National Affairs: Willkie's Issue

Last week Wendell Willkie named the issue of the 1940 campaign: state socialism.

Whatever you want to call it, he said, "national socialism, national capitalism or a complete concentration of power in a centralized government of the economic forces of the country. . . . That is the issue."

There was much more in Wendell Willkie's preachments last week.

But that the 1940 campaign, unlike most U. S. political battles, reached into almost every aspect of U. S. life, became clearer as election day and the future approached with locomotive speed. In the long debate...

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