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Over the weekend came the first clear encouragement to those who want him to fight, not chat: Willkie got mad. The smear by the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee got his dander up. He smashed hard at the "high professions and low performances" of the New Deal. At Schenectady, beside the railroad tracks, he roared to 2,000 people: "The opposition party's strategy has now become perfectly obvious. It is to have the National Committee deal in the lowest type of politics and smear; to deal with the most corrupt of political machines, while the candidate...
...Smear of the week was a pamphlet issued by the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...more interest was a companion piece, which also emanated from Colored Division headquarters, an eleven-page printed pamphlet bearing the title "Let's Follow Thru," with halftone cuts of Roosevelt and Willkie, the record of the New Deal, and an anti-Willkie blast which drew heavily on the "smear" statements in the mimeographed pages. The pamphlet, a slick job with a neat layout, had obviously been prepared by a master chef. One day last week the whole mess was given an airing in New York newspapers...
...entire handling of this article strongly suggests that the writer is a wholehearted advocate of the "smear Willkie" idea. Since you are supposedly running a news magazine, you may be interested in the viewpoint that news consists of the presentation of facts and not the personal viewpoint of the writer...
...commanded the Army during those final disastrous weeks, or even Marshal Petain himself, who was Daladier's Ambassador to Spain, Reynaud's Vice Premier. There were indications last week that the trial, coinciding with the U. S. Presidential election, might also be used at Nazi insistence to smear Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Ambassador William C. Bullitt through "revelations" of sweeping promises...