| Show Roosevelt Ends Decade in i n Saddle Center e eBy of t Term Question By Dy D D. D HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON March 3 UP President UP-President President Roosevelt completes com corn 10 eventful years of peace and war in White the House Wednesday in much the same uncertain position n r regarding garding a fourth term as that of four years yeas ago when a third te term with its ts tradition tradition shattering shattering implications bons was the big political question question ques- ques I tion markI mark I dont don't believe anybody Including In Including including in- in the president himself can foretell now about 1944 1944 one veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran Democratic party spokesMan said Then making plain he was only surmising since the president had lad not spoken to him on the matter matter mat mat- ter ter he observed If U the war is ov over r or over by the time the conventions roll around I dont don't believe you could tow the president into another another another an an- other term with an ox chain He then went on to say that the president resident is In the same position today oday regarding his political future as he was was four years ago If he feels hes he's got to go ahead he will If It there is any way he can decently duck it I think hell he'll do doso so Hell He'll look for lor any ny out he can can He further qualified that st state statement te ment meat later but not until after he had noted the parallel between present day political factors and those hose of ot March 1939 when third term talk began to buzz i Odds With Congress i At the midway point between his second and third term the president was at odds with congress congress congress con con- gress over appropriations and nominations just as he is today today- with some additions now traceable to the war Efforts we were e being made nade then as now to bring the White House and Capitol Hill closer together The presidents president's problems of ot four years ago have since increased b because cause of ot the reduced re reduced reduced re- re Democratic majorities In congress and the heaping of ot actual war problems onto those o of the shaky peace period There was third anti-third term talk then among among- the new anti deal Democrats and third party threats Today the no fourth term movement has been launched quietly and third party gestures are coming from two fronts fronts fronts-by by some tome southern Democrats contingent contingent con- con on Roosevelt's becoming a candidate and by American labor party officials in New York provided provided pro pro- pro pro-j vided both major parties nominate nominate conservative candidates With the presidential nominating ing ng conventions about 16 m months away Republicans openly penly predict I their party will win the presidency I and congress The They 1 Ii e y say the I trend shown In their ther victories In n the last two year off elections will gather impetus and swamp the he Democrats next year On the other hand Democratic spokesmen declare the president still is popular with with the masses even though the machine politician politician poli- poli ician may have cooled toward him ilm because of patronage troubles They also point to the fact that the the he Democrats picked up a net of seven house seats in the 1940 presidential residential election following a Republican net gain of 80 in 1938 and say the G GOP 0 P gain gam of 45 in 1942 could be turned into a loss next year No More Glory The party spokesman who expressed expressed ex ex- pressed the belief belie that Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt would want to step out of the presidency if the war is over orthe or orthe the Jie end is in sight by next summer summer summer sum sum- mer advanced these arguments For on one thing theres there's no more more glory lory or Incentive there Hes He's had i three terms of ot headaches The strain of this thing must be stupendous stu stu- It must tell on him even of ot he doesn't show it Another thing the president will be 62 at convention time and 63 53 when another presidential term begins and I have an idea he would like to do his memoirs and such and let somebody else face the difficulties of the postwar period This sources source's views on on- on the latter particular dovetailed with those of ot another mother who said he recently broached the fourth term question openly to the president Representative Representative Sabath D D. Ill chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the house rules committee told reporters that the chief executive executive executive tive indicated to him that when It comes to drawing up the program for world peace he felt that others were capable of that work but that he hoped he might be able to have a part in framing the peace outside the White House |
