U.S.A. PRESIDENCY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 5

U.S.A. PRESIDENCY

NAZI SUPPORT FOR WILLKIE AS ELEMENT OF WEAKNESS. ' ALLEGED BY MR WALLACE. PHILADELPHIA, October 26. The Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, Mr Henry A. Wallace, in a broadcast said that Nazi support for Mr Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee for the Presidency, was part of Hitler’s plan to weaken and eventually conquer the United States. He declared that a Republican victory was a necessity for the dictators’ plans to overthrow America's peace and liberties. He said he did not question Mr Willkie's patriotism, but he was mentally confused and appeared to the Nazis to be the clement of weakness needed for their designs. Mr Wallace added that totalitarian agents had been ordered to spend money in an effort to remove President Roosevelt from their path. The C. 1.0. leader, Mi- J. L. Lewis, in a broadcast endorsed Mr Willkie's candidature. He asserted that President Roosevelt's motivation and objective was war. President Roosevelt's reelection, he said, would be a national evil of the first magnitude if it occurred. He would regard it as equivalent to a vote of no confidence by the C. 1.0. in his own leadership and would retire from the presidency of the organ i sa t i o n.