| Show I Released by Western Newspaper Union PARTY PLATFORM I w MEMBERS OF OP both major political cal parties are talking of the plat platforms forms for the Presidential cam com campaign of 48 What those platforms will be only time nod and the nominating ing conventions convention can tell It is a safe guess they will consist largely of the usual viewing with pride what each party has done or claims to have done and severe and vociferous ous sus condemnation of the other eel fel low t Until Both parties are arc so badly hadly j I split Into factions thorp there seems y little hope for or party planks In lu either cither platform so far as they t j I apply to constructive policies i The result will he nn nil attempted j straddle on 1 many Important I subjects weasel vencl Vell rI words that Hut may be Interpreted as its II any rile rile- I I S ton t may wish and float In real real- realty Neither ty ly are meaningless o platform will VIII be he b so definite there can be he no mistaking ml hat what the part stands for oil em any debatable subject On both sides party leaders do donot donot donot not consider as of first Importance I Ithe the best interests of the nation they do not think of whet what t will attract I the greatest number of or votes Their first consideration is the building of ofa a n platform from which to appeal to the minorities It is not what the f great mass of voters may want but what each vociferous group may want and what each fac fac- faction faction tion of the party may demand That ThatIs Is modern politics as we play the game In the effort to appeal to one ono minority group croup the toes of ot an an- another anothEr another other group are arc stepped upon Ullon In the end no minority or the majority Is really satisfied with what Is offered To have either cither one or both parties to draft a platform for the purpose of appealing to a majority of us Americans and to do so in words that can have but one mean mean- meanIng meaning Ing is probably a hopeless dream drea so 0 long as both parties are split Into factions as ns they are now What Whal we need is a realignment of pout pout- political i cal parties as radicals and liber liber- liberals liberals I als als or as liberals and conserva con I tives That will not be accomplished i under present party names and to change names means so many complications that neither party pany will wm attempt it at least under pres pres- present present ent eat conditions There seems but little hope for anything more than the weasel worded platforms of former years War followed by the new problems of 01 peace pence did not change politics U. 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S APPEASEMENT NT IT WOULD SEEM our diplomacy consists largely of appeasement and the passing out of American dollars to those who ask for them We announced a n policy of maintaining prewar boundaries Despite that Russia annexed the eastern pastern half haU of or Poland took over the Baltic states picked ed up a portion of Finland and a portion of East Prussia sla sia without an objection being raised Russia Russin did not ask she just took and we permitted it She gave to Poland a considerable slice of Germany and a n portion of East Prussia without consulting us or orny orny ny other nation We announced our policy as asco controlling co trolling Japan n ls h In In- Insisted lIsted nn In having a hand In that control and we e consented that we VI might keep Russia happy hn We have done nothing to force Russia out of Iran Iraa despite our promises to that tl country COUll try At Russia's demand d we have bave di- di divided di dl divided vided the rule In Korea Korell regard regard- regardless rega regardless less of our having defeated Ja Ja- Japan Japan Ja- Ja Japan pan and against ug the wishes es of the Korean people We Vt were sup sup- supposed supposed posed to be for freedom of trade and against power polities politics lint hilt we acquiesced In Russia's domi domi- dominance dominance nance Dance In III Romania Romani Bulgaria Hungary Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia lugo la via We accepted England's demands on Thailand though its people looked to us for protection Such Is I I but a part of the appeasement pro pro- program program gram we have followed Along Alon with it we have loaned England a credit of ot better than four billion dollars We are considering a loan to Russia Rus Rus- Russ s sia sla of some six billion We have ave financed the larger share of the capitalization of the International bank Dank and the stabilization fund Such is but a part of the evidence but it would seem that our foreign policy is that of appeasing and paying pay pay- Ing I I IT IS A LONG HOAD to the end of the rainbow for Germany and Japan 1 THOSE CHARACTERS in litera litera- literature literature ture that call for obscenities and vulgarities In their portrayal are not worthy of being preserved as human specimens THE AMERICAN FARM Is as assured a market for the food It pro produces duces daces for tor a considerable number of l' l years years 54 4 OBSTINACY on the part of ot both bot management and organized labor has delayed that postwar we w confidently expected t j |
