Show P GENERAL Z JOHNSON 1 I to LW L W F washington D C i DEFENSE AND POLITICS our problem is in production and not in politics there is a crisis in national defense it is a need for immediate rearmament it is a problem lert of industrial production and it is that alone the record of this administration and the published programs of both the army and navy are absolute i i proof that it is moving to a solution far too slowly to be of any use it lean can be made to move much more rapidly ours is the most efficient industrial production machine in the 1 world it has the best production i managers men amply able to get this vitally necessary increased speed for the government but this government has no such men I 1 the obviously necessary esary first step is to get them right now they dont have to hold office they will come on request they will see what is needed they will get their fellows in industry to operate cooperate co voluntarily 0 0 0 are we doing that we are doing I 1 j just the reverse of that it is well known in washington that the president was planning to put three republicans in his cabinet in the vital post of war navy and commerce names mentioned WAS IT II JUST SOCIAL TALK J P morgan financier at right and british ambassador lothian at english speaking union dinner are frank knox AU alf landon and fiorello laguardia Is that a production measure or a defense measure it is not it is pure politics it is third term politics it is said to be to unify the country on the rearmament program the country need any unification fi on that it is almost unanimous on that the real purpose is plainly to break down our two party system using this as an excuse and to regiment the election with the trend toward dictatorship the greatest threat in the world this is the last thing the head of a democratic party should be trying to do the two party system is the essence of our democracy and the american way of life this is a blow at its heart mr roosevelt pleaded for the adjournment jo journ ment of politics he himself is the hottest political issue if he wanted to adjourn politics he would announce himself in public as he has to some people in private as not available for a third term term a nobody can believe even mr Roosevel ts assurances except in W writing and in public that he is not a third term candidate yet no self respecting republican coula could accept a place on this cabinet without believing that if any did he would be exposing himself to sucker stultification after a third election of roosevelt after the powers of a dictator had been granted the president in the direction of a real solution of the overwhelming vital problem of production to bring an uninstructed political amateur into the war department for example to take the gimp and tucker out of louis johnson would be a cata catastrophe strophe this barefaced use of a national crisis for the purposes of a partisan political attempt to perpetuate a particular president is the blackest mark with which this administration has yet smirched smirch ed its i is own record more impudent than the 1937 conspiracy to revolutionize this to a personalized government by the court packing pac aking and other defeated legislative plans worse than the purges and the political bribery and coercion of 1938 As in those other cases there is strong hope its stench is so great it cant be swallowed A TON OF TRIPE secretary ickes the original triple termite made a speech before the amalgamated garment workers after a few punches at the economic royalists it gloated that they are flocking to the roosevelt standard under the stress of threatening war therefore mr roosevelt and incidentally mr ickes must no now be drafted because democracy universally ver sally demands it both at homel home and abroad well its all a ton of tripe |