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Meantime the Browder attorney supplied a sample of Communist "direct action" by locking himself in a Terre Haute broadcasting booth, reading off the nominee's prepared speech while Chief Yates and some 50 citizens fumed helplessly outside...
...Terre Haute, Ind., birthplace of the late great Radical Eugene V. Debs and scene last year of a general strike, Police Chief James C. Yates announced that Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder would not be allowed to make a scheduled campaign speech in the city. In Chicago, proceeding without delay to cash in on the publicity and sympathy sure to accrue from such tactics, the No. 1 U. S. Red flashed off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates...
...President Roosevelt had the support of the Socialists and Communists, as charged, there would be no Thomas or Browder running for President. Then the People's Front would be as real in America as it is in France. The only force which draws the redicals to Mr. Roosevelt is their detestation of governor Landon and his reactionary supporters. In this they are joined by a growing number of thoughtful voters of the most moderate economic and political views...
...Chicago Tribune readers with this scarehead: MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U. S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT. Featured in the GOPress was the resignation of James Casey as managing editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker because of his disgust with "candidates who speak in the open for Earl Browder and then confer at closed chamber sessions for the election of Roosevelt...
Next morning across the top of every Sunday Hearstpaper in the land streamed this headline: 'COMMUNISTS CAN JOIN ... IN ... SUPPORTING ROOSEVELT' SAYS BROWDER. Beneath it was a long, well-documented exposition of current Red strategy. Simultaneously on the front pages of the nation's press (the Hearstpapers included ) appeared the well-timed Roosevelt retort...