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Show I NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS I i Written for The Telegram By Ray Tucker 1 ' nation for the letter's demand that F. D. R. declare his 1940 intentions now. Th Kansan quickly discovered, discov-ered, one he got inside the executive ex-ecutive offices, that he was expected ex-pected to be seen and not heard. Mr. Roosevelt never asked him for his opinion on th wisdom of th policies which th chief executive outlined to his listenersmost listen-ersmost of whom were men known beforehand to favor almost al-most anything the administration administra-tion wanted. (And that included includ-ed Colonel Frank Knox, th other "titular leader" of the G. O. P.) At one point in th discussion Senate Leader Bark-ley Bark-ley turned to Mr. Landon and asked what he thought, but F. D. R. resumed before the man from Kansas, a slow talker, had a rhanc to open his lips. Mr. "Landon, naturally, concluded con-cluded that he was wanted simply sim-ply as "window-dressing." Even more seriously, he thought he detected a slight violation of F. D. RVs plea for a "political truce" in the fare of the crisis. So and his friends don't deny It he popped the third-term query in an effort to discover for himself and th nation what there was to all this talk about nonpartisanship. The government's unemployment unemploy-ment experts hardly dare publicize pub-licize their hopes, but they forecast fore-cast privately a drop in the number num-ber of the jobless to almost 6.000.000 by New Year's. Except for a brief period during peak production In 1937, that would be the lowest figure since Hoover dsvs. Highest was about 13.000.000. Industries counted on to send out the first calls for both skilled and unskilled workers are railroads, steel, coal, textiles, foods, processors and shipping. As predicted, there already Is a shortsge of trained men and women In some lines. The upswing has manifested Itself In several ways pleasing to the polittcos and officials here. The Job-hunters made fewer demands on members of congress during the recent summer sum-mer than at any time sine th depth of the depression. De-spit De-spit sharp cuts in WPA rolls, th riots and political protests supposed to result from layoff have not materialized. And best news of all only a small percentage of th reemployment has been du to th war abroad. It looks to th insiders as if, after a decad of downward spirallng. th nation's natural recuperative forces were beginning begin-ning to operate. Copyright McClure Syndicate. WASHINGTON Concealed In several- cryptic presidential utterances diplomatic experts foresee eventual extension of the Monroe doctrine over thousands thou-sands of miles of Atlantic and Pacific waters as well as actual territory in the western hemisphere. hemi-sphere. It would be th logical corollary to enactment of any cash-and-carry scheme for American wartime exports. Characteristically. Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt handed out these hints in a bantering and facetious manner. man-ner. First h hazarded th suggestion sug-gestion that our territorial waters wa-ters extended as far as our national na-tional Interests demanded. Then he publicized th fact that foreign for-eign subs had been sighted off the Nova Scotian and Alaskan-coasts. Alaskan-coasts. Th latter remark generated gen-erated mors public excitement than It warranted, for any belligerent bel-ligerent submarines may enter our ports to discharge cargoes or refuel If they wish to take the chance. Mr. Roosevelt was simply sim-ply tipping them off that he didn't want them around this continent. Putting the twe ideas together. togeth-er. It means that the White Hous dreads th prospect of naval engagements, torpedolngs and sea raids In western waters. Th danger is quit possible If, under any cash-and-carry system, sys-tem, the tiles' ships are attacked at-tacked on our doorstep by enemy underwater boats. American shipping, coastal and otherwise, and even our shore cities and towns, might then fall within the area of combat. Legal and sentimental barriers against our involvement might coliaps. You must now get out your map to comprehend th grandiose grandi-ose and revolutionary change in our historic policy contemplated by administration Insiders snd under actual discussion by state department experts. You must also remember that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt has proclaimed the need of safeguarding Canada from domination dom-ination by any empire except the British that th Panama conference con-ference is framing a national defense de-fense program for this continent. conti-nent. To include th oceanic stretches where our national Interests are Involved under these theories, th new Monroe doctrine boundary line would begin at Cape Farewell st the southern extremity of Greenland. Green-land. Thence it would run southward south-ward outside the Caribbean area, continue to St. Paul island off the coast of Brazil, sweep around Cape Horn and westward to the Samoan islands. From there it would swing northward either to th Hawaiian or Midway " island farther east, and northward north-ward again to Alaska. Those waters would be "clpsed" to all belligerents, and naval operations opera-tions Inside the line would be held Inimical to American Interests. Inter-ests. Some diplomatic students her believe that such a proclamation would be respected by th warring war-ring nations. Others scoff at that idea, figuring that on side or the other would feel it jeopardized jeop-ardized and restricted them. F. D. R. probably will seek an opportune moment to obtain agreement through private negotiations. ne-gotiations. If one or the other objects, and If he then Insists on this policy, it will necessitat the construction of a two-ocean navy, air and naval bases, costing cost-ing several billions of dollars. It would b insurance against foreign for-eign aggrandizement here, no matter which side wins. Th mystery surrounding the "Mr. Otto" messages from abroad beseeching German-Americans German-Americans to oppose th munitions muni-tions embargo repeal remains as deep as the whereabouts of the Bremen. Administration tipsters who peddled the sensational news to favorite correspondents now refus to talk about their coup. The story, whispered around Washington, was that this government gov-ernment hed Intercepted rsdio messages from Germany designed de-signed to block favorable congressional con-gressional action on F. D. R.'s neutrality program. Certain officials offi-cials here chortled over exposure ex-posure ofthe "plot." They denounced de-nounced it as a flagrant breach of neutrality, compared It to th Zimmerman . note proposing propos-ing Mexican invasion of the United States In 1917, predicted it would blow the Isolationists "skyhigh." The inside appears to be that Ambassador Kennedy actually discovered th conspiracy, presumably pre-sumably with some help from the British Intelligence. Moreover, More-over, legal authorities do not regard such action as a breach of neutrality. For one thing, there Is still sharp disagreement disagree-ment on Capitol hill as to whether wheth-er the president or the isolationists isola-tionists have advanced the wiser neutrality program. Perhaps congress will decide that "Mr. Otto" was right that neutrality lies In retaining the embargo. Chief significance is the revelation reve-lation that Berlin's understanding understand-ing of American psychology is no better than It was in 1917. President Roosevelt's unhappy handling of Alt Landon at th White Hous neutrality conference confer-ence furnishes a possible expla- |