President Roosevelt Accused by Mr. Willkie of Forming "Desperate Concentration of Power"
Coffeyville, Kansas, Sept. 17.
Wendell Willkie, Republican Presidential nominee, yesterday declared that the New Deal, since 1932, has accomplished "a desperate concentration of power," and predicted that another four years of the Roosevelt Administration would lead to dictatorship and an American totalitarian government.
In the first major address of his campaign, Mr. Willkie said the Roosevelt Administration had "already strained our Democratic institutions to the breaking point."
President Roosevelt's policies have aided Chancellor Adolf Hitler's programme, Mr. Willkie charged.
"Roosevelt was heedless of his responsibility," he said. "He launched political attack against our economic system and the turmoil made our depression permanent.
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