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9,
1944.
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GOOD
EV
EN
IN
G
E
V
E
YB
OD
Y:
C
a
ndid
a
te Dewey held his first press
conference tod
a
y - an
d
it broke all records, the largest
in
meaory -
more journ
a
lists than at President Roosevelt's
D-Day
conference.
Dewey
promptly
made
one thing clear:
he intends to coll
a
borate in the
widest possible way,
with
the leadership
of
his party.
Newsmen in Chicago asked him about his campaig1
plans. To which he responded:
•1
have no campaign plans
now.•
Then he explained that be wouldn't ~ake up bis
mind until he h
a
d consulted with the National Committee
and the heads of the various state committees, the
Chairmen and vice
-
chairmen. •And, of course,• be added,
•Governor Bric
k
er
will
be consulted on every t bing.•
Bow
a
bout
,
endell Willkie?
•Has Willkie
been invited to
g
ive his
views
in the campaign?" asked a
-
-
DEIEY-2
newsman.
•r
haven't invit
e
d anybody yet,•
Dewey
replied.
Then be
ent on:- "I certainly hope to consult
with
all
the leaders in th
Republican part
·
y ad
t
th
.
n
ge
eir views
and exp
e
rience.•
•noes that include
Wilkie?•
the questioning
went
on.
•1~ certainly does,• responded Dewey.
So
what about the foreign policy plank of the
Republican pltaform, which Wilkie attacked as being
•vague and ambiguous?•
Gwvernor Dewey stated today that the foreign
policy plank
was,
in his words, • a document prepared
by
many
people, with inevitable compromises,•
And then
he went on to give his personal view.
•My
own
interpre-
tation
of
th
e
plank said be •is in the sentence that the
United States will participate and work with all other
nations in the interest
of
peace•.
He was asked whether the foreign policy plank rule
out an international police force.
E
•what
do
you mean by an international police forcel
be respon ed.
•rf
you
11ean
Aaerican boys in
an
Ar■J
under the direction of some diaeabodied spirit called•~
international police force,
7es. •
In
that interpreta-
tion Dewey is against it.
Jhat
about the unemployment question after the war
is over? Will Federal help be needed? That question
was put to Dewey, and he answered:
- •Federal help
will be fundamental -- it will be necessary.• And, he
went
on to express the hope that private enterprise •oul
provide full employment as a whole.
The exchange of question and answer got around tot
the Federal security laws.
Did he advocate a modificati
of
the securities and exchange commission?
.
.
Here
is
Dewey's answer:
•By
and large,• said he,
'the
s
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one of the best things the
Ad ■ inistra-
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c.
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did.•
Ani
finally--the candidate was asked whether, in
vie~ of
his
nomination,
he would give up
his
post as
Governor of New York·
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To which he repli
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Not
It is entirely accordin1
to custom for a Governor to retain his state job
while
'
campai
g
nin
for the Presidency.
That press conference was a formidable ordeal
for the new can
d
idate,
the largest
in point of
size
ever
1
held.
There
were ~ven
more newspapermen than those who
question President Roosevelt at the White Bouse on D-
Day.
Dewey was in
great
form and carried it off in the
finest of good spirits.
Naturally, there were
■ an7
Rew
Deal reporters vresent, top-ranking Washington corres-
pondents.
They fired many a penetrating question.
Dewey never ducked, and did not parr7. And the reporter
were auch impressed.
One incident shows how much those five hundred
the country's top ranking reporters were impressed.
One
particularly
z
ealous New Deal partisan started to ask
the Rew York Governor a question about bis attitude
toward President Roosevelt, A question couched in acid
words.
Dewey didn't have a chance to
answer
because
the rest of the newspapermen booed the questioner down,
told him this was no time for that kind of heckling.
A, Democratic reaction to the events at Chicago
was
1
heard this evening from Texas Tom Connolly, of the
Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate.
Be
attaeted
the foreign policy plank of the Republican Party adopted
in Chicago.
Be added foreign policy as one of the issue
which ought not to be tou~hed in the election
.
campaign.
F
Sa.
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·d be,
1·s
greater than the fortune of
oreign policy,
parties.
The news from France tonight speaks of high ground.
Last evenin
g
we heard that British
a
rmored forces were
on flat terrain, level spaces of earth suitable for
aotorized movements -- and great tank battles
were
being
!
fought.
