The Northern Advocate "NORTHLAND FIRST" Registered for transmission through the Post as a Newspaper. THURSDAY. JUNE_29, 1944. UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

Northern Advocate, 29 June 1944, Page 2

The Northern Advocate "NORTHLAND FIRST" Registered for transmission through the Post as a Newspaper. THURSDAY. JUNE_29, 1944. UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

THF. question whether Franklin D. Roosevelt will “run” for a fourth term at the White House will be reinstated as a subject of importance in the United States now that the Republican Party has chosen Mr. T. E. Dewev as its Presidential candidate.

There has been manifested in no uncertain manner a general desire that politics should not be allowed to divert American attention from the prosecution of the war, which the forces who light under the Star Spangled. Banner, in close co-operation with their allies, have done so much to move in a direction satisfactory to the cause of the United Nations.

This desire has been perhaps more strongly felt by peoples outside the United States, for they have had reason to feel that in President Roosevelt there exists a world figure whose influence and activities, like those of Mr. Churchill, are worth more to the cause of world liberty than many men and much machinery of war.

Every crisis, it has been said, discovers the man to meet it. That is surely true of the greatest crisis in the world’s history, for in President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill there are Twin Brethren greater than those of ancient Rome whose deeds have been suiig by Macaulay.

With these remarkable figures at the head of the British and American people—two men who seem to have affinity with the great leader of the Russian people, or, at any rate, who have succeeded in cementing an Anglo-American-Russian alliance in a way which would have been regarded as impossible not long ago—there is every reason for hope that not only will the war be won by the Allies, but that the peace will be won as well. Would those hopes become less stable if other men led the three nations, or if one of the trio was replaced by the representative of a political party with an ideology further removed from that of Soviet Russia, for example?

That question is revived by the determination of the Republican Party in the United States to contest the next Presidential election, and its choice of the Governor of New York as its candidate. It is not the business of one nation to say what another nation shall do. about its own domestic affairs. To that extent the Republicans, who apparently make up a very large section, if not a majority, of Americans, have a right to try to place one of their party at the head of the United States administration.

Outsiders, however, may be pardoned if they feel that the defeat of President Roosevelt, provided, of course, that he decides to seek re-election, would be an unfortunate development at the present time. They may be quite wrong when they believe that the ideology of the Republican Party might bring the United States into conflict with nations working for a New Order in the post-war world. The fear, nevertheless, will persist. It is true that the Republican Convention at Chicago this week, which unanimously selected Mr. Dewey as the party’s Presidential candidate, stressed the sameness of the foreign policy favoured by Democrats and Republicans. This should reassure- doubters, but many will nevertheless wonder whether the alignment of foreign policies is not after all a matter of political party expediency adopted with an eye to advantage at the polls. That, of course, is a matter for the United States electors to deal with.

There is not a shadow of doubt that the American people would refuse to tolerate any party’s Presidential candidate who would not undertake to go as far as President Roosevelt has gone in promoting an all-out win-the-war effort. That aspect of the question may therefore be put aside at the moment. What all peoples will want to know is whether Mr. Dewey will pledge himself, if elected President, to put into effect, in relation to the nations at large, the principles of the New Deal which constitutes the spirit of Mr. Roosevelt’s altitude towards humanity in general.

The New Deal, in its application to the domestic life of the United States, may be a legitimate cause of opposition by the Republican Party, who may be convinced that such a departure from custom hitherto regarded as orthodox will have disastrous consequences. But it is so intertwined with the principles set outin the Atlantic Charter and in harmony with the thought of Russian and Chinese leaders, that its place in American foreign policy invests the forthcoming United States Presidential election with great importance.