CHANGE OF FRONT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1940, Page 8

CHANGE OF FRONT

REPUBLICAN PARTY

CHARGE BY MR. ROOSEVELT

NEW YORK, October 28,

At a Democratic Party rally President Roosevelt attacked a "campaign of falsehood" when replying to a Republican charge that American rearmament was slow and inept. He quoted from records revealing that the Republicans played politics with defence in 1938 and 1939 and said that they were playing politics with the national security today.

Their statements and votes sabotaged the Administration's continual efforts to increase the defence. The Republican orators swung through the air with the greatest of ease, but Americans would not vote for the best trapeze performer. When the Naval Expansion Bill was before Congress the Republicans who fought it were Messrs. McNary, Vandenberg, Nye, Hamilton, and Fish.

The Republican orators were now yelling "Me, too," on help for Britain, but last autumn when they had the chance to vote aid to Britain and the other democracies they turned it down. Now at the eleventh hour they had discovered what others knew all along, that overseas success in warding off an invasion by the dictators meant safety for the United States.