Gloat

John O'Donnell, Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, who hates the New Deal and loves to gloat, found something to gloat about last week. Having just read a supplement to the ardently internationalist New Republic taxing Thomas E. Dewey with onetime isolationist leanings and general inconsistency in foreign policy, Columnist O'Donnell had dug out of the files a 1935 statement by the same weekly. After noting current proposals for new U.S. armaments, it said:

"No thoughtful citizen can read these items without a sinking of the heart. Our militarists who largely control our government are exactly like those of every other country. They are pushing us steadily and inexorably toward a war that nobody wants, a war that would do nobody any good, not even, in the long run, the munition makers and foreign traders and investors in whose interests our present policies are supposedly pursued."

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