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Last week he made his first full-scale assault on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. His audience was the New York Herald Tribune's, annual forum, which the President had declined to address. Tom Dewey reiterated his approval of Dumbarton Oaks "because in this matter we have followed the American way of doing things-[leaving] it to the State Department where it belongs." But, said Dewey, "to the extent that we leave our international relations to the personal, secret diplomacy of the President, our efforts to achieve a lasting peace will fail. In many directions today our foreign...
...Even in the earliest days of the Republic," he said, "the United States wielded a moral force in excess of its military power." Now Candidate Dewey called a roll of European problems where the U.S. does not seem to be wielding a great moral force...
...fighting for. . . . Mr. Roosevelt undertook to handle this matter personally and secretly with Mr. Stalin. Mr. Roosevelt has not yet even secured Russian recognition of those whom we consider to be the true Government of Poland." (This invited another spanking from the Soviet official press, which had already called Dewey a provocateur for his Pulaski Day address-TIME...
Italy, said Dewey, is suffering mass unemployment, hunger and despair. "The Italian people deserve something better than the improvised, inefficient administration which personal New Deal government is giving them today...
Germany. When Germany was invaded, there was still no completed plans for its occupation, said Dewey, although General Eisenhower had warned last January that the U.S. would have to deal with that problem in 1944. And when President Roosevelt met with Churchill at Quebec to discuss such plans, he took along not Cordell Hull but the Secretary of the Treasury, "whose qualifications on military and international affairs are still a closely guarded military secret. . . . Germany's Propaganda Minister Goebbels has seized upon the whole episode to terrify the Germans into fanatical resistance. On the basis of our Treasury...