Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-25 | Page 4 | Merry-Go-Round

Merry Round Merry Go Round nd Trade Mark MarkBy By DREW PEARSON end and ROBERT ALLEN llEN V WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ASHINGTON When the ex executive committee commit commit- tee lee of the Republican an national committee convened here today Willi William m Edgar Borah was sitting in his hotel in Boise Idaho But for all practical purposes his stern visage was staring over the shoulder ot e ch member of the committee as it was called to order in Washington Washington Wash Wash- I a ington D. D C. C For no other problem facing the Republican party is so acute so vital as that of whether Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Borah wants the Republican nomination whether he can get it if he does and finally whether he could win against Franklin Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt veIt in 1936 If logic were the rule of polities politics the last question question question ques ques- tion should first But since politics bows chiefly before power and selfish interest the question which furrows the brows of G. G O. O P. P leaders is not so much whether Borah could be elected but whether he wants the nomination badly enough to make them swallow him Boran Boral Boo Boom The They p recognize that Borah's stock has been de decidedly decidedly de- de bullish for some time His boom is the most significant development to date in the presidential presidential presidential scramble What really worries rival Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican managers is the fact that the boom is cropping out in inthe the most orthodox Republican circles Applause for the thc Idaho senator in the radical northwest causes old guard G. G O. O P. P leaders no loss of sleep But when a President for club is organized in Los Angeles and bails hails him as the defender of the constitution against the vagaries of new that's that's that's different Borah's Age Most effective the behind-the-back argument used against Borah is his age He will willbe be by the time he could be inaugurated No other president has been elected this late in life To those who know him well however Borah shows few effects of f the grueling political grind of the past third of a century His daily horseback rides probably were ere ere the best investment he ever made in his life And whether old ola guard leaders want him or not Borah is going to make a fight for it The last strategy he mapped out to friends before before before be be- fore leaving Washington was this Borah will-put will up such a out knock campaign n that either he gets the nomination himself or or else gets the power to pick the candidate Looking around the political horizon Borah has seen all too clearly hat that he holds the key power in the Republican party He can pick a progressive and try to force him upon the old guard leaders or he can insist on the nomination himself He says now that he does not care care which But unless he is far tar different from most men he willaim will willaim aim for the latter Note Note Note-Borah Borah vows that he would vote for Roosevelt before he would cast another ballot for Herbert Hoover German Flag The adoption of the Swastika as the official flag of nazi Germany is causing large sighs of relief to at least one individual in Washington He is stubble-haired stubble Hans Luther who wh occupies occupies pies the highly enviable role of German Ambassador dor to the United States Before the Swastika became Germanys Germany's official emblem Ambassador Luther was invited to speak at an international ceremony at Georgetown uni uni- The flags of all nations were to be dis dis- dis- dis played As each was hauled aloft it was to be hailed by a blare of trumpets I Ambassador Luther who had got into some soine trouble with his his' government once before when the swastika was not unfurled had his counselor telephone in in advance t to state that two German flags fags must be used used the the swastika and the flag of the republic But Father Edmund A. A Walsh dean of the Georgetown Foreign Service school demurred To fly tw two German fl flags gs he said would attract undue attention and be a slight to other nations If both flags are not ll fl flown wn Counselor Leitner insisted the ambassador cannot come Finally Father Walsh hit upon a compromise solution He had the two flags sewn together back to back The audience could see the flag of the third reich But the ambassador mb sitting on on the platform facing the audience could make sure that he was saluting Hitler's che cherished swastika The presidents president's invitation to Harold Ickes to join him on his Pacific fishing trip had h-ad behind it primarily his appreciation of what Ickes suffered during his wife's death The Santa Fe automo- automo pile Jaile il disaster combined with the fact that th the secretary secretary sec sec- of the interior has taken almost no vacation since the new deal st started hit him hard Also Roosevelt wanted to dispel rumors that he was on the outs with Ickes Copyright 1935 by United Peature Syndicate Inc