Show I I I N M 5 Q I I Pi D E E Es E's C s 5 Q T T U T-U I U I F C F C F The By News PAUL w Behind MALLON the N News News News' WS WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-P P r resident e s I dent Roosevelt Rooseve Ls Is said to fo have returned f from rom South America with an n undiminished undiminished undiminished un- un diminished personal hankering for forthe forthe t the he role of world peace leader and good will promoter At least some of his liberal friends are so sure of it that they have begun forming forming form form- l ing ag to l keep him moving along t the he restricted lines they would like t to o see him follow For one thing they do not want him to deal with European l leaders leaders lead lead- aders ad- ad ers in any kind of joint move for fora a conference at the Azores or anywhere Their antagonism to conferences seems to have been s strengthened by the Buenos Aires results Their argument is that if nothing nothing noth noth- i ing ng more effective can be done under the most favorable circumstances circumstances circum circum- s stances there is no need to try appealing to Hitler Mussolini Stalin or even Premier Baldwin on a man man to man basis What most of the liberals around the White House would like to have is isa isa isa a stronger neutrality law and nothing more A second group says the United States cannot neutralize itself out of the next war any more than it did the last on one and therefore Mr Roosevelt must make a world peace move ove of some kind This group is distinctly in the minority now but it is supposed to include Mr Roosevelt This has always been the way wayn wayn i in n n which big policies es have evolved within the new deal When as many varying viewed advisers are behind any leader big inside fights are inevitable and this one may be the biggest of the coming session The outcome is yet un un- un- un certain Self-interest Self Another phase of the Hie neutrality fight light is already starting among congressmen Cotton congressmen congress congress- men are saying Mr Roosevelt's embargo powers powers do not and cannot cannot cannot can can- not in Include lude their product Oil sen senators t rs are s saying y rig congress ss intended to leave out oil There are no munitions senators left but if there were they would undoubtedly be protesting against any possibility of a war time em era- embargo embargo bargo on their product It is the same old fight these groups staged last session Everyone Every Every- one is interested only in his own baby But the demand for real neutrality now is so strong that the result may may- may maybe be different this time Note Senator Note Senator Frazier peace extremist is saying he would agree to include wheat and foodstuffs foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs and wheat is his product Belles Lettres The friendly notes Written by European nations at debt paying time did not include checks HOwever However How HOw- However ever the official recipients of the documents here thought they detected detected detected de de- de- de a significant glimmer of a change of poli policy y in the French note England sent just about the theS S same old letter except that she left out that paragraph about her economic conditions being so bad that she could not pay That old excuse hardly fitted in with her published economic statistics indicating indicating in indicating in- in that her production and employment r covery recovery is ahead of ours Italy's note however was exactly exactly ex ex- cx- cx the same as last year bad economic conditions and all The Italians said nothing about all that new wealth Mussolini is supposed supposed sup sup- supposed posed to have added to his empire by the conquest of Ethiopia The French however used a e. phrase hitherto avoided by the literary geniuses who have been writing their semiannual excuses They said this time France was desirous of promising only that which it will be able to perform This was a slim phrase to be sure but it seemed to promise that the next agreement would be kept Coming from France that sounded like som something thing Authorities here thought so They really expect that France will offer something not enough of course but something Compensation Democrats are never satisfied They won seats in the house housein in the last election against 88 forthe forthe for forthe the Republicans But the records of the house indicate that more contests have been filed by defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de Democrats than by the de defeated defeated defeated de- de Republicans It is not exactly clear why the many defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de Republicans appear to be satisfied while the defeated Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- are not The explanation may not be political political po po- or psychological in all the v cases cases It seems the government pays 2000 attorney fees to anyone anyone anyone any any- one filing a contest Change Another new political phenomenon phenomenon enon is the great number of people who turned out to be Democrats after election If Mr Roosevelt had received all the votes of peo pea people people pie who are now saying they were for tor him it is hard to see why he did not received more than tha 27 votes Only one man in the entire United States is reported to be swimming against this preponderant preponderant preponderant derant trend He is Frank C. C Havenner a successful candidate for congress from San Francisco He defeated Mrs Kahn after being nominated both both as as a Democrat and a Progressive under the peculiar peculiar peculiar pe pe- pe- pe culiar California law which permits permits permits per per- mits candidates to be many different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent things in the same sante election House authorities have received a letter from Mr Havenner stating stating stating stat stat- ing he prefers to be listed of officially officially of- of as a representative of the Progressive party He thus not only becomes the only Progressive in congress outside Wisconsin but the only man in the world who has left the Democratic party since November 3 Copyright 1936 for The Telegram |