Bricker Speaks

"America is not, never has been and will never be an isolationist nation." So said Ohio's white-haired Governor John W. Bricker last week, speaking before the august Academy of Political Science in Manhattan. "The term defines nothing. It is used for selfish interests and by some blind fanatics who see goblins. America must and will assume leadership. . . ."

This was the contribution of Ohio's Republican Presidential possibility to U.S. international thinking last week. It was one of the most vigorously uninspired, tweedledum-tweedledee political utterances of 1943. As such, it fell as flat as Humpty Dumpty. But John Bricker was being advisedly cautious. One misplaced comma and the rest of the Republicans and all the Democrats would be after him in a joyous wolf pack, ripping him to ribbons.

His strategy was still one of no commitments, no comments. This might be exactly the wrong strategy with which to attract anxious U.S. voters in 1944. And it might not.

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