly in error. If
it will please anybody, I am willing
to eat that column. It would hardly
give me indigestion. It is only 600
words.
But I doubt the obligation. Dr.
Gallup ate it before I did. He got
so jittery that he covered himself
on every side and finally said that
the election was so close that a
breath could swing it either way.
Some breath!
I am disappointed but not down-»
hearted. After all, it was an Amer
ican election. It expresses what our
people think. I believe it was wrong.
But I am eager to give the result
all that I have to give. So must
everybody. The President didn't
have a more earnest supporter in
1932 and 1936. He didn't have a
more earnest opponent than in 1940.
But now we are on the brink of
war. He is my President and yours.
He could ask me for nothing that
I would not give.
For the result, we couldn't have
gotten a bad man, no matter who
was the final choice. I know both
of these men—know them as well
as you know a college chum or the
man next to whom you work or
the guy who drops in to sit on the
cracker barrel in your store, which
is a figure of speech because we no
longer have cracker barrels. But
the simile is still the same.
I don't call Mr. Roosevelt "Frank
lin" any more because, somehow,
you can't do that to the President
of the United States. But I think
he wishes people would, and I am
very sure that Mr. Willkie doesn't
like to be called anything but Wen
dell. The point is that both of these
men are plain Americans. It has
never seemed to me that either of
them went very far astray—except
as to his advisers. Maybe that was
because I wasn't one of them.
• • •
There is a classic army yarn
about a young lieutenant or "shave
tail" just out of West Point. He
reported to his captain at a western
station in those days when captains
were old, gruff and apt to be very
wise. This one treated him so kind
ly that he became over-enthusiastic
and said: "Oh, Captain. I can see
that we are going to get along in
complete co-operation."
"Yes," said the wrinkled old vet
eran, "and in this man's army you'll
do all the co-operating."
A situation something like that
surrounds the late opponents of Pres
ident Roosevelt. I don't know one
who, because of the danger in the
world, isn't perfectly willing to for
get the late and bitter political fight
and join up with recent political ad
versaries in anything that will ad
vance the interests of the country
and cement its strength. But it takes
at least two for any true co-opera
tion.
The tremendous vote for Mr. Will
kie measures the mass of protest
and skepticism on some of Mr.
Roosevelt's acts and policies. Any
hostility or roughshod riding by this
administration over contrary opin
ions might destroy the President's
great opportunity to usher in the
healthiest "era of good-feeling" and
national unity that has occurred--*
at least in my lifetime.
I thought that kind of era would
come in 1937, but some of Mr.
Roosevelt's closest advisers and
strongest henchmen were vindictive
scalp hunters. They said they had
a mandate and started out to keel
haul and purge even their own pax*-
ty It didn't work ao well and may
be with this much smaller majority,
there won't be so much reprisal.
Old Andv Jackson was like that.
Hi ht he had been cheated out
of o. > election and the assaults on
him had been very hateful and high
ly personal. It was said that he re
tired to the Hermitage "after hav
ing rewarded all his friends and
punished all his enemies." That may
be a great personal satisfaction, but
it is just what the country does not
need at a time like this.
• • • •
Thomas Jefferson is as great a
titulary deity of the Democratic par
ty. He didn't do that. In his first
inaugural, he even offended his own
party by telling the people that with
the election over, they were all
Democrats and Republicans—or the
equivalent labels of that day—Re
publicans and Federalists.
Abraham Lincoln didn't do it ei
ther He appointed to his cabinet
some of the strongest personal op
ponents in his own newly formed
and hodge-podge party.
Any man who has to fight as has
Mr. Roosevelt is bound to support
his friends without too much con
sideration for his opponents Every
body expects that. What is now
needed is good will and mutual con
fidence among all Americans, and
that is exactly what is within Mr.
Roosevelt's grasp today.
But the 22,000,000 people who vot
ed for Mr. Willkie, representing the
views of almest half the population
of a great nation, can't, like the
young army shavetail, "do all the
co-operating." Their opinions must
be respected.
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