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The Tire Palestme Palestine Palestmequestwn Palestinequestion Palestinequestion questwn question creates a new dl- dl di- di dluslOn division di division - - vision u-slOn u slOn - in the ranks of New NewDealers NewDealers NeivDealers Dealers , , involving mvolvmg Secre Secretary Secretary Secretary tary Hull . . Wallace In Inbattle inbattle irebattle battle to save his Ius programWASHINGTON program programWASHINGTON WASHINGTONA WASHINGTON -A A - A convention Sit Situtlon situition situilion u\tlon u tlon uition utlonhich ' \ \ which \\hich hich \ would compel compe1 Pres1 Presi Pres1dent President Prcsident dent Roosevelt Roose\elt Roose elt \ to fight for another anothernommatlon anothernomination anothernomination nommatlon nomination to prevent the nammg naming nammgof namingof namingof Clark Clarkwho Clarkwho darkwho of a man Bennett Champ who has opposed the White Wrute House on onsuch onsuch oniuch such outstanding outstandmg issues as the Su Supreme Supreme Supreme preme court bill the government re reorgamzation reorganization orgamzabon orgamzation bill and neutrality neutrallty leg legislation legislation lslatIon islation is considered very likely l1kely by bymany bymany bymany many shrewd poll political tical observers observershere observershere observershere observershereThe here hereThe The Missouri senator is in a very verystrong verystrong verystrong strong position HeIon He \Ion Ion w \ on his renomi renominatIon renomination renomi- renomi renomination - , nation by an over overs overwhelming r maJorityr fV overfV s Ii ] whelmmg maJority majoritySix y ySix SIX years ago he de det dea defied t a " \ . fied fled the utmost ef of offorts efforts forts of Boss Pendergast Pen ; dergast s K a n s a SC s , . C , , C ty machine maclune andt and andIf t/ t twon / # ' . 't t : ' 'twon i vvon won easily In No't November No , " 't- 't t ' - 'tvember " " " ' recoidiWi I-SII I SII - vember "ber ber " a recoid record recordmajonty recoidjy iWi , . : # , , /jy jy / majority majonty is prom * ' . ' ised for him With.a with ' \ 4 . 4ised .a a . .asuch . ' such normally Republican Re Republican publican ne\\spa ne spa newspa nespaSenator newspaSenator newspaSenator \ Senator Clarkpers Clarkpars dark Clark pers pars as the Kansas KansasCity KansasCity KansasCity City Star preferring prcferrmg him to the G Go G0 o 0 P nommeeAs nommeeAs nominee nommee nomineeAs As long ago as last winter wmier Sell Sen Sen.Burton SenBurton . . Burton K Wheeler of Montana pre predlcted predieted predieted dlcted dieted the ( he probabil probab ty of dark Clark s snominatIon snomination snomination nominatIon if 11 Roosevelt Roose\elt Roose elt \ should fall fail fallto failto failto to score heavily in m his rus purge battle battleClark battleClark battledark ( Clark was one of the tile nine mne Demo DemocratIc Democratic Democratic cratIc senators who opposed the thePresident thePresident thePresident President on the court issue who whocame whocame whocame came cameIP \ up \IP IP for renommation renominatIOn this year yearand yearand yearand and every one of them won ) and andprovIded andprovided andprovided provIded also that the President did didnot didnot didnot not take the nomination nommatlon himselfNot himselfNot himself himselfNot Not that Wheeler LVheelcr and dark Clark al alI always always \I I \ ways ays agree on issues or could besaid be beaid said ; aid ald to belong to the same fact on onFar onFar onFar Far from it It would be rather ratherdifficult ratherdifficult ratherdifficult difficult to classify dark Clark man m in any any ) fac fact fact fact t on He is found voting votmg and oratmg orating oratmgWith oratingwith oratingwith With one group today and another anothernext anothernext anothernext next nexteek \ week \\eek eek But as Wheeler po nted ntedout ntedout ntedout out outhen \ when \\hen hen he made that year old pre prediction prediction prediction diction ever everybody ) body 1Ices 1 I kes dark Clark Cer Car Certamly Cartannly Certainly tamly tannly he has few important Jl11portant enemles enenines ene eneLeft mles nines ninesLeft Left Wing Wrng ' Aeic l'Iew lIew Aew Dealers DealersWant DealersWant Want ' Ao l'Io lIo Part of ClarkHIS ClarkHis dark Clark darkHis His nominaton nominal nommat on howeer howeter howev howe\ howe \ er would wouldbe wouldbe wouldbe be regarded as 1ltt1 little-less little less httleless & - less than tragic tragicby tragicby tragicby by the left wingers wmgers ) in n the New DeaL DeaLHe DeaLHe DeaLHe He does not sympathize smpathlZe ) with their theirobjectives theirobjectives theirobjectives objectives at all For example he heJS heis heis JS is strongly against agamst any proposal proposalwruch proposalwhich proposalwhich wruch which would further enlarge the thepoers thepowers thepowers po\\ers po ers powers \ of the White House He is areactIOnary areactionary a areactionary reactionary to most New Dealers Dealersand Dealersand Dealersand and a I 1 beral to most conserva conservat t ves yes vesThere yesThere There v . would ould be a