Show dispelling THE rog FOG by charles michelson Mi chekon because of some senator criticism of in this column for his position that 1 dional internal affairs are arc subordinate to 10 domestic politics in we imports importance nce are republican gravely assailed by the outfit of bringing polities politics into the neutrality controversy by advocating the repeal of the arms embargo naturally I 1 have attempted to tc avoid letting our mutual propaganda degenerate into a duel duct of press agents but after all the author of ahe indicated accusation is the putative mouthpiece of tile the republican national committee i notwithstanding the wraps under which he is running the ad advocacy vo of the repeal of the embargo is the policy declared by the pres ident in his message to congress arnd also constitutes the opinion of the democratic majority in in congress they believe that the cash and carry substitute tor for thc jhc embargo with its corollary ot keeping american ships away from localities their presence in which might provoke dangerous incidents should be helpful ir in j keeping us out of war I 1 have yet to learn whether officially fici ally the republican national committee is for or against thy embargo revision naturally the inclination would be to oppose it because the president is for it and an the fiert tenet of the anti ad creed is that anything the president wants or does must be wrong ot on the other hand many of the high ranking republicans nicholas murray butler and former secretary of state stimson for example agree with the president as to neutrality and I 1 suspect though I 1 do not accuse republican chairman john hamilton being of the same school of thought all of which indicates that neutrality have any ans domestic politics mixed up with it somewhat confusing but according to the output of my republican contemporary the new dealers wickedly are planning an intensive movement I 1 thought I 1 was a new dealer until the G Q 0 P trombonists latest circular informed me to the contrary now tho same authority publishes that the presidents supporters have established a publicity department part ment in opposition to the one from which this letter emanates which Is spot news to me and I 1 believe to tho new deal however not important beyond L emphasizing the confusion that exists in the G 0 P which neither knows what variety of candi candidate date it wants for the 1940 sacrifice or what sort ot of program the candidates candidate ultimately chosen sho should iCid run on I 1 another funny sample of campaign literature recently issued was a the he call 1111 of editor frank gannett to congress to repeal all grants of power that might he used by the executive to get the nation into war wo we have been told by editor gl gonnett and others ot 01 the self appointed guardians of our liberties that mr roosevelt is striving to be a dictator now what kind of a dictator is in the making considering si that for seven years the president ident has been in full possession of the various powers mr gannett lists and used any of them except the one in which lie declared a limited emergency when as mr gannett sets forth any emergency proclaimed by the president is legally a complete emergency solemnly we are warned that now the president can take over the entire broadcasting system of if the nation afe he can suppress public discussion by radio of views view contrary to h his is own he can seize any or all bro broadcasting ad casting stations and turn them ov over er to any department in nt of government etc the radio act became law in 1934 any time during the past five years just jus t by saying emergency the president could have embargoed the air against all criticism I 1 doubt it if of f the administration whole history shows an example our u r of such scandalous neglect of opportunity in that time the anti administration 0 orators have kicked the new D deal eal all over the lot and charged the president W with ith every crime from treason down they have berated the social security act the supreme court measure the wages wage r and hours laws law the agriculture b bill ill appointments to government jo jobs bs neutrality in fact pretty nearly everything he has proposed whatever he was for the air rang ra ng with denunciations against whatever he Ws was against the atmosphere was shattered with arguments ments for coun country try still safe I 1 and all the time he sat in the vi white hite house attending to his regular business as president when he thought the occasion required he made his fireside talks or some of those whose views accorded with his own told the country the why of what he was trying to do in consonance with the principle that everybody and every political party had an equal right and privilege to broadcast |