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Incompetent Leadership - Our Fifth Column. Political speech given by Austin Levy, a Republican. The speech details his opinion of the Democratic Leadership of the country under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is advocating a political shift to the Republican party. The " Fifth Column" he refers to is : A fifth Column clothed in the habiliments of good intention, and is all the more difficult for us to recognize and deal with on that account. The Fifth Column from which our country has most to fear is nothing more nor less than a Fifth Column of inertia; - a Fifth Column of incompetence." ( p.3)