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Show IPegleii Sees It Ug eilbrvok Pegler Keleased by WNU Features. TF FELIX FRANKFURTER had 1 taken only the part that a si preme court Justice normally takei in the social and intellectual life o) Washington, there would be no in terest in his influence on the character char-acter and the political direction oi the American government, at hom and broad. NO WRITTEN REQUIREMENT RE-QUIREMENT FORBIDS A JUSTICE JUS-TICE TO DO ANY OF THE THINGS FRANKFURTER DID. He had a right to plant his pro teges. friends, stooges or political rZCl and ideological ; i agents wherever he r-l&a" '1 could' He had " ft'lvl 'them in wat '4 i department where . he finally did put I : hls 0,d 'riend. 5 NJrl Henry L. Stimson, t eX" 83 secrelarv a th . t 1 age of 73, first Jos- i-- ..iufc.Wii jling Harold Ickes and Frank Murphy out of the way. He had a legal right to recommend recom-mend and see to the placement oi men who were, to his mind and for his purposes, valuable servants of the government in the state department depart-ment and in the agencies which absolutely rule the radio industry under a policy saturated with communism. com-munism. He had this right, but such Interference certainly was unusual un-usual and unbecoming. And, by the standards of many Americans, it was unethical. FRANKFURTER WAS A JUDGE UP TO HIS EYES IN POLITICS. HE WAS PUSHING. SHOVING, ELBOWING INTO BUSINESS THAT WAS NO PROPER AFFAIR OF ANY MAN SITTING ON THE SUPREME COURT. Foreign relations rela-tions were none of his business. War strategy was none of his business. busi-ness. He was an intimate social friend and ideological comrade of Roosevelt and an avowed partisan of much of Roosevelt's violent philosophy phi-losophy of government. The sly, insolent Expose power of Frank- of furtcr in directing . the destiny of the I actics United statcs never has been spotted by a better authority author-ity than Ickes, whose expose of this tip-toeing undercover agent nevertheless never-theless has gone almost unnoticed. Ickes pulled the whiskers off Frankfurterhis Frank-furterhis friend, by the way in an installment of his commercialized commercial-ized memoirs in the Saturday Evening Eve-ning Post. In this piece Ickes writes that Frankfurter elbowed him out of the office of secretary of war, which Roosevelt was in a mood to trust to him. The enormity of this Is that Frankfurter, a justice of the supreme court, was scurrying around lobbying and running the government. A man who served with Frankfurter Frank-furter in one of the bureaus In Washington in World War I told me not long ago that Frankfurter once said to him and some associates associ-ates that he envisioned a situation in which a small group of Influential Influ-ential men, by audacity and initiative, initi-ative, could become the rulers of the United States by ruling the president. Certainly In World War II and for some time before this nation formally entered the war, Frankfurter Frank-furter did wield power over Roosevelt Roose-velt and the more important departments. de-partments. HIS INFLUENCE WAS EXERTED BY SUBTLETY. HE HAD HIS MEN PLANTED ALL OVER THE PLACE. Ickes tells us Jockey that on November for 21, 1939, Tom Cor-r" Cor-r" . . """ "coTanr fflsT (Tiltmr Potition at Xornmy tne Cork, the prize weenie of the entire litter of happy hot dogs, came to him telling of a conversation he had had with Roosevelt. He said that he had said to Roosevelt, "Now that Frank Murphy Is going to the supreme court, how about the war department?" Ickes doesn't say so, but 1 say that Frankfurter shoved Murphy aside Just when Murphy thought Roosevelt was going to make him secretary of war. This was Murphy's Mur-phy's great ambition. But Frankfurter Frank-furter recognized in him a stubborn, brooding Irishman who particularly particular-ly hated the English for their persecutions of the Irish and therefore there-fore wouldn't send them American help If they got into war with Hitler Hit-ler or anyone else. Frankfurter wanted a man who would go out after Hitler. He apprehended that he wouldn't be able to get along with Murphy and handle him and events have borne him out Murphy now hate his vrr tripes fnr doing him out of that Job. THE FEELING IS MU-Tl'AL MU-Tl'AL AND. ALTOGETHER, AN IMLl'ENTIAL FACTOR THE HYSTERIA WHICH PASSES FOR LAW THESE DAYS. Ickes tells us that after lot of filling In and political trimming Roosevelt actually went so far as to tell him he would make him accretary of war It he could find a good man to replace him at secretary sec-retary of the Interior. |