Show NEWS Ft THEN r Released by Western Newspaper Union PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND CONSERVATISM WASHINGTON Roosevelt's choIce of hIs lend lease administrator tor Edward big ex-big busi- busi business business ness man to the post of under under- undersecretary undersecretary secretary of state has been com com- commonly commonly interpreted as another sur- sur surprising surprising evidence of Mr Roosevelt's s swing ving to conservatism in Preparation tion for the coming election It looks more like Mr Roosevelt and esp especially State Secretary Huli Hull are getting ready for a big world world- worldwide worldwide I wide trade development program after the war as perhaps the main theme of peace Mr Hulls Hull's pet pol- pol policy icy throughout his I career has been international free trade He needed and wanted a man with business experience to help along that line The scope of coming policy in this respect has not yet been divulged Furthermore is about as close to the Russians as anyone in this government having been in charge of all the lend lease arrange arrange- arrangements arrangements ments with them Some of the lib lib- liberal liberal eral groups have been complaining that insufficient attention has been paid Russia lately gets along well with the I Russians without having been con con- converted to their ideology As a busi- busi business business ness man lend lend-leasor lend leasor and Russian friend he fills three practical reo re- These are sufficient basic reasons for the surprise beyond the ad- ad advertised advertised political implications 0 0 0 TREND IS THAT WAY It is true the entire series of re- re recent recent cent presidential appointments has followed the more conservative trend which Mr Roosevelt established established back when he dropped Leon Henderson as OPA administrator Since then he has set up the judi- judi judicial judicial cial front composed of Byrnes Vin- Vin Vinson Vinson son and Jones with Bernard Baruch as official adviser in charge of practically all domestic planning He called in the Wisconsin ex- ex banker Leo Crowley already filling two important government posts to take over in addition the Wallace Wallace- Milo Perkins economic sideshow and turn it over to a business function function- functioning functioning ing basis without all the animal acts and reforming ballyhoo Now he has boosted Mr Crowley a notch higher elevating him to control of relief and rehabilitation since Gov- Gov Governor Governor Lehman is preparing to take the bigger international role in that line Lehman also being a New NewYork NewYork York banker All these appointees may be con con- conservative as the liberals rate them but more important than that they seem to represent an effort to do doa a practical job here rather than a apolitical apolitical political job To say sar that Mr Roosevelt has gone conservative however would be going too far as he still has all his old most intimate New Deal as- as associates associates around Hopkins Frankfurter Cohen etc and in most government agen- agen agencies agencies cies you will still find New Dealers hidden away in key spots To me it seems the President has not gone anywhere politically 0 0 WEIRD ACTIVITIES IN ECONOMIC lIC WARFARE The weird activities of agents of Vice President Wallaces Wallace's former B Bu- Bu Bureau I reau of Economic Warfare in their search for strategic materials are still being related Many of his men went into the Amazon jungle area inhabited chiefly by Indians who do donot donot not even wear a sarong or at least only in its most abbreviated form An effort was made to induce them to gather rubber Before the project really got un- un under under der way a government shipment of 1500 sewing machines arrived in inthe inthe the jungle for distribution to the Indians as an inducement to make them work Just who sent them or why was not apparent to those in charge on the ground They were not used and were sent back Inci- Inci Incidentally Incidentally dentally the Indians of that area would not do the work anyway and natives had to be imported from an an- another other district 0 0 0 CONGRESS AND BUREAUCRATS There is much current discussion about how tough congress is going to be with Mr Roosevelt and the bureaucrats The truth is congress cannot do much about either Mr Roosevelt obtained most of his powers immediately after the war started and they are to extend legally until a short time after it ends The annual appropriation bills will not come up until January and the agenda of congress is light The tax bill seems to be the major item item for consideration and some authorIties doubt that anything will be done even on that subject In tact fact the lead leads ts already are talking about adjournment although they have not agreed on a date The main power of congress probably probably ably will continue to be exe exerted ted In Inn Ina n a negative way by investigatIons of government activities in various I and military 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