Washington, Oct. 7.
Mr. Norman Thomas, the Socialist Pariy's Presidential candidate, last night accused the administration of placing the United States in the immediate peril of becoming involve ed in war with Japan, Italy and Germany in an effort to ' preserve "western imperialism."
The Socialist leader, in his radio broadcast, said that a "For Eastern war...would. have for us absolutely: no economic justification... The Philippines would be safer....if we did not tempt Japan to attack them.... Not a single economic or political problem in the long history of Asia would be permanently solved by victory.
"We would still have to reckon not only with the - Japanese, but with China's ambitions."
Mr. Thomas accused Mr, Wendell I.: Willkie, Republican Presidential candidate, of. advocating a foreign policy similar to that of President Roosevelt.—United Press.
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