Show WEEKLY Y NEWS ANALYSIS G GP P oventon ans r om To Dewey ewey in ispay o of ty Warren second Choice hoce on Ticket By Bill Staff Writer EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion opinions sri ere In thai thue column the at ar r thou thai of ol F Union new and end not necessarily of this newspaper 5 A I F GOVERNOR DEWEY AND FAMILY They want Vant a new white house DEWEY VEY EYED GOP COP Convention Out of the smoke blurred rooms during the recess before the third roll call came the word It was Dewey Dewey first first again with the medi- medi cine men From the very beginning of the GOP convention in the sweltering confines of Philadelphia's convention convention convention conven conven- tion hall hail it was a simple case of Dewey against the field The field was composed of Taft Stassen Warren and MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur plus a scattering of fa favorite fa- fa favorite sons Despite some frenetic jockeying for delegates by Dewey Taft and Stassen over the week end preceding preceding preceding pre pre- ceding the convention the big three of the GOP started out on Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day with their pre alignments unchanged But by the time Gov Dwight Green of Illinois had finished with his us keynote address Monday night it t was apparent that a stop-Dewey stop movement was struggling to get under way As it turned out that movement never did get beyond the struggling stage and Dewey remained remained re re- re- re virtually the only one unaffected unaffected unaffected un un- un- un affected by it In retrospect the convention by that hat time already had assumed an Inexorable course toward t the h e Dewey camp Second guessers maintained that the whole affair oozed along as i if motivated by some fundamental and changeless law aw although that was not fully evident until the convention could be e viewed as a finished product I If there was a fundamental lawit lawt law it t was compounded from a series of ot heterogeneous factors political and personal First of ot all there was the superbly functioning Dewey machine operating operating oper oper- nUng with almost per cent efficiency efficiency ef- ef to corral votes Secondly the Dewey opposition was divided Taft and Stassen poles apart in their political philosophy philosophy philosophy phil phil- within t the Ii e Republican party could not get gel together Stassen Stas- Stas sen en flatly refused a deal and Taft kept waiting walling for tor a break that never came California's Gov Gay Earl Warren Waren Warren War- War ren en refused to have a hand in a stop Dewey drive insisted he was running sunning for the nomination and not just against Dewey added to the confusion by remaining silent ilent noncommittal and even dis- dis Interested Non Domination f nation Actual climax of the convention came when Sen Edward Martin of Pennsylvania renounced his favorite favorite favo- favo rite ite son candidacy and threw his support backed by about half halt the members rs of Pennsylvania's 73 delegates delegates dele dele- gates to Dewey That started the blitzkrieg From then on it was Dewey and downhill all the way As the crucial balloting began in humid steaming convention hall hail it became more evident that a stop- stop Dewey coalition had not jelled On the first roll call it was Dewey Taft Stassen On the second cond ballot Dewey had gone sone up to and Taft to while Stassen dropped to At that point the convention recessed recessed re re- re- re ceased for three hours a move engineered by Taft Stassen and other Dewey anti-Dewey leaders to give them time to decide whether or not to continue the fight When the convention reconvened for or the third roll call the stop stop- Dewey drive had changed to a nominate-Dewey nominate stampede Sen John Bricker of Ohio was the first on the rostrum to withdraw the l ii 1 i ti t GOVERNOR WARREN He accepted name of his states state's candidate Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Taft This was swiftly followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by similar withdrawals by Warren Stassen and MacArthur On the third ballot the 1094 1 delegates delegates dele dele- gates to the convention nominated Gov Thomas E. E Dewey as their unanimous choice to run as the Republican Republican Re Re- publican candid lc for President in 1943 1948 JT Warren arren Selection o of Gov Earl Warren ren o of California as the nominee for vice-president vice came as asa asa asa a complete shock to almost everyone everyone everyone every every- one despite the fact that the choice cholee was a logical and reasonable one Warren was a surprise pick because because because be be- be- be cause prior to the convention he had maintained stoutly that he could not afford to take the vice-presidency vice and would not accept the second spot It was even more a departure from the norm in that the Dewey- Dewey Warren ticket failed to offer agrain a n agrain grain of consolation to the old guard and Isolationist wing of the party Warren has strongly internationalist internationalist inter inter- nationalist political views even more so than Dewey and and has been beena a consistent critic of the GOP iso iso- Initial speculation as to the vice- vice president spot ran to Rep Charles Halleck o of Indiana or Sen Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska both of the conservative Republican tion But in the night-long night wow pow-wow that followed the Dowey nomination nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion it was Warren who was chosen Dewey himself averred that he hadnot had hadnot hadnot not influenced the choice that the party parly leaders had become convinced ed that the California governor was the best b bet t. t Nevertheless Dewey had had to tomake tomake tomake make certain promises in order to get Warren for the job The vice vice- presidency he said no longer would be the stale flat and unprofitable