Is Wendell Willkie tarred with the Democratic brush? Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News, bitter Willkie foe, relentlessly tells its 2,000,000 daily readers that Willkie was once a "Tammany Democrat." Willkie opponents within the G.O.P. sneer at his One-Worldliness as an imitation of Henry Wallace. Many a plain G.O.P. voter wonders from time to time.
Last week Wendell Willkie made his first public statement on 1944 election issues, and tried to set the record straight on his Republicanism. To a group of Indiana Republicans at his Rushville home, he identified himself as one "devoted to the Republican Party." Said he:
"The Republican...
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