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C Washington Nov No 3 With With the thc practical certainty sat at atthe the Administrations Administration's amendments to the Neutrality Act will have haye passed passed pass- pass ed pd by y e Day o thereabouts or-thereabouts Washington is turning attention to domestic politics again agnin The exact date of the intensive phase Of tho 19 10 Presidential campaign can n bo be predicted with certainty It will b be bethe bethe e ethe the day upon which the new Neutrality Neutrality Neutrality Neutra Neutra- lity Law is sent by Congress to the President for his signature c h u. u The me THe lid nu will win WIll ue be on off anu and the me 1101 held nem 1 wide open for the candidates for fOl the nominations of both bolh parties tg star start their organizations in high gear How much momentum an any of tho time leading loading aspirants of either party part v have gained as a a result of the Neutrality Neutrality Neutrality Neu Neu- dis discussion is rather rathor difficult difficult- to appraise If the general public accepts tu tit new law as finan finally enacted as being the measure best besl calculated to keep the United States out of oC war tl tieu on the Democratic side tho the go will go to President Roosevelt who Is responsible more than anyo anyone e else eiso for or the Neutrality amendments Politically speaking on on oil tile the R Re Republican publican side the advantage will bo bc rather with Senator Taft o of Ohio I who has favored repeal of the tho arms embargo from froin the beginning than titan with Senator Brandenberg of Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan wh who has vigorously opposed repeal repeat Considered Shadow Boxing I The belief f of most Washington ob observers eners is that the general pu public has come around to acceptance of or I what Washington Washing 1 analysts have felt from the start of the controversy controversy contro contro- ers versy that neither repeal nor De Detention retention re- re of the embargo will make the slightest practical difference i if the nation really comes face to taco face with the Issue Of oC participation In Europe's war All the debates on un I this tins point are regarded by bv realists I here hmo as so much shadow Of considerably more more Importance in the minds of the most realistic observers ers are arc the time cash and cash and I provisions with their ther accompanying restrictions upon the freedom of I movement of American ships on tuo turf high seas The amendments cd I u upon POll lJ by the time Sena Senate te commit committee tec i xo- xo lax tax those restrictions materially y 1 0 leaving lea tho time whole Pacific Ocean an and most of tho time Atlantic open to American Amen Ameri 1 can CUll stripping shipping and trans-oceanic trans air air- raft I There will however doubtless b bo b I sharp differences of opinion as t to tc tile the merits of or the new law not all an I bused based nn on partisanship Therefore there is a growing opinion among amon j I political observers In Washington that chat the tho candidates for or the Presidential I nominations Of rf the two groat I parties who will have the best t I chance may well be men who have havo taken an active e part in the Nell Nell- 1 Continued Continue on last page paget This Week Weir In DC D.C. Continued from page one traUt frailty program or committed themselves them selves to support Of any phase n nf of it Swing To Toward ar i Douglas If It we wo leave the President himself out of or consideration which more and more close scrutinizers scrutinizes of nub nub- Hc lie affairs are arc inclining to do me the tendency Is to believe that the power of or the Administration will Ue tie behind Democrat who thrown some tn JI has not been too ClOse closely with the New Deal There id Is a tl feeling that Paul V. V McNutt Is by byno byno byno no means so sure sura of Presidential support as his friends have believed red him to be and that Frank the General Attorney-General is out of he running Talk is swinging toward Supreme Court Justice William O O. O Douglas formerly head of or the Securities Se and Exchange Commission as us- a 3 likely candidate for the Pres Ires Presidential S- S as the successor nr fo to Mr Roosevelt This is taken Quito quite seriously In some well in formed quarters who do not believe believe believe be be- lieve the President will seek seele a third term for himself It is pointed out that Douglas is much more likely to command the support support of New anti Deal Democrats than anybody odY i else t C I I IWho who has hns lC boon been n close to the Whitehouse White Whito I House jn in tho the past llast few years cars and that he has not had bad any part in iI I tho Neutrality discussion That might create the interesting situation of two former classmates School I of Columbia University Law running against each other for the Presidency for on the political dope sheets District Attorney Thomas W. W Dewey of or New York stands out not only in public estimation based on past performances but as the ono one leading Republican Presidential candidate candidate candidate can can- who has not been tangled up Neutrality discus discus- I In an any way In the Both Mr Dewey Dewcy and Justice Douglas graduated from Columbia Law School in Iii 1925 1025 though the I latter laller is nearly four years older than D I Mr Dewey Dewer He went into the teaching teaching teach teach- ing o of law at Yale while Mr Dewey Dc went into the practise o of law in N New Jw York Age Objections Discounted Stranger things have happ happened ned than lImn that those tw two old classmates should find themselves running forthe forthe for forthe the Presidency against each other The acceptance among many seasoned seasoned seasoned seas seas- politicians of the idea of or putting putting putting put put- ting Justice Douglas forward orward as Democratic candidate is regarded here as sufficient evidence that the objections raised to Mr Dewey on account of his youth are so much bunk Between 43 and 40 which will be the respective ages of Doug Doug- I I I I I L. L l r las and n Dewey Dewe when the next PresIdent Pres Pres- l there thele Is not ld Ident ent is inaugurated enough difference to count The prevailing political Idea In iii in Washington ashington now is to keep the war Presidential campaign I out of the No oile one now believes that a n situation I threatening to Involve the United arise States across the Atlantic can before the 1940 1910 elections Across the tho Pacific c the outlook is regarded as na better bettor than it has been heen for the past year The carefully speech of Ambassador Joseph C Grew on his 1113 return to Tokyo fro a visit to Washington has had j decided belien effect Washington ton belief In III minimizing the possibility o Of QU armed embroilment in the Far E East Bast I Tomato Breathes Through h Skin Skip tomato with a skin The pra Pal r tic ally gas tl tight ht bre breathes attics entirely through its stem aca Scar near i |