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August 30, 1944
capacity as Chief Executive and when he is serving as the leader of the Democratic Party. We envy neither the lesser official who look¬ ed upon FDR at Bremerton as a politician nor Assistant Secretary of War McCloy who chose to regard him on that occasion as the Nation’s President. The distinction can never easily be made and had better not be attempted. Now none of Mr. Roosevelt's rivals has a reason¬ able complaint--at least in respect to reaching the men in uniform abroad. Perhaps the soldiers will come out of this political cam¬ paign with a better knowledge of what it’s all about than the civilians at home."
President Roosevelt at his press conference Tuesday led up to the fact that he would make his first political speech to the International Teamsters Sept. 23 at a dinner arranged by Daniel J. Tobin, union president, with a long dissertation, described by those who heard it as very ironical, about plans to make a non¬ political speech on Christmas tree raising, but he was afraid this might be interpreted as a political speech.
Mr. Roosevelt said with heavy sarcasm that the tonic of raising, planting and selling Christmas trees was a very good topic for a non-political talk; one that should bring joy to the hearts of all.
He added with sustained irony that he was willing to produce his books showing that he had made money as a Christmas tree raiser for the inevitable investigation which would follow charges the address was political.
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NOT POLITICAL, EH? ASKED RE WAR DEPT. FDR RULING
Regarding Ruling No. 2 of the War Department that the Presi¬ dent’s broadcast from Bremerton was not political. Ruling No. 1 having said it was political, the Washington Daily Nows iScrippsHoward) ejaculated:
"Now isn't this somethin’ ? Acting Secretary of War McCloy rules that President--beg pardon, Coramander-inChief Roosevelt ’ s-address from Bremerton, Wash., after his trip to Honolulu and the Aleutians, was ’not political*. It was instead a ’report’. And so deciding, Mr. McCloy reverses a six-hour-old Array ruling that the law permitted the Socialist Party equal radio time for broadcast to soldiers overseas.
"0. K., let's take Mr. McCloy’ s word for it. Now the thing to do to make everything fair and square is for the Navy to provide a warship and escort for Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, to take a junket to our outposts and come back and make his 'nonpolitical* report. Then provide the same conveniences and setting for Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate. Comrade Browder, having dissolved his Communist Party and joined the New Deal, will need no special reservation this year."
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