Show NA NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Fight on Presidents President's aid- aid Britain to-Britain program links personal element to Wil Wilson's Wilsons W il- il ilson sons son's son s opposition Brit Brit- British British British ish make grave mistake in agricultural policy Bell Dell Syndicate Service So WASHINGTON W So many of the political phases of the present nt help to Britain situation remind observers ers of ot the days Just before Ameri Amen American can participation In the first World war that the actual relationships of some of the men involved are of interest For instance there is Sen Ben Ben- Bennett Bennett Bennett nett Champ Clark Clark of Missouri one of the leading opponents opponents 1 of President Roosevelt's foreign y policy The senator is the son of Speak Speak- Speaker er Champ Clark who in 1915 and 1916 k ti was one of the out out- outstanding outstanding t standing opponents of President Wilson c insisting as his son does now that the i. i President is leading Senator Clark us into war Of course the Clark case was em em- embittered embittered embittered by the personal rivalry of the two men Champ Clark had been beena a candidate candid te for the Democratic nomination In 1912 and according to majority rule was in a way en en- entitled entitled entitled titled to it for he won von all aU the primaries primaries primaries maries in which he entered including IncludIng including ing some against Woodrow Wilson Senator Clark C ark was his fathers father's parliamentary clerk at the time and no son was ever more devoted devoted- devotedly ly loyal and partisan LA FOLLETTE ISOLATIONIST Another son who is i carrying on the same fight his father ather made against the White House on the iso isolationist iso iso- isola isolationist la issue is Robert M. M La L Fol- Fol lette Perhaps no figure In our po po- political political po- po political history was ever treated more drastically than the elder La Fol- Fol Follette Follette Follette lette for what was regarded as his unpatriotic course Charles A. A Lindbergh consciously or not Is affected by the same sort sorto of o thing His father a member of the house in those days was an iso Iso- isolationist isolationist and voted against the declaration dec dec- declaration declaration of war He was persecuted at a time when the Atlantic flier was wasat wasat wasat at probably the most impressionable age Sen Burton K Wheeler Is another of this group though in Wheelers Wheeler's case he underwent persecution him him- self sell In the war days he was a dis dis- district district dis- dis district attorney in Montana dad nd if there was anything short of traitor which was not said about him it could not be printed anyway He had plenty of enemies enemies both in Montana and Washington who vir vir- virtually virtually virtually left nothing unsaid about him so naturally he bears a few ew scars Add to this the fact that he be be- became became became came closely associated later with 1 the elder La Follette being his run run- running running running ning mate on the Progressive ticket for President in 1924 and you have havea a background which will explain ev ev- J j cry thing A study of the list of those opposing opposIng opposing 1 ing the lend-lease lend bill to aid Britain will reveal that while the illustrations illustrations illustrations given are the most spectacular 1 lar there are plenty of others J 4 Britain's Britain Agricultural J Policy Unsound 1 It is very obvious now that the British made a mistake In their whole agricultural policy from the national defense standpoint standpoint-a a mis mis- mistake mistake take almost as grave as their lack of preparedness Sir Charles Ross inventor and manufacturer of o the famous Ross rifle in the days preceding and dur dur- during durIng during ing the last World war has been pounding away at the British gov government government from his home in Wash Wash- Washington Washington Washington ington since 1939 to do something drastic about the food situation Sir Charles has been deeply in in- interested interested in agricultural problems for many years As the largest remain remain- remaining remaining remaining ing landowner in Scotland he pried every bit of information possible out of the U U. S. S department of agriculture ture tune with a view to making those lands more productive As a result he came early to a pronounced conviction that thal tractors were absolutely necessary necessary Early In the war he urged that it was vital to Britain's safety to have every possible acre producing food He seized on a calculation printed In Inthe Inthe Inthe the London Times which showed that some odd acres which had been under cultivation at the close of the last war in 1918 were not being used for or the production |