POWERFUL PRESS BACKING FOR MR. DEWEY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22759, 4 October 1948, Page 5

POWERFUL PRESS BACKING FOR MR. DEWEY

(10 a.m.)

NEW YORK, Oct. 3,

The influential independent New York Times which supported President Roosevelt against Mr. Thomas Dewey in 1944, last night announced its support for Mr. Dewey against President Truman.

The Times says its decision is prompted by changes of the Republican attitude on foreign policy, by Mr. Dewey's administrative abilities and broadening of international views by the disintegration of the Democratic Party, by Democratic indecision and by “frequent examples of slipshod administration which are the traditional results of one party’s staying too long in power.” The statement refers to “emergence of enlightened and courageous Republican leadership on foreign policy in the Senate," and says that the leadership of Senator Vanderberg is a guarantee there will be no backsliding into isolationism. This guarantee is backed up by the presence in the Senate of a new generation of Republicans who see the international issues clearly. The Times says of Mr. Dewey: “As President we believe he could be expected to carry out a bipartisan American policy with firmness, efficiency and without confusion of those sudden turns and quick reversals which have characterised the course of the present Administration on such an issue as, say, Palestine.”