AMERICAN WAR PLAN
MR. WILLKIE'S IDEAS
NEW YORK, April 19. i Mr. Wendell Willkie today presented a resolution to a meeting of the Republican National Ctommittce calling for a four-point war programme, including opposition to any negotiated peace, and ftiU prosecution of the war regardless of cost in wealth, energy, ssnd human life; the extension of freedom throughout the world, and ihe assumption of international respwnsibilitics after the war. j Discussing the resolution, Mr. WSllkie declared that the Republican Paufy, if it hoped to reman an effective inistrument of party government, must, not I only repudiate completely and absoi lutely the doctrines of isolationism, but must also possess courage and imagination and recognise that America after the war must hejlp to J lead the peoples of the world to peace i and democracy. Senator Robert Taft moved a motion urging the Republicans to give unqualified support to the President in the prosecution of the war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 93, 21 April 1942, Page 5
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