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Show NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS . . Written lor The. Telegram By Ray Tucker. . WASHINGTON President Roosevelt's postwar peace formula formu-la Is taking tangible form behind be-hind the doors of the interdepartmental inter-departmental agency of experts he has designated to coordinate America's contribution. The underlying un-derlying scheme is to Insure that the United States, as Messrs. Hull, Berle and Wallace have hinted, should have a major voice at the coming world conference. con-ference. Generally, the plan Is to dangle dan-gle such liberal offers of American Amer-ican aid In any world reorganization reorgan-ization that the belligerents would not deny us a seat even though this country takes no active part in the conflict The first contribution, although not the most spectacular, would be opening our markets to foreign nations through such means as reciprocal trade agreements. The second would be redistribution redistribu-tion of our vast store of gold so as to stimulate these purchases. It will be difficult to sell this Idea to congress, but It would hardly prove any costlier than our policy of buying the metal at an artificially inflated value. The third proposition would be the establishment of a world bank along the lines of the Pan-American Pan-American Institution recently created to finance commerce among the western republics. That agency was hurriedly flung Into existence so that it would stand as an example to Europe of the assistance which might be forthcoming from this continent con-tinent Washington In particular. particu-lar. In 1919, when world problems prob-lems were seen as chiefly political. po-litical. Wood row Wilson created the abortive League of Nations as a peacemaking power. Next time, since the difficulties are 1 principally economic, the United ' States will kick through with offers of-fers of trade, gold and a bank. The state department's publication publi-cation of the Lansing diplomatic papers and of the Foch-Per-shing demand for a march on Berlin ties in with the Rooae-velt-Hull-Taylor parleys with the pope. It supplies sn indication of the kind of peace Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt will support. French Wsr Premier Clemen-ceau Clemen-ceau was mainly responsible for a Versailles treaty which permitted per-mitted Germany to revive and rearm. For years, as a Paris politician, he had hated and fought two dominant influences in French politics the army and the Catholic church because he regarded them as antldeimx cratic. Therefore, mixed motives Inspired him In making the 1919 peace. He opposed onion of Austria Aus-tria and Hungary, establishment of a powerful Poland and separation separa-tion of southern German states from Berlin for fear they would become strong Catholic countries. coun-tries. He preferred a reunited Germany to such an alternative. Likewise he would not permit Generals Foch, Pershing or Man-gin Man-gin to Invade the reich. The result re-sult wss a Germany that was not ringed by strong and hostile nations na-tions or supervised by suspicious soldiery. That policy made it less difficult for Hitler to reoc-cupy reoc-cupy the Rhineland, to destroy Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. England contributed by aggrandizing Germany out of suspicion of the French military expansion. v Today's neutrals want no occupation oc-cupation or destruction of Germany, Ger-many, realizing it would sow seeds of another conflict But they apparently seek a European reorganization that will ring the reich with foes able to make her behave. The department of Justice's contrasting treatment of three congressional committees the Dies, the N L R B investigators and the La Follette Civil Liberties Lib-erties sleuths accounts for the slash In the appropriations tor Attorney General Jackson's force of special attorneys and legal experts. - For years the department's staff of special assistants has increased in-creased until It Is now fourfold the size It was when the present administration took office. It has been a comparatively secret and lucrative cache for patronage. Despite Its swollen proportions, the D. of J. hss been unable to supply lawyers or investigators to the antinew dealish Dies or NLRB committees. Mesnwhile, it was discovered that a legalite paid from 'departmental funds has been serving as chief counsel coun-sel in the La Follette committee's Investigation of the Associated Farmers In California. Topnotch Republicans here are making a quiet attempt to stave off the movement for recall re-call of Governor Culbert L. Olson of California, although he was elected as a new dealer with strong leftist tendencies. At a recent breakfast here they concluded con-cluded thst he is a greater asset as-set to the G. O. P. In office than out of It When Governor Olson failed to go down the line for the "ham and eggers" In last fall's election, elec-tion, his erstwhile supporters began be-gan to circulate petitions for his recall. Ordinarily, conservative Republicans would be among the first to sign, and some have done so. But state strategists among . the Republicans, as well as several sev-eral nation leaders they have consulted, figure thst,' in the event of his ousting, the Democrats Demo-crats might elect a more conservative con-servative man or a middle-of-the-roader satisfactory to both the currently antagonistic wings. Mr. Olson's present term does not expire until January 1, 1943, lasting through the national and the next state elections. So the Republicans scheme to keep him In office in the hope that his past and future record may drive all the discontented Democrats and Republicans into their ranks. Charley West's appointment to an office nobody ever beard of head of the federal processing tax board may now be explained ex-plained more completely. It was originally planned that he run for the house in the special spe-cial election In the seventeenth Ohio district which wss won by Republican Candidate J. Harry McGregor. But Democratic scouts warned of a possible G. O. P. triumph In advance. They also pointed out thst it would be damaging to F. D. R 's 1940 plana If his erstwhile personal favorite, fa-vorite, congressional emissary and former undersecretary of the treasury took a licking In this weathervane district So he didn't! |