Show GRASSROOTS If Truman Wins Republicans Are Through By Wright A. Patterson his numerous addresses THROUGH throughout the notably those In Boston and General Douglas MacArthur has given the American people something to be rather than only something to be This he has done In unmistakable words which admit no possible misinterpretations not weasel words to Through these statements he established the clarion call for political battle in He calls for a battle for the freedom of the American people as freedoms established and passed down us by our the founders of this General Mac without amy desire for has given words to what the Republican leaders either could not or would not And he has driven the idea to a point where it must be accepted as a plank on which the campaign will be Should by any not be accepted as the gauge of battle with an insistence that the fight be along that the if he be the Democratic will and the Republicans as such will De In providing the one that of freedom of the General MacArthur covers all the Issues that could be It embraces the opposition toward the drift toward so- Warn maintenance of the private enterprise the rights of states and local governments all are wrapped up In one package labeled of the Individual He has sold freedom as opposed to government direction and There they the Issues of the 1952 expressed as the people like It only remains for Republican leaders to accept what is their's for the taking with no strings tied to the With it would go the enthusiasm with which the people accepted bis statements as the general delivered them from many these Republican leaders cannot be foolish enough to Its a campaign ready made lor any party nominee with the exception of General Such a pronouncement would not be a with by either the party or It would constitute a promise of what the party would do in exchange for the thing which General Douglas the popular has asked to be The unsupported statements of the approach of the Russian war wolf have ceased to the nerves or arouse the fears of the American though they have not stopped the appropriations of more billions for preparedness on the part of A preparedness that does not seem to advance as rapidly as so many billions would The people are taking the war cries largely as a They did react for n time to the President's announcement that Russia had created and exploded an atomic but there has been no evidence offered to substantiate that He has not told us the source of his and lacking anything In the way of corroboration the largely have accepted that statement as but a part of the system of as a means of keeping tax increases We hear the and denunciations of the Russian representatives to the United and we hear the equally strenuous name calling and for Russia on the part of American including the But ouch statements do not constitute There are no or no gory And between the cries of war we have the President's statement that we are nearing a state of may be but a political preparing the way for the campaign of Anyway the people have quit taking the President's Itata either way The 1952 elections will determine whether the nation turns to the right or further to the Will the next congress see how much it can |