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...Dewey who last week carried on his own crusade to capture New York for the Republicans. Audiences recalling his 1948 campaign manner found that the waxiness of his smile seemed to have melted, giving way to genuine friendliness and humor. He was self-assured, easily articulate, and clearly the Republicans' smoothest TV star (Dewey plans at least twelve TV appearances before the election, will also join Eisenhower on a whistle-stop tour of New York later this month). On TV last week, he continued his fight to show New York's minority groups that the Democrats' record...
Before the cameras, Dewey held up a ballot of Senator John Sparkman's home state, Alabama; on it was the Democratic symbol, a rooster, with the legend: "White Supremacy-for the Right." Said Dewey: "White supremacy is the battle cry of the old Ku Klux Klan. It is the battle cry of the hatemongers and the fascists. It is the battle cry of those who would suppress the rights of all minorities . . . The Ku Klux Klan white-supremacy slogan was anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish and anti-Negro . . . Governor Stevenson pretends to be a modern, liberal gentleman who reads well...
Next day, at a dinner commemorating the 41st anniversary of China's revolution against the Manchu dynasty, Dewey made a noteworthy foreign-policy speech, the significance of which went far beyond the battle for New York State. Since the last presidential election, he said, China's 450 million people had been conquered by the Communists. Referring to Stevenson's San Francisco speech on foreign policy (TIME, Sept. 22), Dewey said: "It was shocking to me that the sum total of it was that we should forget about China and start thinking about other areas...
Above all, said Dewey, the U.S. must have a Pacific defense treaty (a project which the State Department considers premature). The individual treaties the U.S. now has with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand are, by themselves, "either too little or too much . . . We are bound to defend these widely separated, isolated areas . . . but each is likely to turn out indefensible as an isolated spot . . . We should view the Free Pacific as a whole." The U.S. and its allies, said Dewey, are already carrying most of the burdens of a Pacific defense treaty, but are getting none...
...Republican state, has gone Democratic in every presidential election since 1932. Since 1942 it has gone Republican in off-year congressional elections. In 1946 the Republican vote for the House of Representatives was 56.5% of the major party total, leading to widespread G.O.P. belief that Illinois was safe for Dewey in 1948. He lost it when the normal Republican downstate majority failed to materialize. Truman's statewide plurality was only 33,612 out of 3,984,046 votes cast for President. An important oddity of the 1948 Illinois election is that Henry Wallace's name...