Truman and Dewey Court Voters Of Foreign Birth

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1948, Page 5

Truman and Dewey Court Voters Of Foreign Birth

NEW YORK, October 27

The Presidential candidates arc making a determined bid for tne support of foreign-born voters in the closing stages of the campaign. Concentrated in the Dewey States of New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, the foreign-born population wields considerable influence in the overall electoral set-up. The vote in any of these three States is now worth more to either Mr Dewey or Mr Truman than most other parts of the country, because of large block votes they carry in the electoral college. Both Mr Dewey and Mr Truman came out this week with diiect appeals to the large Jewish population bv urging a speed-up in the aid to Israel and the adoption ot the original United States Palestine partition plan, which is more favourable to the Jews than the Bernadotte Pl A?i° Wallace, meanwhile, is claiming credit for Democratic and Republican promises of support for Greece, China and Israel which, he says, would never have been made if he was not running in the campaign. The Progressive and parties are saying that Mi liuman and Mr Dewey are too much unde, the influence of vest . e^ 1 „ 1 Jl t d er f o Sreigncare for the “under-privileged foieign born” as Mr Roosevelt did. Mr Truman is endeavouring to win them back to the Democratic fold with assurances that he has not abandoned them. .. Mr Dewey has been couit» f Italian vote by urging the retuin m the North African c° lo a n ' c n s With the election campaigns entering their last feverish week 1 Republicans and Democrats are pr <- on _ up sportsmen and Hollywood person alities to* attract listeners to their radio programmes. -r qP iRepublicans featured Joe Homs. Dempsev, the golfer Willie Tune , and Sid Luckman, a top-flight professional footballer. Later, when Mr Thomas E. Eewev broadcast, the Democrats turned oi a programme including Gregory Lecn, Melvin Douglas. Ronald Regan, Gene Kelly and William Green, president of the American Federation ot LaWhile Mr Dewey and Hollywood personalities were on the an, ftr 'Henry Wallace broadcast from a Progressive Party rally at Madison Square Garden.