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Show NA NATIONAL TIONAL TIONALAFFAIRS NATIONALAFFAIRS NATIONALAFFAIRSReviewed AFFAIRS AFFAIRSRevIewed Reviewed by byCARTER byCARTER byCARTER CARTER FIELDFarley's FIELD FIELDParley's Parley's Parleys Farley's Farleys ' candidacy cand&dacy canddacy & asviewed as Iviewed vl viewed wed from . his Jus personal personalangle personalangle angle . . . Congressional Congresswnal Congresswnalm Congressionalan in inquiries m- m an- an mqUlrzes anquiries - quiries qUlrzes into mlo info sales of planes planesto to allies allws elites really reallyummportant reallyunimportant unimportant ummportant unimportantBell - ( Bell Ben Ecu Syndlcate-WNU Syndlcate WNU Synd2cteW Syndicate - WNU Service ) WASIllNGTONJames WASHINGTONJames WASHINGTON WASIllNGTON -James James - James A Far Farley FarIcy Farley ley Icy is threatening to become a sym syrn symbol syrnboli symboL bol boli Not that Jun Jim wants to be a asymbol asymboL isymbol symbol . Far from it It . . Jim Jun wants wantsto wantSto wantsto to be nominated nommated for ( or President by bythe bythe bythe the Democratic : party be he has served servedso so faithfully and so successfully successfullyOr Or fa failing 1I1g that to be nominatedfor nominated ] tor for vice president presidentJim . . Jim thinks thmks he could win wm Frank Frank1m Franktin Frank1m 1m tin D Roosevelt a little httle older than thanhis thanhis thanbis his postmaster general general gen _ , ? , , . , ? eral doesn t thinkso thinkso think JpT " 3so so Not that thePresident the y yPresident \ \ > ) - \President President \ President W would 0 u 1 I d - : like to see Farleyas Parley Farley as his successoranyhow successoranyhow successor , % | _ 5 % fXas anyhow He doesnot doesnot does ' jj ; inot , not believe thatFarley that / v * / / < Parley Farley Finley is a really reallyenthusiastIc reallyenthusiastic # i ' enthusiastIc New NewDealer NewDealer NewDealer NewDealerParley Dealer . DealerFarley ' 4d 4dFarley Parley Farley is in m dan danger danger danger ger of becom ng a asymbol asymbol asymbol symbol because the James A Astrong Astrong Astrong strong probab llty lIty rarley Farley parleyis rarleyIS Farleyis IS that he will mIl notbe notbe not notbe be nominated nomrnated either for Pres1dent President Presidentor Pres1dentor or vice Vlce president and that a great greatmany greatmany greatmany many enthusiastic enthuolasbc enthuiastic Farley Fancy men wIII will wIIIbe willbe willbe be saying saymg for the next few years yearsthat yearsthat yearsthat that Parley Farley was not nominated nommated be because beCause because cause of religious prejud ce cc ceHistory ccHistory ceHistory History has a way of repeatmg repeating repeatmg1tself repeatingitself repeatingitself 1tself itself In 1924 the Democrat c par party party party ty tore itself 1tself to pieces at Mad1son Madison Mad1sonSquare MadisonSquare MadisonSquare Square Garden over the religIousIssue religiousissue religious religiousIT Issue IssueIT IT MIGHT 1\IIGHT 1 IIGHT \ HAPPEN HAPPENIn In the summer of 1926 ' the wrIter wrIterwas writerwas writerwas was talking talkrng to an old friend fnend whohappened who whohappened whohappened happened to be one of W William ham G GMcAdoo GMcAdoo GMcAdoo McAdoo s 5 lieutenantsWe lieutenantsWe lieutenants lieutenantsWe We 11 not only nominate nommate the chief chiefwe chiefwe chiefwe we will MIl elect him hun hurt two years hence hencehe hencehe hencebe he said saidWhat What s a the use of talking talkmg hke like hkethat likethat likethat that with all the hate you stirred stirredup stirredup stirredup up st lit at Madison Square Garden7 Garden ? I Iretorted Iretorted Iretorted retorted You saw hates there therethat therethat therethat that had been engendered at Balh Balti Balhmore Baltimore Baltimore more 12 years earlier earher and this thispresent thispresent thispresent present one has religion in m it You Youwon Youwon Youwon won t get rid of it for a long tune time tuneso timeso timeso so you can t win wm for a long timeThe timeThe time timeThe The McAdoo man stared of off ! ln in lnthe inthe inthe the d stance tor for a period of minutes mmutes minutesI mmutesI I think you are right he finally finallysaId finallysaid finallysaid saId I guess the best thing thmg to todo todo todo do would be to nominate Al AI Smithnext Smith Smithnext Smithnext next time tlme He Re U 11 take a terrIble terrIblelIcking terriblelicking terriblelicking lIcking Then we can nom nate one oneof oneof oneof of our fellows fel10ws m ill in 1932 and he W1Il will W1Ilwalkm willwalk willwalk walkm walk inThe m in mThe walkmThe The point pomt of all this is that Farley Farleyis IS still stll1 very young If they do throw throwhun throwhim throwhim hun him downstairs at Chicago Ch1cago which whichseems whichseems whichseems seems probable they may have to toturn toturn toturn turn to him hun ham in rn 1944 Stranger thmgs things thmgshave thingshave thingshave have happened