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Show H NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS Written for The Telegram By Ray Tucker w- mendatlone of Its subsidiaries. The all-important appropriations committee, for instance, consists of seven antl new deal Democrate and sevsn O. O. P. partisans 14 of a total of 24. Such Influential agenciea aa the finance, banking and currency, Interstate commerce com-merce and Judiciary committees are Just aa heavily loaded with Insurgents of both parties. Moat of the Democratic chairmen are pro-Garner rather than pro-Roossvelt pro-Roossvelt "nominal Democrats.1' So here Is a preview of congressional con-gressional tactics in the coming conflict with the president: House committees; mostly conservative, will whittle down F. D. R.'s requests, re-quests, aa they did with the W P A appropriation, but their work may be undone on the floor because be-cause of the tremendous Democratic Demo-cratic majority. But when the new deal proposition gets behind the doors of a senate committee It won't recognise Itself when it comes out , WASHINGTON -Coin cldent with his nomination as a supreme court Jurist, Felix Frankfurter has been revealed In higher-up circles at Washington as leading sponsor of a movement to prevent naai domination of Germans of American descent living in the United States. It confirms completely com-pletely the theory that his selection selec-tion was designed as a dekberate slap at der fuehrer. So far the drive has simply assumed as-sumed ths form of publication of an amaslng book entitled 'The German Reich and Americans of Oerman Origin." It purports to expose speeches and orders by Hitler. Goebbels and Hess demanding de-manding that Teutons living abroad remain loyal In all things to the fatherland. Except for a warning foreword against the threat the publication simply reprints, re-prints, for the first tims in this country, document proclaiming the nasi theory of "once a German, Ger-man, alwaya a German." Professor Frankfurter trails along in good company, however, in tearing the veil from Hitler's designs on the (.000.000 German-Americana German-Americana resident in the United Steles. Other eponaors Include Samuel Seabury and Charles C Burlingham of New York (both of whom backed F. H. LaGuardia for mayor), former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Nicholas Murray Butler, ex-Senator George Wharton Pepper, Magr, John A. Ryan, Nathan Straus. ' tion concede that the danger from this source is rather remote, meaning that German-Americana will not fall for the bait Nevertheless, Never-theless, thsy believe the warning to be timely. In view of Mr. Frankfurter's current prominence In ths headlines. It could not have been timelier. Whenever a promoter at Washington Wash-ington wishes to hit the front page headlines he first pledges svsry participant or conspirator to "secrecy." He admlniatsrs a sort of college fraternity oath ao as to pique public curiosiy. That explains In a few words ths background back-ground of ths mysterious Bullitt-Kennedy Bullitt-Kennedy appearance on Capitol Hill to warn of impending war la Europe. London and Paris had no objections ob-jections to ths ambassadors' revelations of Germany's air strength and thstr own weakness In this field of combat For one thing,, It may consolidate waning support for the president's rearmament re-armament program end create an American navy and air force that will fight alongside them if another conflict breaks out in tha spring. Moreover, it may convince con-vince skeptics at home that their statesmen did not sell out cheaply at Munich that ths taJe of Hitler's Hit-ler's superiority in planes was trus. . Nor does Herr Hitler objeetr- It depicts him as ths military mastsr of Europe at a time when he Is looking longingly at ths Ukraine. It also casts a new sidelight on Lindbergh's role in reporting to Great Britain and France that Germany would easily win a major war via the air. Der fuehrer, fueh-rer, according to the Inside story,, was only too happy to let the international airman see everything every-thing there waa to see, and submit grave warning to Paris and London. The only question ths two diplomatic couriers didn't answer Is who is kidding whomT Cordsll Hull had hardly brushed the dust of Lima from his cutaway cut-away before he moved to settle the oil expropriation problem with Mexico. While in Peru he discovered that Uncle Sam's attitude atti-tude In this controversy may determine de-termine whether ths pious pan-American pan-American resolutions are worth the paper thsy are written on. In response to several inquiries from Influential sources, the secretary sec-retary of state haa said hs was willing to apply the same procedure pro-cedure to the oil difficulty that was utilized with respect to the agrarian dispute namely, arbitration. arbi-tration. Mexico City has not been notified formally of thia suggestion, sugges-tion, and Cardenas' attitude isn't known yet But since hs accepted arbitration on ths agrarian question ques-tion it is expected that he will agree in this Instance. Ths oil companies' lawyers huddled hud-dled In New York recently, and it is understood that they may submit a new proposition to the state department in a few days. Like Mr. Hull, the corporations Involved realise that a stiff necked attitude will endanger both diplomatic diplo-matic relations and private properties prop-erties down below, and they arc anxious for a peaceful settlement In view of Italo-German encroachment. en-croachment. Uncle Sam must make flrends with Mexico and South America, even if It coats somebody a few million dollars more or leas. Copyright 139, for Tht Telegram. Official documents collected by Supreme Court-Designate Frank-, furter and hia colleagues make the revelations of ths Dies committee com-mittee which President Roosevelt Roose-velt fought aeem tame and trite. They reveal a deliberate attempt to supplant allegiance to Uncle Sam by unfailing loyalty to the Hitler reioh. "We want" reads the most Illuminating Illu-minating excerpt from an official proclamation, "to bring tha Germans Ger-mans in ths United States, who in part have become alienated from the German fatherland and from ths German nation, back to ths great community of blood and fate of all Germans . . . When we have attained this goal we will organise or-ganise the Germans in order to give them, after ths completion of their spiritual regeneration, economic eco-nomic reinforcement and political schooling." The authors of this expose of German propaganda further reaching than svsn the kaiser's peacetime program of penetra- Completion of the Democrats' Inner organisation in house and aenate furnishes a tip on the strategy those "nominal Democrate" Demo-crate" will employ against tha president during the present session. ses-sion. Hs may break through their front line on the floor of the house, but they will repulse him in ths senate committee trenches. Almost every major aenate committee com-mittee has been packed against ths White House, and it Is senate tradition that the chamber shall uphold the reports and recom- |