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Finally Candidate Roosevelt came to a main piece of business in his speech-an attempt to give a brisk brushoff to Earl Browder and his enthusiastic Communist support for Term IV, without alienating any needed votes: "I have never sought and I do not welcome the support of any person or group committed to Communism, or Fascism, or any other foreign ideology which would undermine the American system of government...
Four times Tom Dewey called Franklin Roosevelt's disavowal of Communist support a "soft" disclaimer. He attacked Earl Browder - "now such a patriot" -as a man "convicted as a draft dodger in the last war, convicted again as a perjurer and pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt in time to organize the campaign for his fourth term." Then Tom Dewey explained why, in his view, the Communists are supporting Mr. Roosevelt. He dug up a quotation from a memorandum written by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939: "Over a period of years the Government will gradually come...
...Springfield, Mo. (At Springfield, a small boy threw the first rotten apple of the campaign,, missing Dewey by ten feet, but conking a photographer.) At each stop Dewey continued in his Oklahoma City style, swinging freely-at bureaucracy, at the "Roosevelt" depression, at Hillman, Madam Perkins and Earl Browder...
Recruit All the Reds. At a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, Earl Browder laid down the Communist line. Speaking from the same platform where, on Nov. 3, 1940, he denounced Franklin Roosevelt for trying to involve...
...imperialist war," he now said: "The election of Thomas E. Dewey would be an American invitation to Europe to plunge immediately or soon into the most devastating civil war." Other consequences Comrade Browder foresaw, if Dewey were elected: the Soviet would be warned that the U.S. was determined to stop cooperating with it as soon as possible ; no postwar world security organization would be possible ; John L. Lewis would seize control of the U.S. labor movement; the G.O.P. would start a "witch-hunt" through the U.S. for hidden Communists; a series of strike waves would ensue; and finally, "all hope...