Now
Montgomery's armor has pushed across the
level plain, and has come to a ridge, a series of
elevations about three hundred and fifty feet high.
The
latest is that they
stor ■ ed
their way up the slopes
and
have
established themselves on the crest.
I
This giv~s them artillery command of the country
beyond, the importance of which
is
indicated by the
situation of the ridge,
which is six miles
southwest of
Caen,
and looks
down
on the
valley
of the Orne River.
Also,
the ridge overlooks the
highways
that are the life~
line of the German forces
in Caen.
From the ridge,
Allied artillery no• commands these roads and can cut
them
with
shell-fire.
ld
Seem to mean that the capture
All of
which wou
of Caen may not be long delayed.
However, we are told th
.
th
ever are likely yo
that
taak
battles more violent
an
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develop.
The
Germans are
brin
g
in
g
up heavy reinforcements,
thou
gh
these are being dispresed
and decimated
by
Allied
,
air
attack
--the incessant bombing and
strafing
of the
planes of the tactical air force.
Around Evrecy, the British have knocked out no
fewer than sixty German tanks in the last
f ■•
three days
The
Nazis have be~n counter-attacking furiously, but
Montgomery's men have pushed them back to a point five
ailes to the Southwest of
Caei.
From the
West
they have
captured a suburb within five
miles
of Caen itself.
Another bi& day in the
European
air war --11th
forty-five
hundred Allied war planes hurling five
thousand tons of bombs on a variety of targeta.
These
thousands of Allied planes report that they sighted no
aore than two hundred German fighters over all the great
spaces involved in the attacks. And Allied headquarter•
announces that since D-Day, German fighter
bases
have
been pushed back a hundred miles -- their
forward
bases
ao heavily blasted by daily attacks as to be unuseable.
From
.
taly Allied Commanders report that the
Ger■ an
air force is now flying on itamservea of oil.
Here's a late bulletin telling of the
nu ■ber
of
German prisoners in the
campaign
for Cberbourg.
They
ba•e
been
counted up
and
number
thirty-aeven-thousa
_
nd,
three-hundred-and-thirty-three, that
■ any
captives of
1
ar take~ in the
aaall
Cherbourg sector.
In Russia advancin
g
Soviet troops have completed
the encirclement of the city of Bobruiak, where five
German diviai ns have been tr
a
pped.
And at the
aaae
time, Soviet armored units raced ahead to within thirt
five miles of Yinsk--the gateway to
laraaw.
Minsk, saya
Moscow, will fall befo~e the week is out.
Later this evening, the Reds announced another
victory, Almost as important as the taking of Bobruist.
The northern armies have taken Petrozatodat, capital
ot
the [arelian
lui■t
·
Soviet Republic, a city of
aeventy thousand
.
eople.
t~e Pacific tells of
Aa
ric
a
n advan e
all alon,
t
..
e line, on the island of Saipan,
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in the fac
or
severe
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One faoua of battle is at a
pocket• ich t
h
e Japs hold--a valley heavily fortified
and boneycoabed with those
caTta
which are ao familiar
in the Saipan story -- caverns the Japs have turned into
fortresses.
A news dispatch today eapresses ••• the belief that
the fight for the pocket in the valley aay develop into
the all-out battle which is expected -- the
fiaal
show
down
with the large Japaneae fo.l"ce on Saipan.
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losses in the Pacific
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A
news bulletin is just in
from Washington and gives the following figures.
Since
Pearl Barbor, the Japs have lost twelve thousand and
ei
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hty-six planes.
Our losses tabulate~ two thousand
seven hundred and twenty-six. The ratio is about four
and a half to one~-The measure of superiority
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America
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CONVENTION
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Just about
a
ll the Republicans in Chicago today
elated over the Dewey-Bricker combination.
All that
I've encountered say that Bricker should
make an idaal
running mate for his colleague the le• York Governor.
A number
of Governor Dewey's neighbors
fro ■
Quaker
Bull and Pawling New York are in Chicago.
Ir Dewey
lives on a 0-H fara.
And near them
lis■a
is where •1
friend, Lynn Sumner lives. Ir. Suaner, how did this
conYention look through your Quaker Bill eyes? lhat
aoae
of your iapreasions of your neighbor, and of thia
convention.
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hat
were
my
outstanding impressions of the
Convention?
