The wheel turns full circle. Twenty years ago Vietnik Paul O’Dwyer, the forlorn Democratic candidate for Jacob Javits’ Senate seat, received and accepted the nomination for Congress of the Communist-dominated American Labor Party. Last week he was denounced by a group of black militants as a “fascist pig.”
The American Institute for Economic Research has summarized the economic positions of the three major political parties. In its Research Report of October 21 it concludes its discussion of George Wallace’s platform as follows: “Leaders of the American Independent Party have promised not to interfere with the price mechanism and not to attempt to influence economic activity by adjusting taxes. However, their views concerning the Federal Government’s obligations to solve economic problems such as poverty and unemployment, like the views of the leaders of the two major parties, far transcend the limitations placed on the Government by the Constitution. Moreover, the platform of this party, like that of each of the others, reveals little understanding of the uneconomic laws and institutions that account for many such problems.”
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