WEEKLY WE EKL Y NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH TV labine german peace drive drivel eclipsed by war threats in near east politicians hold U S interest EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union on the washington scene POLITICS in the background since congress reconvened presidential politics stole the show again when the democratic national committee selected chicago as its convention site republicans public ans arts who scheduled their meeting later in the hope that democrats would set a convention date were outfoxed out foxed this resulted in minor dissension among G 0 P leaders who debated whether to set a date immediately or keep stalling since third termites dominated the democratic meeting observers guessed there would be a strong martin dies it had only served to strengthen him and the cause of his ism committee next day FBI rounded up 12 persons charged with recruiting americans for service with the communist forces in spain CONGRESS the house continued lopping millions from president Roosevel ts budget and the senate continued restoring them the te senate voted down a cut ut in civil aeronautics authority funds bringing the independent offices bill back to but it was still 55 millions under budget esti estimate provid fight to president ing a good start star on the roosevelt in the city millions congress where he was first chosen hopes to save by way of in 1932 avoiding new defense As chicago became a taxes meanwhile the political focal point so house slashed away at did illinois there were the state justice commerce signs that both president department appropriations roosevelt and vice president bill garner would be entered in the april 9 LABOR preference primary john lewis C 1 I 0 while in new york the which has been striking G 0 P backers of young ACCUSER nom HOOK at the new deal lately tom dewey challenged he apologized turned a partial about chios sen bob taft and face by defending the other republican hopefuls to a contest in the same primary UN americanism ended was the episode in which rep fr frank ank hook charged that martin un american ism dies was working in cahoots with william pelley leader of the anti semitic silver shirts when pelley surrendered and admitted that letters used as evidence were forged hook apologized on the house floor if this had been a campaign to smear irrepressible national labor relations act A F of L inspired changes before the house NLRB committee CIO s philip murray read a statement in which lewis charged reactionary an and d anti labor corporations are dictating A F of L s proposed amendments at miami A F of Ls los executive board was also getting hostile toward the new deal urging encouragement coura gement of private enterprise and charging the administration with trying to place labor under its thumb the entire labor govern ment picture was pretty complicated