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Show On Facing The Issues Of The Day Reprinted From The Arizona Republic Phoenix. Ariz. Feb. 19, 1950 The President of the United States made a speech to rhe nation Thursday night. He spoke via radio to millions of Americans who may be living on borrowed time, now that an avowed enemy is building weapons of atomic destruction destruc-tion aimed at America. The President spoke to a people who have been told that the even more fearful hydrogen bomb may wipe out civilization and all life on this planet in one flaming breath. At the moment he spoke, the red tide of Communism that has engulfed almost all of the continent con-tinent of Asia was pressing hard against the last friendly outposts in the Pacific. In captive Berlin the noose again was being tightened by a new blockade. On the same night the President spoke, the fires were going out in basic industries all over America. Schools were being closed, and homes and hospitals were reaching into their last reserves of coal. Men by the thousands were being laid off their jobs, trains were being cancelled and the nation was faced with suspension of vital telephone service. Food products bought with the taxes of the people were being piled up to rot while millions throughout the world went hungry to bed.- As the President spoke, citizens all over the nation were reflecting on the treachery of those in high positions of trust who had been found guilty of betraying be-traying their country. And all over the world desperate men were shoring up the hasty defenses of freedom. Against this background of national peril and acute drama the President of the United States made a speech. He said the only danger to the American nation is the Republican party. In the name of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln we reverently ask: How much lower can the leadership in Washington descend? |
