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...program as hopeful and liberal was sweepingly effective until the actual results of its control of the nation began to be so plainly visible. Now, however, the record shows that, whatever may be said of its ventures in social fields, in the economic field, it has been defeatist in its philosophy and reactionary in its policies...
...four counts just examined, the conception which the New Deal leadership has of a limited and lessening future for the enterprises of the American people is defeatist and in defiance of the facts. If this conception of the American future is permitted to go on dominating our national policy, a sense of frustration and futility will increasingly dull the venturesomeness of millions of Americans who are normally courageous and eager to take the risks of pioneering economic developments...
That Mr. Frank is a clever man, no one can deny. His program twists and turns the New Deal mercilessly, and ends up by tagging it with the twin damnations--reaction and defeatism. It is reactionary, says Mr. Frank, because it restricts free enterprise, and it is defeatist because it assumes that America has reached a limit of economic expansion. The results of the reign of this two-headed monster Mr. Frank finds in many present-day aches and pains--the debt, the unemployed, taxes, and labor trouble. He then makes the promise that if the god of free enterprise...
...only concrete platform to which the A. I. L. has committed itself is the four-point statement of aims drawn up in October. At that time the League went on record as being opposed to the defeatist attitude that "America will get in this war sooner or later anyway." In addition it voted against all profiteering, extension of credits to belligerents, and dangerous propaganda and to concentrate the League's efforts on safeguarding civil liberties and strengthening democracy in America...
Besides, there is no use taking a defeatist attitude like that of the Republicans when we can make great progress with South American countries towards free trade. Now is our chance to tear down tariff walls and make the Western Hemisphere strong, peaceful, and economically prosperous...