lot of poetIc poetIcJustice poeticjustice poeticjustice Justice in m the story if he should be benommated benominated benominated nommated nominated and elected President PresidentBack PresidentBack PresidentBack Back in m the early davs days da ) s of the cen century century century tury practically allllberais all liberals and pro progresslves progressives progressives gresslves gressives were clamoring clamormg for the dl di dlrect direct direct rect primary prlIDary for the nomination nommatlon of ofsenators ofsenators ofsenators senators governors and presidents presidentsThe presidentsThe presidentsThe The first convention affected by the thepreferential thepreferential thepreferential preferential presidential primary primarywas primarywas primarywas was that of 1912 Senator dark Clark s sfather sfather sfather father Champ dark Cla.rk Clark . then speaker speakerof of the tl1e house of representatives ran ranin ranin ranin in a lot of primaries prilDal1eS He won al almost almost almost most everywhere e\erywhere e erywhere \ Notably be he de defeated defeated defeated feated Woodrow Wilson m in a series seriesof seriesof seriesof of clashes for popular approvalThe approvalThe approval approvalThe The conservatives had not taken takenthe takenthe takenthe the primary Idea seriously For mstance m mstance mstance stance in m New Jersey the bosses bosseshad bosseshad bosseshad had not even bothered to enti-r enti r enll.r enllr enter - . theIr theIrchOice theirchoice theirchoice chOice so it wasIon was \ won \Ion Ion by James JamesE E Marline Martme by a small vote de despite despite despite spite Martme Martine s utter lack of politi polite political politecal political cal strength The bosses had no nothought nothought nothought thought of paying paymg any attent on to tothe tothe tothe the primary and directed the legis legislature legislature legislature lature to name someone else But But14oodrow But'ttoodrow Butttoodrow 14oodrow , ' \ oodrow Wilson then governor governormade governormade governormade made the people s choice by prl pri prlmary primary pnmary mary an issue and forced the elec electlon election election tlon tion of Martme Martine to the senatehich senate \\hich hich Vhich Vhichincidentally \ Vlhichincidentally hichmCldentally mCldentally incidentally he came to regret laterBut laterBut later laterBut But at the Baltimore convention It ItI itwas itwas was \I I \ as a different story The llberals liberals llberalsand liberalsand liberalsand and progressives fought Champ ChampClark ChampClark Champdark Clark the people s choice tooth and andnail andnail andnail nail although he had a clear ma maJor major major Jor ty of the delegates on ballot after afterballot afterballot afterballot ballot William Jenmngs Jennmgs Dryan Bryan Dryanfinally Bryanfinally Bryanfinally finally turned the t de to Wilson Wilsonmakmg Wilsonmaking Wilsonmaking makmg making the runner up hi in the pri primanes primanes primanes manes the victor at the convention conventionM M ssoun ssouri now thinks thmks the wrong wrongmay wrongmay wrongmay may be r ghted 28 years laterAew later laterAew ' Aew l'Iew lIew Division in l'Iew lIew Aety l'IewDeal AetyDeal ' AewDeal Deal Rani s Involves HullA Hull HullA A new ne\t ne t \ and interesting mtcrestmg division dlvlsion has hasoccurred hasoccurred hasoccurred occurred In ill New Deal ranks m in mWashu inWasher inWashuglon Washu Washer glon gton and tor for the first time timethere timethere timethere there is the poss bility that Secre Secretary Secretary Secretary tary of State Cordell Hull may be bemvolved beinvolved beinvolved mvolved involved in m a real factional dIspute dIsputeTh disputeTh disputeTh Th s dispute may involve mvolve Hull be because because because cause it is directly concerned WIth WIthforeign withforeign withforeign foreign policy pollcy One group thinksthat thinks thinksthat thinksthat that the United States should takefirm take a afirm afirm firm stand against religious and racial ra racial racial cial persecution persecullon , , , as it considers it it , , and nd should back up Great Britain BritainIn BritainIn In Palestine Palestme but Insists and there therecomes therecomes therecomes comes the real point pomt of differencethat difference differencethat differencethat that Britain should hold Palestine Palestme I a adoor Idoor idoor door open to immigration of perse persecuted persecuted persecuted cuted Jews from trom EuropeThere EuropeThere Europe EuropeThere There was not enough d difference ference to tobe tobe tobe be noticeable on this thLs Palestine Palestme question ques question question tion until rumors came that BrltalIl Britain BrltalIlwas Britainwas Britainwas was about to make peace with the theArabs theArabs theArabs Arabs on the pledgo pledge that no further furtherJeWIsh furtherJewish furtherJewish JeWIsh immlgra.tlon immlgratlon immigration . would be permatted per permltted pernutted mltted matted Then there were quick re repercussions repercussions percussIOns from surprisingly surpnslngly widely wide widely widely ly separated groups In