The Chicago star., November 02, 1946, Page 2, Image 2

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THE CHICAGO STAR, NOVEMBER 2, m*
The issue facing American voters this election
day has become completely clear during the last
few weeks of the campaign.
On November 5, the American people will be
called upon to defend the nation from Wall
Street’s most dangerous offensive.
The emergence of the notorious American Ac
the Republican leadership has given dramatic
confirmation of the STAR’S analysis of last
month, when we declared that the main threat
facing the American people this November is
the attempt of fascist-minded groups to seize
control of the government through the Republi
can party.
• • •
AMERICAN ACTION, successor to the notor
ious liberty League of the 30’s, brazenly showed
its hand in Chicago last week.
A GOP campaign l'ally was being held in the
3rd congressional district for candidate Fred
Busbey, who has the endorsement of Gerald L.
K. Smith and every section of the native fascist
clan.
Edward Hayes, national chairman of Ameri
can Action, Inc., was the main guest speaker on
.behalf of Busbey.
Speaking with Hayes for Busbey was none
other than the leading Republican office-holder
in Illinois—Governor Dwight H. Green. .
The meeting brought together in open alliance
the reactionary coalition that is seeking a seizure
cf power. Hayes, the direct emissary of the big
gest of big businessman, and Green, a “respecta
ble” Republican front, joined hands in support of
Busbey, an associate of what used to be called
the “lunatic fringe.”
• • •
THERE ARE NOW enough pieces that can be
put together into a “Republican pattern.”
And that pattern takes a shape that is far
more sinister than merely a return to the Hoo
ver period. Republican leadership of 1946 is typi
fied by such figures as Col. Robert R. McCor
mick, who is on the record as an aivocate of
fascism.
Or consider the reaction of Sen. Robert A.
Taft, a top Republican leader to the Nuremberg
trials. Taft deplored the conviction of the Nazi
ringleaders, and, in effect, upheld their right to
do what they did and to do it again.
Another piece in the Republican pattern is the
timing of the current red-baiting drive, so remin
iscent of the Hitler rise to power.
Or think about the fact that Republican indus
trialists were able to “hold a gun to the head of
the American people,” in the words of Chester
Bowles, and force the removal of price controls.
And put into place that completing segment
of the pattern—the emergence of American Ac
tion, Inc., which gives organized form to the
conspiratorial alliance of Big Business, organized
fascism and Republican politics^
• • •
IT IS EASY to become discouraged by the
performance of the Truman administration and
its supporters in Congress. Its record in office
has been one of steady retreat before the drive
of the great monopoly interests toward chaos at
home and war abroad. It has failed at almost
every critical point when Franklin Roosevelt’s
program for the people was at stake.
But the shortcomings of . the Truman adminis
tration must become the soft spot in the line
through which the Republican panzers can push
a disastrous salient.
On the contrary, that line must now be but
tressed and bolstered by sending the most stal
wart progressives and independents into the Con
gress. That can be done on neat Tuesday.
The failure of Truman make it increasingly
urgent to mobilize the vote for progressive and
independent candidates, and to strengthen the
influence of Democrats like Henry Wallace and
Claude Pepper in the administration.
• • •
SAID WALLACE in Los Angeles last week:
“If (the Republicans) win control of the
House, we are really in for some hard times. We
shall then learn the full meaning 'of real infla
tion, sudden deflation, and of Soviet-baiting, la
bor-baiting, war-provoking tactics which will
will make the bipartisan bloc of the past Con
gress seem pale and ineffectual by comparison.”
Wallace’s warning have implications that go
far beyond November and the election of the
80th Congress. The political handwriting on the
wall says that new political alignments are in
the making.
• • •
THE VOTER, acting now, will have to look
beyond November to the crucial elections of
1948. In voting now, he will have to consider
how he can strengthen the hand of those who
will join in the building ©f a new party of the
people.
He will have to consider how he can help
weaken and defeat the reactionaries in both old
parties who stand in the path of progress. And
his sharpest blows must be directed at the pro
fascist McCormick wing of the Republican
Party who represent the gravest danger now
and in the future.
The STAR calls upon its readers to do their
share in the fight against this fascist-sponsored
drive against America. Get out the vote next
Tuesday— yours, your family’s, your friends’.
The great conspiracy can be smashed.