unprofitable unprofitable un un- un- un profitable post It has been He planned to make Warren a full ull partner Significance Whether the GOP convention constructed construct its policy platform to tofit tofit tofit fit the candidates or nominated the candidates to fit the platform is of course an impossible ques ques- tion Nevertheless the Republicans managed to do both Categorically the platform Is a sound looking forward-looking one in the thelI lI light ht of the issues both foreign and domestic to be faced Strongly internationalist and bi bipartisan bipartisan bipartisan bi- bi partisan in tone it rejects the old line of ot isolationism for isolationIsm's isolationism's isolation- isolation Isms Ism's sake and upholds the European European Euro Euro- penn recovery program That foreign policy polley stand harmonizing harmonizing harmonizing har har- as it does with the tho previously previously previously pre pre- stated convictions of Dewey and Warren may stand as a historic historic his his- tone milestone In development of the Republican party 0 r I CRACKDOWN Marshal Tito Russia's iron curtain had twitched apart along its Yugoslavian seam to provide a glimpse of ot the Communist sta stage e set with the rickety scenery of dissension fear and Ins Insecurity Marshal Tito THo of Yugoslavia was wai the central figure but remained so for only a brief instant before hi his Soviet bosses bosse's whisked him off oft the boards 1 Plain fact was that Tito THo hitherto the haired fair-haired boy of oC eastern European European European Euro Euro- communism had been all but purged from the Communist party because he was trying to make a n play for western capitalism Actually he he together with his i henchmen in the Yugoslav government government govern govern- I ment meat was ousted from the all tin i Communist In Information Information information in- in formation bureau which was established last year to provide greater unity for the Soviet satellite states of eastern Europe Tito THo and his regime were charged with virtually everything the Soviet I politburo considers a crime rang crime rang ranging ing from Trotskyism and anti- anti to Ineptness and false demagogic tactics Behind this official facade which v the Communists had thrown up however were the real reasons for tor Titos Tito's expulsion from grace As the only wartime hero of the Communists the Yugoslav marshal had begun to take himself too seriously seri seri- seriously hence was beginning to feel the need to express his own opinions and policies on matters political and economic Stalin n wanted no other boss in his sphere Tito THo was building up a personal police army which was molesting other Communists including Russians Russians Rus Rus- skins In Belgrade Also he had followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed an independent foreign policy policy policy pol pol- icy without Moscow's approval Finally he committed the cardinal sin of currying favor with western capitalist diplomats with an eye to obtaining reconstruction credits for Yugoslavia SERVICE Drafting That draft which men In the 19 through 25 age group are beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning to feel is Es the result of ot the U. U S. S armed forces drawing in their breath and preparing to expand all over the place Between next fall and next summer summer sum sum- mer the services plan on calling about age draft young men every month Drafting is scheduled to start about September 22 With a strength of ot authorized authorized au au- au- au by congress in the selective service bill the army has estimated that it will need between and to approach its authorized strength That number is in addition to the or volunteers it so fervently hopes it will get In discussing plans for this second peacetime draft in U. U S. S history Army Secretary Kenneth Royall explained explained ex ex- that the army array now has men but it wont won't jump to the figure immediately because funds for the fiscal year which began began began be be- gan July 1 are not sufficient Thus by July 1 1949 the size of ot the army will be an estimated The peacetime draft i Is a relatively rein rela slow-functioning slow process Certainly it cant can't compare with the wartime levying of ot manpower Peak of ot the induction rate during the war was reached in February 1943 19 when men received their greetings When the army att attains ins its full strength it will consist of 12 regular army divisions Backstopping Backstopping Backstopping Backstop- Backstop ping these will be six national guard divisions together with other supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting elements such as antiaircraft antiaircraft anti air craft artillery and arid service troops BLOCKADE Berlin Russia's freight blockade of Berlin Berlin Berun Ber Ber- lin un while a stark enough action In its own right nevertheless was a secondary manifestation of the same old cold war crisis arising out of ot the Soviet bid for power in Europe While American and British planes by the hundreds were flying in food to besieged Berliners the western powers were pondering a question they had had to answer in 1938 when Hitler was in power power- whether or riot not ot to appease Long range plans of the Kremlin of which the Berlin blockade is just one phase call for tor the forcing of the western Allies out of ot Berlin This according to Soviet thinking could be done by either of two means Either by threats and terrorization terrorization ter- ter Involving the risk of war or by a power four negotiation negotiation which could be bo hoped to result In Ina a western appeasement policy such as gr grew w out of the starred ill-starred Munich conference of 1938 Britain and the US U.S. are on a B dangerous spot If U they pulled out of Berlin o under pressure of force applied by Russia the power and in influence in- in influence fluence of western democracy would be perilously weakened in Europe |