Ickes to Willlcie

The Democratic candidate for President last week disdained to answer the challenge in Wendell Willkie's G. O. P acceptance speech. President Roosevelt instead chose waspish Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to sting back Mr. Willkie. Some Ickes stingers:

> "If Mr. Willkie is so eager for a debate ... I suggest that he challenge his running mate, Senator McNary, with whom he is at greater variance . . . than . . . with the President."

> ". . . Willkie, the rich man's Roosevelt; Willkie, the simple, barefoot Wall Street lawyer. ..."

> "A man cannot make an effective assault upon the New Deal when he accepts the New Deal in principle. He cannot make political capital out of the foreign policy of the Administration when he agrees with that policy."

> ". . . He proclaims that he is a liberal. . . . Where was Wendell Willkie when the Republicans were fighting ... all of these measures which he now says that he supports? . . . He was doing his very able best to prevent the most dynamic and hopeful project of the whole New Deal--the Tennessee Valley Authority--from functioning."

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