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The Congressional Elections
The forthcoming congressional elections will be a
most important event in American history. There are
three possible outcomes. Mr. Flynn’s viewpoint might
suceed. Mr. Flynn want a unified congress through the
triumph of the Democratic party, which means an ap
proach to a single partv system.
The Republican die-hard viewpoint might succeed.
In ths case we would have a congress divided on the
major issues of the war, and a repetition of the situa
tion that confronted Woodrow Wilson.
The viewpoint of Mr. Roosevelt—and Wendell Will
kie—might succeed. In this case, we would be protect
ing the two-party system by choosing from amongst
Sepublicans and Democrats those loyal to the national
program, whose opposition would be positive, con
structive, and directed toward winning the war, in
stead of negative, disruptve, and leading toward stale
mate and paralysis.
The popular will is to win this war and make a great,
constructive peace. In order to succeed we must have
leadership and cooperation all along the line. Coop
eration does not mean servility, nor a congress that is
merely a rubber stamp. It means a congress that can
actively eontrbute to winning the war bv using its
brains, not merely one that doesn’t hamper the admin
istration. Mr. Flynn wants the supremacy of the party
apparatus, which gives superiority to the party leaders.
It is to be deplored in normal times, but is destructive
in war times, for it means that the nation is exploited
for the party machinery, and it brings about a false
identification—of loyalty with party orthodoxy. In
such a case the opposition, without responsibility for
the conduct of the war, can function only by oppo
sition for the sake of opposition. The President realizes
this. He asks that men be elected not according to
party, but according to their stand on the main issue
before the country.
This is Mr. Willkie’s viewpoint, too, and it is states
manlike. For Mr. Willkie sees th; t the Republican
party will not recover by its power to divide and de
stroy, but by its proven record of superior learership
in a life and death crisis. Every admiinstration makes
mistakes—such is life. And it is human for adminis
trations to defend their own mistakes, instead of pub
licizing them. A loyal oppostion becomes, therefore,
the conscience of the nation, and its watch dog.
But there is another opposition—the die-hard op
position, which, in the war, is a copperhead opposition
And it is laying plans which, should they succeed, can
wreck the nation. This opposition is not even Repub
lican. It plans to use the Republican machinery. There
are many party Democrats in it, and there are Fascist
circles behind it. It has a press. It has pamphlets and
minor papers that reach the rabble. It has a plan: To
secure the reelection of the kill-Roosevelt crowd and
of all the isolationists. It intends to create a solid and
active minority whose purpose will be to paralyze all
action and to use every internal confusion* and ex
ternal defeat to render the country incapable of an
active pursuit of the war.
It has an external policy; to divide the United Stat
es from her allies, and prevent a United Nations con
duct of the war, by demanding an exclusively Ameri
can control of the war, which seems to be very pat
riotic, but would be disastrous. Their slogan is: Defeat
so blinded by their rancor and so stubborn in their
• hates that they cannot recognize our mutual depend
ency on the British, the Dutch, and eventually pro- (
bably the Russians in the Far East. They would even
welcome partial defeats if those defeats would bring
them into power.
It is difficult to think there are such Americans. But,
the grim reality is that there are. Their prototypes |
helped destroy France, which was also a deeply pat
riotic nation unwilling to believe that there were such 1
goings-on amongst their “out” politicians.
The American people in these elections must think.1
And the election campaign must be a campaign for!
, the real issues of this war. Both parties must make a:
campaign on the single issue of how to win the war,
1 and anyone unwilling to come clean on this issue
should be voted into oblivion.
—By Dorothy Thompson (Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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