| Show 10 wes W W shi naton il D e fsr t national topics int interpreted eror eted by WILLIAM BRUCKART NATIONAL PRESS WASHING washington TiN JN D C ma ta m I 1 v w li chii ahe first brobin robin does not guarantee the immediate June diate arrival the smi smith ith of spring but when illien w bolt 1 v I thi the 4 ferst i r 6 0 b i n 3 is observed folks generally consider that there Is ia litt lit t tie 1 e left of winter an out land and out bolt by an individual in party pou poll does not gua guarantee guaranteed ranted important detections defections but like the arrival ol 01 the early robin arx anundi inda vidual vidual bolter iohd if ha be a man of consequence has a story of its own to tell A bolt in party politics j never attracts attention unless thoi the boating individual is of bf same some consequence siu enci and aad therefore has a personal er follo following thus it is thit that when we observe a bolt by a ni nationally tio nally individual al viduAl from his lifelong political affiliation rth we immediately understand its significance The scope of this significance fl ame however lio wever is the thing that concerns concern glus us nearly every everyone ofie knows now that former gov alfred E smith of new york democratic presidential nominee in 1928 has made known that he cannot support president roosevelt for reelection election re they know as well that the four other individuals who asked thoi the democratic national convention to push mr roosevelt aside and nom nominate a democrat can be classified as important individuals along with governor smith noone no one dare say that former sen james A ried reed of missouri former governor ely of massachusetts bainbridge colby secretary iry ot of state in woodrow wilsons Wil sons administration and daniel F cohalan one time tammany chieftain are unimportant in politics they have consistently figured in democratic party councils and thus it becomes apparent that these five robins presage sor something more than ahan just their own departure from the ranks of I 1 supporters remake this statement notwithstanding the declaration by james A parley farley that he would fy their statement with wrepsy a reply of course burse mr parley farley as postmaster general ral chairman of the democratic ac befi t 1 c national committee chairman of the new york state democratic committee and delegate to thi the Democratic 1 national conven necessarily was a very busy man at the time the smith statement refusing support to president roo roosevelt sevelt was wag released for publication cati nevertheless I 1 a am m in a position to know that the smith stat statement emed t threw quite a scare into new deal ranks frankly they did not lik Ii keit elit how much they do not like the smith statement remains to be seen I 1 believe that no one and can I 1 recast forecast exactly how much strength 0 this group can pull away from mr roosevelt in the novem 1 ber election much will depend upon their personal activities henceforth if men like smith and jim reed and ely take the stump it if they go out onto the hustings and actually campaign for governor landon tho the republican nominee at it seems to me obvious that such cam campaigning will damage the roosevelt Roosevlt cause bause materia materially ll 11 r it was the natural strategy for mr farley to follow in declining con comment 1 on the smith defection his assertion that the smith statement was so unimportant as to require no reply i will ill be convincing to a very adry great many voters who already have made up their minds to support mr roosevelt but the truth is that the election has not been won yet by either side and any votes that are influenced by such a group as that headed by Governor Go vernon smith will have weight in the final determination olour of our next president the smith defection becomes the more important in my opinion be cause it occurred lemke almost Third Paty bously with the development of a third party under the leadership of i rep william lemke of north dakota this picture may not be entirely clear to everyone it is substantially this lemke and his colleagues are attempting to draw tog together ther them the extreme radicals them the leftist groups the bulk of these will come from the democratic party if the lemke organization develops any particular strength the smith group represents the conservative or rightist element in the democratic party thusie tea sea detraction from the roosevelt strength en cn two sides I 1 do not mean to say here heie that the combination of these circumstances i will swill insure president Roosevel ts defeat anyone who would make such a declaration at his time demonstrates his lack of morledge mow edge ledge of political maneuvers W whit h az t I 1 am see seeking kingto to show however is that robins have arrived in the back yar yard dand and in the front aront yard oftie new deal party and if the he leaders of the two obstreperous groups engage viciously in this campaign the time may come when mr parley farley will recognize their importance ethere already has hag hagreen been evidence of the ille influence of the lemke radical segment I 1 think everyone agrees that the announcement of the third pats organization vitally affected the type of platform that ads s written in Wai washington hington and adopted adopt iol by the democratic convention it at philadelphia from many sources comes information that the democratic platform was made much more inore liberal some critics describe it as more socialistic than would have been the case had ha d representative lemko stayed out of the political picture he has the backing of father coughlin the detroit D radio priest and his national union for social justice and he has the backing of the remnants of the late huey longs share the wealth adherents in addition the townsend send a month pension followers will be found behind lemke ao to some come extent I 1 have observed these third party movements many times before and usually they have failed to live up to expectations they nearly always have developed fights among themselves because the very nature of and the very reason far for their existence lies in their varied conceptions of what government ought to be or ought to do their sincerity precludes them usually from compromise and when politicians refuse to compromise their organization whatever it may bs be naturally disintegrates this may be the year when the otist leftist segment will stick together and if it does it naturally threatens mr Roosevel ts success I 1 confidently fi expect to see overtures seeping out from new deal sources in an effort to placate some of the lemke followers it is a logical I 1 piece of strategy for the new dealers to seek to wean these recal recalcitrant cl folks from the third party the european disturbances continue apace it is a situation that is extremely in trouble te resting and one in in europe that probably will untold unfold as the weeks go by in curious ways 1 I say curious because to us in america ic it has been rather difficult to understand understand the meaning of many of the maneuvers that followed the outright subjugation of ethiopia by the power thirsty mussolini of italy word that comes rather direct from inner councils in europe indicates a tremendous fear on the part P aft of italy and france about german plans the british likewise aise tire are displaying nervousness and the present alliances and combinations bi of power existing in eur rope ope are none too stable it is just possible that germanys germanas Germ anys hitler may by his present activities force a new cementing of these alliances and understandings among other powers betat but at this time there is ik no mistaking the fact that europe outside of germany is a bundle of nerves it seems that the basis for this nervousness is rooted in the clever sc scheming hemink of dr hjalmar schacht who is something of an economic dictator under hitler dr schacht is a brilliant negotiator he understands der dr e stands economics trade and finance as well as any man in europe today and when you couple such knowledge with diplomatic keenness you obviously have a man capable of accomplishing results dr schacht is employing the methods he knows best namely economic understandings in making new connections with central european power and the balkan states in the case of italy an economic weapon in the hands of germany might easi italis ay iy prove dasas case amus trous because italy virtually exhausted li her gold reserve in the late la war and her government cannot go on much longer in furnishing purchasing power for her people france has been able to open certain markets to the little entente and to the balkans and has in addition provided some financial aid thus when dr schacht pats the neighbors of germany germ on the back and points out where r e markets can be made for them in germany france and italy quickly develop cases of jitters t 0 it seems that austria and hungary cannot depend fully on italian markets because of the low gold reserve in italy in the meantime as well france has been losing millions in gold as her own do domestic situation has been embroiled in a political whirlpool the austrians Aust rians and the hungarians Hung arians and some of the other central europeans recognize that unless france gets 9 ets straightened out there will not be purchasing power available avail ablo there for their surplus produce so dr schacht is cultivating what appears from this distan distance teto to be a fertile field 0 r western newspaper union |