Well, Tuesday night that truly ireat speech
of President Hoover when he called on th
e
younger people
of
America
to
take up the responsibilities of government
I
have beard
.
Ur. Hoover many times but to
■ e
that was
-tt:.
bis greatest sp,ech,
Then yesterday noon there was
another great speech
of
an entirely different kind-
'
when GovernQr Bricker renounced his own personal
ambition and pledged his support
to
Governor
.
Dewey for t
i
the Presidency.
All week there had been evident among
1
the delegates and the visotors a tremendous sentiment
for
Governor Bricker.
And when he assured party unity
in that thrilling, emotional, dramatic speech he won
the hearts of every man, and
wo■ an
in that great conven-
tion hall, as
I
am
listening over the
sure he must have inspired millions
radio7: "It
aas,
I
think on
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e of the
I
greatest extemperaneous speeches
I
have ever heard •
doubt if ever in history we have bad as candidates for b
both Pre
s
ident an
d
Vice President two men bo t
b
superbly
1
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.gbest office in the gift of the
qualified for the
people.
(L. T - I gather you are not a
De■ocrat
!)
·
of course I was especially interested in eeeing
our friends and neighbors,
Tom and
Frances
Dewey when
they arrived laet night at Convention Ball.
When they
came into the
stadiua
and the
crowde were
cheering and
the lights
were
blazing and the bands
were playing and
Toa and Frances stood there,
waving
to those thousnads
all
around them,
I
couldn't h&lp thinking what a wonder-
ful thing it is that two young people, both from saall
towns
of
Michigan and
Texas,
can
e ■ erge
on their
■ erits
'
and their character to
become
possibly the President and
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the First Lady of the land:I\Yes, it's a wonderful thing
that this could happen to your next door neighbors.
u-Over in a box Tom's mother was sitting with some of
our friends and the tears
were
running down
_
her cheeks
for pride
and
joy.
Any mother can understand that.
.
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Last night, at the
And, just one t 1ng more.
Of the Hotel Stevens,
when
Tom
reception in the ballroom
and Frances Dewey stood there hour after hour greeting
and shaking hands
lik ■ xix
with eager people who
for■ed
a line tha.
t
seemed like it would nev
.
er end.
Governor
Dewey of course is fresh and vigorous with unbounded
energy, but Mrs
.
D~wey, lovely and
alead•r
and
sweet
and delicate, never flatered, she naver looked up at
that milling throng, she just welcoaed each ~ne with
a
sparkling smile and
war■
word• of thanks. - And ahe
kept that up until three o'clock thia morning!
'' These are real folks, Lowell, the
Deweya
and . .µte
Brickers.
It
ao■ehow
,ivea
you
a
rene•al
of faith in
our country and our way of life to see thing
happen
as we
have
the■
here this
week
in Chicago.~
Thanks Lynn, for
telling a
bit abo~t your fellow
Quaker Biller.
GRAND CANYON -20-
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With all the breathless tales that we get of
adventure in war overseaa, today brings a thriller froa
such a familiar
A■ erican
place aa -- the Grand Canyon.
The news tells how two mountaineers have just cliabed
an almost perpendicular face of the Canyon wall, to
reach three
aray
airmen who have been stranded for ten
days.
The story which reads like a fantasy, tells how
the three airmen baile~ out of a plane, and their para-
chutes drifted down into that iamense cbasa called - The
Grand Canyon.
They landed on a kind of ledge, which ia
really a plateau --
·
a flat
space
jutting 011,t
feo ■
the
Borth wall of the Cany1>n.
.
Thanks
to the chance of
wind
and drift, all three
came
down close together -- on that
ledge-like plateau.
There they
were
in a lost world, on
of those place utterly isolated by cliffs so steeep that
they can hardly be climbed.
Qnly the most skillful of mountaineers could pos-
sibly reach the three flyers.
And today the cliff-
iaws
who has been
scaling exploit was accomplsihed by Ed
'
climbin
g
mountains for twenty years as a
■ ember
of the
National Park Service.
And-Professor A. A. Mccrae of
Wilmington, Delaware, an acadeaic dignitary whose sport
for years has been mountianeering.
They reached the
plateau jutting out
fzi■s fro ■
the cliff and other
climbers are following --to complete the taak
of
rescue.
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Just a fe
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minutes ago
I
was
informed
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ha
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lJ
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p
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a conference with five
leading national committeemen.
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they left
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low
York
GovePaar•
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