es —NEW YORK. es HE Republican party jl is seeing ghosts, Pre- paring for the 1948 Presidential race, its policy- Makers are being haunted by -the man whose death they cele- brated over two years ago. The ' only solution, they seem to feel, is to beat his spirit to a pulp. This is the only reasonable explanation that has been found for the current Republican- Sponsored probe of war con- tractors, in which the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt is being SMeared and re-smeared_ to hewspaper deadline in the coun- try. __ A real probe of war profiteer- ing would draw loud cheers from every progressive organiz- ation and individual in the U.S. _ What the Republicans did, how- ever, was to bypass the big oil, Shipping and other major prof- iteering scandals to start a Mud-slinging campaign against two relatively minor industrial- ‘ists who also happened to be Supporters of the New Deal. The two industrialists are Henry J. Kaiser, who in the past aroused venom among his fel- low auto producers by violating their code of ethics and accept- ing demands of the auto union; and Howard Hughes of Trans- World Airlines, a growing con- cern that is cutting into the Worldwide market which Pan- birthright. Through innuendo and occa- Sionally through direct charges, the probers have tried to estab- lish that Roosevelt wasted nine- tenths’ of the taxpayers’ money ‘Nn crazy notions which made Profits for his friends but did ‘Nothing to help the war. - Overlooking the success of Roosevelt-sponsored atom:smash- ing and other major scientific _Xperiments, the probers are ‘basing their case on, one un- _ Successful experiment with a fly- ing boat, 2 _ * Stories of lavish parties and ._ beautirul Hollywood girls are ee Make a new headline for every . American Airways considers its — -ean Senator the r ghost haunts icans | epubl added for color. Linked with this expensive entertainment is the name of Elliot Roosevelt, the one son of the late presi- dent who has staunchly adhered to his father’s policies of friend- ship toward labor and toward the Soviet Union. The only unfortunate aspect of the case, from the point of view of the Republican in- vestigators, is that both Kaiser and Hughes have counter-attack- ed with charges of their own. According to Kaiser, the big steel interests are behind the probe because they want to get rid of him and any other ob- stacles to their campaign to ‘keep steel in short supply and maintain inflated prices. Hughes has accused Republi- Owen Brewster, who is leading the investiga- tion, of being tied up with Pan- American Airways in a cam- paign to drive TWA out of the field. | ~ Is MacArthur the by WILLIAM HE democratic people of the FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Z. FOSTER United States—and elsewhere—will do well to keep a sharp eye on the political maneuverings of General McArthur in connection with the presidential elections of 1948. For undoubtedly, the most reactionary forces in the U.S., those that are most actively cultivating fasc is already fi y finding of the earth. \ “ Jews of Palestine. @ The Kuomintang gove Scale, although losing war, armies, @ The Greek | 8suerrillas, | ®te American-trained. at And the same is. true eee & a : a ; The Doctrine in action 1 as Truman-Marshal Doctrine can be studied not only é It paper. It is not merely a promise of things to come. expression in wars raging in four corners - @ The Dutch government is conducting t tary attack on the Indonesian Republic. @ The British government continues its war against the rithent ‘is continuing its large- against the Chinese liberation government wages its war against Greek Every one of those four wars is earried on by grace of erican and British military supplies. In the case of Indonesia, the U.S. 2 ay warned the Indonesian Hepwolls a agar Dutch* terms nN pain of losing a, promised Import-Expor The uniforms worn by the Dutch troops ‘ag area te the attacks against the Indonesians are American, for Chiang ic as the war of the Greck royalists against ‘their own people. y Tru ainst the Jews W : e, the British war ag aga ‘not: made in’ the U.S: & its own initiative. But it does istance of the at country. a Where is the ‘red menace’ in ‘Indonesia? on a full-scale mili- State Department aetu- loan.° Kai-shek’s war, as well who managed to U.S. delegation fuses to support the demand | n it does in Greece © 283) 8 Tshall Plan, which is waging. the Bite say that peace is = arney are being waged by grace ~& diplomacy. ; Pee: : t qt is ee American people who can and must put ous © flames—before they sweep the world again. ¥RID AY, AUGUST 8, 1947 ist and war tendencies, are planning to utilize the General spearhead ir their in- creasing attacks upon peace, progress and democracy both here and abroad, and especially in their attempt to capture the presidency and Congress in the coming elections.” ; ‘It is a well-known fact that MacArthur himself is a reac- tionary. This he showed clearly enough 15 years ago, by allow- ing himself to be used by President Hoover to drive the bonus marchers by force from their Washington encampment. He has since then lived up to this early reactionary reputa- tion by his imperialistic policies in Japan, by his turning the Philippines