Cleveland, Oct. 3.
In the major foreign policy speech of his campaign, Mr. Wendell Willkie, Republican Presidential candidate, said here last night that Germany, Italy and Japan are "thinking of the United States in terms of war and have come to believe that we are neither a strong nor great nation."
He blamed President Roosevelt fcr the alleged attitude of the Totalitarian Powers toward the Umied States.
He said the President had "played polities with preparedness."
Mr. Willkie charged that the New Deal had watched Chancellor Adolph Hitler "advancing" but had taken no adequate steps to prepare the defences of the United States.
Until she has built up her armed strength, Mr. Willkie declared, the United States should refrain from "inviting aggressive pacts against the American people." His reference obviously was to the recently concluded Triple Alliance.
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