Word: deweyitis
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...other proponent had put the case for U.S. troops to Europe more expertly. The Wherry resolution, Dewey said, was the final "little toehold of isolationism . . . the last gasp of ... a school of thought which basically would like to withdraw from all the world to our own shores...
...Europe and that they and Europe are his for the asking." The U.S. had given that kind of notice before, with fatal results: to the Kaiser and to Hitler, both of whom had been sure that "America would not intervene." The U.S. had announced "in substance," said Dewey, that it would not defend Korea, "and again the aggressor moved in." The Wherry resolution would be taken "as a signal that the U.S. has hauled down its flag...
...Fortress Illusion. "It is the idea," said Dewey, with unspoken but unmistakable reference to Herbert Hoover, "that fortress America could survive alone." Said Dewey flatly: "It could not . . . fortress America is an illusion." The fall of Europe would mean Russian domination over Africa and Asia. Essential raw materials of munitions-chromite, manganese, bauxite, uranium-come from the mines of Africa and Asia. Without them, "our industry would grind to a halt." U.S. troops to Europe are a matter of "necessity for our self-preservation...
Added Tom Dewey: "The mood of the world has changed in the last two months. You can almost feel it in the air. We hit bottom last fall, but we have been on the rise ever since . . . This is no time for any action by us to reverse the spiral of confidence and plunge the world again into an atmosphere of despair...
...First Consideration." After the rickety railroad killed 110 passengers and injured about 450 in two big crashes last year, New_York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a three-man investigating commission.* Six weeks ago, the commission reported that "the first consideration ... is the complete and permanent separation of the Long Island from control of the Pennsylvania." Doubting that any private company could make a go of the Long Island the investigators urged that the road be taken over by a nonprofit state authority, relieved of its real-estate taxes and empowered to set its own fares. Although...