over to the collab- orationists headed by Roxas, by his fascist-like letters assailing President Roosevelt, and by his generally close tie-up with the America First-Chicago Tribune crowd. — ‘ \ The first step that ultra-re- action has in mind in using General MacArthur as its chief standard bearer in 1948 is to bring him back from _ the Pacifié area in an aura of glory and’ give him a _super-’ welcome as the great conqueror of Japan. This glorification will introduce him into the political situation with a grand splash. Recent press dispatches have stated that the General’s home- coming is slated to take place next April;; that is, just on the eve of the Republican and Democratic national conventions. ‘theless Although MacArthur is within two days’ flying time of the United States and he could easily have visited this country since V-J Day, he has never- carefully remained in Japan, so that his homecoming welcome will occur’ just as the presidential electoral situation is - coming to a boil. The aim will be’ to develop MacArthur spec- tacularly as a major element in the developing election fight. e o T, concretely, do the Mc- Cormick ultra - reactionaries have in mind for MacArthur? Are they planning to grab the Republican présidential nomin- ation for him, in the midst of the suddenly blown-up mass ex- _citement for -his carefully de- layed homecoming from the wars? It could well be. MacArthur cannot be dis- missed lightly as a presidential contender. The most fascist- minded section of the Republic- an party, centering around the Colonel McCormick gang, are very powerful and they may well deem the time ripe, with opposing’ Republican cliques split, to seize the nomination for their political champion. It need hardly be added. that should they succeed in this scheme the U.S, would be faced with the imminent danger of a. sharpening of all the menaces of fascism and war now eman- ating from the reactionaries’ ranks. Or, possibly, if they cannot grab the presidential nomina- tion for*General MacArthur, the McCormick crowd .of American- brand fascists will undertake to use the General’s powerful influ- -ence in Republican circles to determine just who shall be the Republican nominee, to decide the content of the Republican platform, to strengthen’ the A ‘democracy’ now HE United States is satis- fied with Argentina’s com- Pliance with the anti-Nazi pro- visions of the act of Chapulte- pec and is now willing to re- sume discussions of a western hemisphere defense pact with that Latin American republic, according to President Tru- man. Truman’s decision will come~ as a shock to the AFL delega- tion which visited Argentina months ago and found the unions were government-dom- inated and that the Peron regime was destroying the remnants of the free labor movement. _ Here are more facts about “Argentine ‘democracy:’ A law passed by the Peron controlled legislature prohibits the exhibition of any ‘disre- spect’ towards the government from the press. The ‘disrespect’ covers a wide area. Liberal editors have been jailed and some are still await- ing trial. Anti-Peron papers like El Mundo, La Prensa and ‘La Nacion have been stoned . And last, former’ United Press Correspondent William R. Mizelle, writing from Buenos Aires in the New Republic, “Argentina remains the snug- gest haven for Nazis who schemed and still scheme for German world supremacy. Nearly, 100,000 pro-Nazis are still running around free and unmolested in the country. Of these, 60,000 belong to the Nazi party..." - Welcome Argentina, to the ranks of the ‘democratic’ na- tions! man on horseback? — Position of the ultra-reactionary forces in the Republican elec- tion line-up, and, in the event of election victory, to pump fascists into the new adminis- tration. . In view of the very probable hard fight between Taft, Dewey and others for the nomination, such a king-maker role by Gen- eral MacArthur is by no means © out of the question. ; IS plain, therefore, that the democratic forces must begin to pay attention to General MacArthur and the sinister role the reactionaries are planning for him to play in the elec- tions. It would be folly for them to stand aside and allow the people, unwarned, to fall victims to the deluge of reac- tionary demagogyse that will mark the triumphal return of MacArthur. To be forewarned ‘is to be forearmed: The’ time tc begin to put the American people on. guard against the _ reactionary effects of: MacAr- thur’s sudden plunge into the political. struggle, is right now, | not after he has arrived and is being: paraded and feted and glorified with all the powerful” propaganda forces of reaction. General MacArthur is'a main political hope and instrument of the most dangerous’ minded and warmongering ele- ments in the United States. He must not be allowed to develop — unchallenged the political offen- sive that he and his backers _ are planning’ for next year. — The trade unions, the Negro people and other democratic elements should turn their attention to him at once and unmask both him and_ the malignant forces’ who stand be-- hind him. The U.S. needs no man on horseback to ride his of = way. into this most vital national elections. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 11 fascist- :