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Show -2- EXCERPT FRO ,~ ARilmJR GAETH t S BROADCAST October 8, 1943 J. Heuben Clark followed what ha.s often been inferred in some of his themes: that the present administration is a more dangerous enemy of the American people than Ad.olf Hitler; government by directive, domestic usurpa.- tion o:f fundamental rights, constituting tyranny in its most complete form, are a far greater threat to free institutions tha.n the outcome of the war. He warned the large assembly of 1 ife insurance rnen that their business was threatened by the com:rnu.nistic trends of the government--he pulled out his red herrings again, tha-t in spite of the fact tha.t there are more ·oig busi-ness men in the government of the United StEtes today--men like Stettiniu.s, HE<.rriman, Jesse Jones, Chester :Bowles, u1arriner Eccles, ~Jelson Rockefeller, Bill Knudsen 1 Donetld Nelson, to na..me only a few. He seemed entirely uncon-scious of the fact that we are in a tmr as he lamented the existence of fed-er::~. l regulations imposed. upon farmers. Re flayed the adiJini$tra.tion for com-pelling the householder to rent his house for a rent which they determined; for setting the speed a.t which people can drive their cars; for regulating the E.mount of gasolino we can consume; for the numbe:r· of tires we may use a.nd ti1(~ places to and the business on which we may travel. Now, ma.ny Americans may not 1 ike the manner in which these controls ere administered, 'but this is one of the few times that an American has overlooked the war and wanted to condemn the whole procedure just because it did not measure up to what we have had in the past in pe~.ce-tirue. It is astonishing to what extent people will explode poli tics.l venom and hates at times--how in their own minds they may be completely unconscious of the fact that this country is now involved in a war and that its resources must be diverted to that struggle rather than to se.tisfying the civilian needs !or a population that could consume the pz·od. uctive capacity of this country, lec-.ving nothing for the conduct of the vtar. |
