Word: deweyitis
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...this, concluded Tom Dewey, is "What happens when a President insists upon handling foreign affairs on the basis of personal, secret diplomacy. The result is today that no one knows what our foreign policy is with respect to Poland, France, Germany, Rumania or other countries of Europe, or for that matter South America or China. We have no hint of what commitments we have made...
...Pittsburgh. Next day, the State Department wheeled up its mimeographs to reply to the Dewey charge. The flaw it found in Dewey's case was that the Rumanian surrender terms were a military armistice, not a treaty; the U.S. had been consulted at all stages...
...Dewey felt well satisfied with his attack on Roosevelt's foreign policy. He moved on to Pittsburgh...
...Then Tom Dewey quickened his attack: "The New Deal has posed for years as the friend-of labor. But today it has turned collective bargaining into political bargaining." He recited the 13-month struggle of railroad workers for a pay increase, after which "Mr. Roosevelt seized the railroads to forestall a national disaster which he himself had prepared. And after he did that he graciously gave the very wage increase to which the railway workers had been entitled for over a year...
...morning of the last day of the [Republican] convention, I called at Mr. Willkie's office in New York. ... I will never forget his words after he heard the actual news of Tom Dewey's nomination. ... It was a moment when a man speaks with candor and without restraint...