Willkie Makes a Manifesto
At 7:30 one morning last week, when downtown Manhattan was quiet as a bank vault, Wendell Willkie hurried into his skyscraper office, to start one of the biggest projects of his political life: to lead the Republican Party away from Isolation. He discovered that he had forgotten his key. While he waited for the janitor to let him in, he stamped up & down the hall outside, thinking over his problem and his opportunity, composing in his mind a manifesto.
Four days before, when the House passed the ship-arming bill (259-138), Willkie talked with three Republican Senators...
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