this countryNow countryNow country countryNow Now it so happens that the onecriticism one onecritIcism onecriticism critIcism which wruch the left wing ele element element element ment of the New Deal has beenmaking been beenmaking beenmaking making ot of Secretary Hull has to do doin doin doin in part , , , with a question of British Britishforeign Britishforeign Britishforeign foreign policy It has concerned the theSpawsh theSpamsh theSpanish Spawsh Spamsh civil CIVll war with the left wmg wing wingers wmgers wingers ers insisting inslstmg that the so called neu neutrality neutrality ncutrality trality policy pollcy of embargo againstbelligerents agamst against agamstbelligerents againstbelligerents belligerents actually helped Franco Francoand Francoand Francoand and hurt the LoyalistsHit Loyalists Loyallsts LoyalistsHit Hit Hull Ilull Over Shoulders ShouldersOf ShouldersOf Of 0 f So Called Career BoysBearing Boys ' Bearing Bearmg m in mind " what "hat hat wliat has happened hap happened happened pened to everyone who fought Hull Hullin Hullin Hullin in this administration admmlstratlon notably notablyGeorge notablyGeorge notablyGeorge George Peek and Ray Moley left leftwmgers leftwingers leftwingers wmgers wingers were a httle l1ttIe little loath to st ck cktheir cktheir cktheir their necks out So they Uley IIlvanably invariably IIlvanablyattempted invariablyattempted invariablyattempted attempted to fasten all the blame blameon blameon blameon on Sumner Welles the under see sec seeretary secretary secretary ! , retary of state and the so calledcareer calledcareer called calledcareer career boys in the department of ofstate ofstate ofstate state especially as it has always alwaysseemed alwaysseemed alwaysseemed seemed comparatively easy to en enrage enrage enrage rage the public pubic against agamst the spattedteacup spatted spattedteacup spattedeacup teacup balancers . who v.ho vho ape the theBrltIsh theBritish theBritish BrltIsh British both in accent and elothes clothes elothesetc clothesetc clothesetc etc Actually theytere they \ v/ere v ere \tere tere were / hitting hlttmg at atHull atHull atHull Hull over the career boys shoul shoulders shoulders shoulders shouldersThe ders dersThe The campaign nevertheless has hasbeen hasbeen hasbeen been carried carncd on persistently the left leftwmgers leftwingers leftwingers wmgers wingers leaking leakmg allegedly allcgedly mter inter interestmg mterestmg interestmg estmg incidents mCldents of how the wool woolwas woolwas woolwas was being bemg pulled over Hull s eyes totheir to totheIr totheir theIr favorite favonte newspaper wnters writers wntersand writersand writersand and always with S r Ronald Lmd Lmdsay Lmdsay Lmdsay say the British ambassador as the thema thema thema ma ter mind in the strategy andthe and andthe andthe the teacup balancers the eager eagerstooges eagerstooges eagerstooges eagerstoogesBe stooges stoogesBe Be that as it may the left wmgers wingers wmgershave wingershave wingershave have reinforcements remforcements in m their deter determ determ determ m nation to force Cordell Hull shand s shand shand hand and to insist mSlst tha that t the handsacross hands handsacross handsacross across the sea business busmess with Eng England England England land must come to an Immedia immediate immediateend immediateend te teend end unless Britain goes down the theIme theline theline Ime line for the creating creatmg of a political politicalrefuge politicalrefuge politicalrefuge refuge m In Palestine Palestme for all of Europe Eu Europe Europe rope s per peroccuted > ecuted Jews JewsSecretary J Jew e\\ e es \ s sSecretary Secretary Wallace Fights FightsTo FightsTo FightsTo To Save His IllS 11is 11 is Farm ProgramSecretary ProgramSecretary Program ProgramSecretary Secretary of Agriculture Agnculture Henry A AWallace AWallace AWallace Wallace is not only battling battlmg to savehis save savehis savehis his farm program in his rus stumpmg stumping stumpmgtour stumpingtour stumpingtour tour to persuade the M ddle Western Westernfarmers Westernfarmers Westernfarmers farmers that AAA is finp fine and everythmg everything every ; thing thmg will be all right fIght when controlled con controlled controlled trolled production really gets mto into mtooperatIon intooperation intooperation operatIon he is fighting fightmg to make It Itpossible itpossible itpossible possible for some New Dealer towin to towm towin wm win the presidency next time tilDe wIth wIthout without without out the third term handicapCareful handicapCareful handicap handicapCareful Careful study of the election situ situatIon situation situalion atIon by experts forces the conclu conclusion conclusion conclusion sion that unless Wallace can Vlndl vindi Vlndlcate vindisate vmdicate cate sate himself hilDself and his farm program programit It will be absolutely necessary forPresident for forPresident torPresident President Roosevelt to take a tlurd third tlurdnommatlOnunless thirdnominationunless thirdnomination nommatlOn-unless nommatlOn unless nomination-unless nomination - unless he s willing willmg to |