REPUBLICAN PLANKS
Mr Dewey Interviewed NEW YORK, June 29. Mr Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York State, who received the Republican nomination for the Presidency, told a Press conference in Chicago that he hopes to confer with all national Republican leaders, including Mr Wendell Willkie. Mr Dewey gave speedy endorsement to many platform planks, including foreign policy. He expressed satisfaction with the foreign trade plank of the party platform. a„d expressed the opinion that the plank gave promise of an adequate protective tariff on competitive products. This was not inconsistent with party promises to work with other nations to promote greater trade. Questioned on foreign policy, Mr Dewey said the United States should not surrender her sovereign right to make war. He added that the sovereign right to make war is primarily a defensive power. America has never waged offensive war. Asked whether the Republican platform ruled out an international police force, Mr Dewey replied: “If you mean an army with American soldiers directed by some disembodied spirit as a world agency, I would say that is ruled out.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22934, 3 July 1944, Page 6
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180REPUBLICAN PLANKS Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22934, 3 July 1944, Page 6
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