The Archive · 1940

US. Administration Accused of Laxity Mr, Willkie Condemns Lack Of Aircraft Industry

Aboard Wendell Willkie's Special Train Enroute to San Francisco,

Sept, 21.

Mr. Wendell Willkie, Republican Presidential candidate, last might changed ihe New Deal with failure to develop the American aircraft ing dustry in peacetime so that the nation could obtain an immediate supply of fighting planes in times of emergency.

iMr. Willkie said that in his future campaign speeches-he would "outline a programme of steps which should have been taken and which, beginning January^We will be taken"—providing that Mi Willkie is elected President.

Addressing 70,000 persons in Los Angeles Thursday night, Mr. Willkie said, "If you want a Totalitarian system of government in this couniry, don't vote-for me. I am headed in the opposite direction."—United Press.

Gale—Thomson

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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