Show dispelling THE FOG ty by charles Al michelson ichelson ta the effort of the hoover landon commit the republican v ng g to par to the policy of isolation marks deliberate attempt to end the principle principle rin ciple of no partisan politics in dennse defense program the ie it is particularly braen in the light of the circumstance that tile the is minority bority bartys candidates in the va it I t national election have both ln in ai bawd their adherence to a con ay view wendell willkie h has is 0 kiy declared his accord with the policy fey of president roosevelt and senator mcnary has voted for near a gh of the measures that call for all li aid to the democracies that are arc fighting the nazis the republican vise vice presidential candidate of 1396 heads the nary y department and hoovers secre al tary of f state is now secretary of war with neither of them forswear ing his republicanism most of the important figures in the defense setup set up are listed as republicans I 1 and so are also characterized as t atar a by the isolationist group in the minority party who refuse to admit that these are I 1 riveted by the sentiment that they are patriotic americans first and party members only second and so were willing to answer the call of the country the day after the hoover lan don group issued its round robin a caucus of republican house mem bers followed suit according to the nv new york herald herad tribunes report of that session the caucus was virtually forced on joseph W martin jr republican floor leader and chairman of the republican national committee Cha chairman irmin martin regardful of the division in his party has militantly worked both sides of the street on the isolationist issue we have only sympathy with chairman martin who feels that u city anity is the only hope of his following and has been bent on preventing an all out break between the Hoove rites and the Willkie ites there is a pathetic note in the statement attributed to the baltimore suns account of the caucus to an ohio member to wit we can be for peace and perhaps be licked in the next campaign camps agn we can be for peace and war and probably get licked we can be for war and certainly get licked according to the to of the hoover the american land landon on junta people should sh insistently demand that congress should put a stop to step by step projection of the united states into declared undeclared un war the step by step the movements were w ere occupation of bases western outside the hemisphere iceland end and promises of unauthorized to russia another aid sententious ut teran cef was vas this alli tl li few people honestly believe i that the axis is now or will in the future be in a position to threaten the independence of any part of this hemisphere if our defenses are properly prepared the occupation of iceland on in invitation vi tation of that land before hitler could grab off that tha t steppingstone to this hemisphere hemis P here is part of i the proper preparation of our do de 1 bense we have consistently done what we could to check the on march of tile the axis aid to russia which is now blocking the nazi effort at world conquest is the bostl most immediate method of staying the ons onslaught I 1 a aught and making aggression from the pacific side more improbable we wc are arc sending all sorts of war maternal material mat erkal to england with the idea idel that great britain shall do all th damage possible to the axis A bomb dropped from a russian air plane on berlin produces the same I 1 effect as an identical bomb delav I 1 I 1 ered by the RAF A nazi trans port sunk in the baltic diminishes the he strength of hitler as much as one sunk in the north sea As for the few people who hon believe that the axis conati atutes a threat to the united states why are we building a two ocean navy creating cre atin a wartime war time army and spending billions of dollars in a defense establishment if only a few of us accept the idea that w are menaced under our system the he opinions and desires of the pub ic are expressed through congress Con gres what validity is there to the assumption that all are out of step except pt tile the Hoove rites |