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Show The sudden chmiRe in Washlng-, Washlng-, international outlook, proceed pro-ceed bv the three-power 1 treaty Juveen Gennany, Italy and Japan , divide the world between thorn, ,,, a check to the enthusiasm for ouvnment of the 76th Congress n the previously scheduled date. nce asaln the President said that he didn't care whether Congress nt home or not, but Senators nd Representatives thought t'hev'd better stay here and keep ab'on what is going on that may bring the United States closer to "That the new treaty among the dictators was intended as a wnrn-llr wnrn-llr to the United States to keep out of tropble by withdrawing further aid to Britain and China is generally accepted here. It has not had that effect, however, nor Is it likely to. There is no question hat the State Department knew that such a move was coming, several sev-eral davs before the announcement of the treaty came from Berlin. It is significant of the Administration's Adminis-tration's attitude, therefore, that only a day or two before the news canie out, the Export-Import Bank under Presidential authority, lent 25 million dollars to China, and on the same day the President put his name to an embargo against the exportation of scrap iron and steel to any nation except the British. Sliip At Japan . . . Both of those actions were direct di-rect slaps at Japan, which has been getting nine-tenths of the scrap motal needed for its munitions mu-nitions plants form the United States. The prevailing lmpreslon here is that Japnn's action in joining join-ing up with Hitler and Mussolini to try to stop the United States is a good deal of a bluff. In Congressional Con-gressional circles there is a feeling feel-ing that instead of Hitler using Japan as his tool, Japan is making a fool of Hitler. There is no doubt here that Hitler Hit-ler is extremely anxious to prevent any further aid from the United States to Britain, and that he figured fig-ured that if he could get Japan to throw a war scare into this country coun-try American interests would switch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But insiders in the State Department are said to believe that the Japanese -were more a-fraid a-fraid that Hitler would grab the Dutch East Indies before they get around to doing that themselves, and that they figured that by getting get-ting Hitler's signature to a treaty leaving all eastern Aisa to Japan, they could put one over on him. Whatever the ins and outs of the situation as between dictators, their three-cornered deal, with its implications that they will all gang up against the United States unless we keep our fingers out of the international mess, has had powerful effects here. It has strengthened the position of those who have felt that our national security demands helping Britain to win, and it has intensified the watchfulness of members of both Houses lest something might break which would call for immediate imme-diate Congressional action. Therefore There-fore a recess over election, as soon as all necessary tax bills are out of the way, instead of adjournment, adjourn-ment, is the revised program. Minority Makes Change . . . The Republican minority has had a good deal to do with the change. Aided by those Democrats who don't like Mr. Roosevelt, they have got a majority of the House to come around their way of thinking, think-ing, which is this: If Congress adjourns it can't meet again of its own free will, but only if recalled into session by the President. It can recess, however, and still come back at will. Too many members who don't feel like leaving full control of all national affairs in the President's hands, unchecked by congress, that has seemed the better way of doing things. It is quite possible that the present Congress may still be in session, with occasional recesses, up to the time the next one comes in. Vice-President Garner's return from Texas, where he has been vacationing ever since the Democratic Demo-cratic convention, had nothing to do with the war emergency. He came back to find out why the boys weren't quitting, but mainly because he was being criticized for what many regarded as sulk- and beneficiaries of New Deal appropriations, ap-propriations, rather than because of any great popular enthusiasm for him. All the real enthusiasm in this campaign, those who have been around the country lately say, is found in the Wilkie camp. While all observers agree that the trend of public sentiment is running strongly Republican so far as Congressional and state candidates are concerned, many doubt whether the trend is strong enough to carry the Presidential ticket even in states which are expected to elect Republican Governors, Gov-ernors, Senators and Congressmen. Congress-men. For this reason the Republicans Repub-licans are picking the best vote-getters vote-getters they have for such offices, in the hope that their nominations may influence voters to vote the ticket straight. ing over his failure to get the Presidential nomination. His failure fail-ure to attend the funeral of Speaker Bankhead was being pointed to as evidence that he had turned sour on all his friends. May Campaign , , . Mr. Garner may be heard from in the Presidential campaign, but has given no intimation as to what he may say or do. The best political polit-ical dopesters are pointing out that President Roosevelt is losing no opportunity to make re-election capital out of the war situation, as witness his actions in the matter mat-ter of the Chinese loan and the embargo on scrap metal for Japan. The same expert political observers ob-servers are saying that if Mr. Roosevelt is elected for a third term it will be because of the tremendous tre-mendous power of the political machine of Federal office-rolders |