I IT ITS S REALLY UNIMPORTANTDemitasse UNniPORTANT UNI1IPORTANT UNIMPORTANT UNniPORTANTDemitasse Demitasse Dem1tasse storms is the proper properI properdeocrIptlon properdecniption properdescription I deocrIptlon decniption of the congressional m in mqUlrIes inquinies inquines qUlrIes quinies into mto the selling seIlmg of aIrplanes aIrplanesmade airplanesmade airplanesmade made in m the United Umted States to the theallies theallies theallies allies The notion that th Ui s govern government government government ment is being berng betrayed-Is betrayed Is betrayed - is gIvmg giving gIvmgvaluable givingvaluable givingvaluable valuable military mlhtary secrets to pOSSI pOSSIble possible possible ble enemies enemieS-IS enemieS IS - is just too absurd forwords forwordsThe for forwords forwords words wordsThe The most partisan ot of PresIdent PresIdentRoosevelt PresidentRoosevelt PresidentRoosevelt Roosevelt s opponents must admIt admItthat admitthat admitthat that little evidence can be brought broughtagarnst broughtagainst broughtagainst agarnst against the Presidents PresIdent s contention contentionthat contentionthat contentionthat that that , , , it If this country is to bu build d up a aformidable aformidable aformidable formidable aircraft production It Itmust itmust itmust must be permitted to produce all air airplanes airplanes " planes good enough so that the al alhes allies allies hes lies will buy them I ' ' It can not be denied derned demed of course coursethat Coursethat coursethat that the administration admmistratlon is not d1s dis d1spleased displeased displeased pleased over the fact that that , , , under underour underour underour our amended neutrality neutrahty law all the thebenefit thebenefit thebenefit benefit goes to the allies We will willsell willsell willsell sell planes or munit mumt ons ens or ships shipsto shipsto shipsto to any belligerent if It that bellIgerent belligerentw belligerentv w v U 11 come and get them paymg paying paymgcash payingcash payingcash cash The fact that only the allies alliescan alliescan alliescan can come and get them is 1S us a forro fortu forronate fortunate fortunate nate circumstance about which the theadmmlstratlon theadministration theadministration admmlstratlon administration is pleasedBut pleasedBut pleased pleasedBut But technically the PresIdent Presidentsargument s sargument sargument argument would be just 3ust as defensl defensi defenslble defensible defensible ble and ) just ust as true if it were Ger Germany Germany Germany many that controlled the seas and andwere andwere andwere were therefore the only belligerent belligerentable belligerentable belligerentable able to come and get themBELLIGERENTS them themBELLIGERENTS BELLIGERENTS ROULD "OULD OULD " OULD P\Y P Y PlY PYIn PlYIn \ In addition addItlOn this capacity would wouldbe wouldbe wouldbe be built bUllt up at the expense e"pense epense e'rpense erpense " ' ot of the belligerents thebelligerents for the price being beingcharged beingcharged beingcharged charged for planes allows a consid considerable considerable erable item for plant eonstructlon construction eonstructlonand constructionand constructionand and depreciat depreelat on enough so that If Ifthe ifthe ifthe the war runs on for any cons der den derable denable derable able period penod the entire cost of allthe 1111 all 1111the allthe the new plants plant will have been wrIt wrItten written written ten ofI-pa ofI pa off-pa off off - pa d for by the bell gercnts gerents Incidentally gercntsIncidentally gerentsIncidentally this is 1S being bemg done doneWith donewith donewith With Withhe \ the \he he benevolent approval of the thegovernment thegovernment thegovernment government agencies interested mterested in ineludmg including ineluding eludmg cluding Henry Morgenti Morgentl au JrBut JrBut Jr JrBut mvestigations mvestlgatlOns investagalions But the congre.siontl congresiontl congre.siontlinvestaga congrc congre . slon'llmvestlga siomi slon'll slonll ' mvestlga investaga tlOns lions are small time lime tome stuff for t 10 vo 10other voother ' voother other reasons reJ.sons reJsons . In the first place If Ifthey ifthey itthey they are really conducted so as to toget toget toget alleged-thai alleged thai allegedthat get at the tacts facts being bemg alleged- alleged - that military secrets are being be betrayedthey betrayedthey betrayed trayed-they trayed they - they will be doing domg a swell swellJob swelljob swelllob Job for Nazi esp onage Th s IS ISonly isonly isonly only true of ot course on the assump t assumpt on that the Germans do not know knowall knowaU knowall all aU about the so called m military militarysecrets militarysecrets ltary ltarysecrets secrets Unless one assumes that thatthe thatthe thatthe the whole thing thmg becomes even eveQ evea more moreridiculous moreridiculous moreridiculous ridiculous for tor the wl wi ole idea ot of otmilitary ofmilitary ofmilitary military secrets becomes a joke |