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Show NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS I Written lor Tha Telegram By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON The Internal e warfare within the new deal Kelt Ke-lt movee Into Its seventh year haa hit a peak of unprecedented bitterness. bit-terness. The boys end girls are hardly speaking to each other when they meet In the corridors and on the streets. W P A's personnel haa been demoralised de-moralised by the failure to promote pro-mote Aubrey Williams to Harry Hopkins' place. Liberals are Incensed In-censed at the selection of Colonel Colo-nel V. C. Harrington for the W P A poet Instead of a more socially so-cially minded individual. Bob Jackson, ordinarily an urbane fellow, fel-low, haa been as gruff as a bear since the president's preference for Frank Murphy for attorney general became known. A drastio shake-up, including many resignations, resig-nations, is forecast for the D. of J. if an outsider is placed in charge. F. D. R. has antagonised key officials In the war and navy department! de-partment! by tht secrecy with which he has shrouded his national na-tional defense plans. His announcement an-nouncement that the colleges would train 10.000 fliers annually was news to both the army and navy until they read it in the headlines. More than ever before, be-fore, and regardless of personal feelings In his houaehold or on capltol hill, the president Intends to be "the boss" In a big way. ' a one-sided and biased picture of ' the industry's behavior. All they wanted eo they say was their day in court. This seemingly unimportant Incident In-cident may have volcanlo repercussions. reper-cussions. Ths glass boys have seen to It that their complaint was circulated among other industries in-dustries still to be placed on the pan. And, deaplte the threat of senatorial contempt, one of these days some alleged monopolist la going, to walk out on the committee com-mittee and haul It Into court. The" underlying reason for American failure to pry an anti-European anti-European ultimatum out of the Lima conference was economic rather than political. Several South American nations Intend to imitate Mexico in confiscating American property and therefore they were unwilling to give a preferred pre-ferred status on the western continent con-tinent to Uncle Sam. Truth is, and our diplomatic experts ex-perts realise it, that If Mexico gets away with her expropriation of oil lands other nations will try it They will seise mineral properties, utilities and other industries in-dustries in which United Statea Interests have Invested $3,000.-000.000, $3,000.-000.000, according to the private valuation 12.600,000,000, according accord-ing to Harry Hopkins' department of commerce estimates. Economt- In the army and navy air ser-vicee ser-vicee he Is asaailed as a World trouble. According to private ad-vicee ad-vicee here, Lindbergh etill functions func-tions as an A-l mechanie navl-gationlst navl-gationlst rather than a diploma! or an expert In International relations. re-lations. He has tattled in several world capitals about the air strength of prospective rivals and hs has slipped Inside information to Washington on Europe's aerial forces particularly Germany's. Ths result is that he has become an International individual and Incident. Most revealing indication of his altered status is that several national na-tional magasines (American) ara preparing articles deiigned to discredit dis-credit his more recent activities. In ths past they refuted to print stories which cast the slightest reflection on him. Now the young man appears to be fair game for cabinet members, tht British parliament par-liament and magazine editors. Harold Ickta haa Just lost another an-other Job, although there waa no announcement in the newspapers. He has spent or allocated every nickel of his last P W A appropriation, appro-priation, and hs is no longer the public works pooh bah. Even for him, Mr. Ickta dished out the 1990,000.000 he doesn't know the exact figure himself With InoMdlhl. mnA U71l.l i The O'Mahoney committee's conduct of the Inquiry into the glass Industry's patent practices has given the shivers to prospective prospec-tive victims of the antimonopo-lists' antimonopo-lists' curiosity. It threatens to dissipate the cooperative spirit which the chairman sought to inspire in-spire among business men and industrialists before the hearings opened. The glass ptople realise that they live and operate In a fairly vulnerable house one at which atones can be thrown. They don't object to official evidence portraying por-traying them as exercising a rigid control over their patents. But they do kick because they were not permitted to cross-examine ths government's witneaset, or to place their aids of ths case on the record. They contend that the committee deliberately presented rally, at least. South America intends in-tends to cut loose from the Colossus Co-lossus of the North. The exlstsnce of such a sentiment senti-ment was a devastating disillusionment disillu-sionment to our delegation to the .Ltraa .conference. That's why they , lugged out Alt Landon to say that, regardless of party affiliations, af-filiations, Americans were united In resenting European Inroads over here. But It didn't work. The Latins Just don't llks us and they never will. To them we're a strange people. Yesterday's International hero Charlea A. Lindbergh has become be-come a man without a country. The Ickea attack oa him for accepting ac-cepting a Hitler medal was only a public rehearsal of what key figures in the government are saying about the first man to fly ths Atlantic. months after congress appropriated appropri-ated the money be approved several sev-eral thousand blueprints, arranged ar-ranged for the financing and handed out the cash. It Is doubtful doubt-ful if the same amount of money has ever been distributed by a government or a private corporation corpora-tion In such a short time, barring, of course, war emergtneiet. The purposs is obvious. It will be three months perhaps April before these funds will begin to make the factory wheels go 'round and furnish employment in tht heavy industries. Mr. Ickes tossed out ths money so that it would impress congress In ths midst of the next session. If it does put men to work and placate the politics, po-litics, he may get another helping despite Garner -Byrd - Harrison cries for federal economy. . 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