Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey is a clever lad. His cleverness is of the type that makes this old-line Republican ready to accept the quip that you can like Tom until you begin to know him well...
TIME (Sept. 18) has the right word, but fails to draw the logical inference. Tom Dewey is indeed carrying on his campaign like a "prosecutor," with just the technique that was his own as prosecuting attorney. One might wish a campaign for the Presidency to be conducted on a higher level. Two recent examples of deplorable sharp practice: 1) the attempt to exploit politically the natural desire of parents and wives to have our soldiers brought home as soon as possible ; 2) spreading confusion and arousing controversy by the nomination of General MacArthur for supreme command in the Pacific...
Prosecutor Dewey hasn't yet asked the President of the U.S. whether he has stopped beating his wife. That question is probably held in reserve...
Franklin Roosevelt gave Dumbarton Oaks his accolade: "Well begun." Tom Dewey chimed in with approval, too. But still unanswered is the basic question: How can the new world order stop an aggression by one of its own Big Five? Russia wanted a chance to veto any Security Council decision involving her; the U.S., Britain and China did not. That remained to be talked out at a "higher level," i.e., Churchill-Stalin-Roosevelt (see above...
John O'Donnell, Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, who hates the New Deal and loves to gloat, found something to gloat about last week. Having just read a supplement to the ardently internationalist New Republic taxing Thomas E. Dewey with onetime isolationist leanings and general inconsistency in foreign policy, Columnist O'Donnell had dug out of the files a 1935 statement by the same weekly. After noting current proposals for new U.S. armaments, it said...