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Show liy West brook icgler Released by WNU Features. THE power of the invisible gov crnment which Felix Frankfurt r's cult set up within the govern jnent of the United States after h nad boldly wangled his own ap pointment to the supreme court ij strongly suggested by Informatior which was revealed this summer. It has been known for years, o: course, that Frankfurter's trickj Harvard law proteges were spotted In influential places in practicallj all of the experimental radical bu xcaus of the New Deal. There were so many of them anf they were so impudent and flippant f-mvn in tossing arounc jjffcWL the rights and as , . pirations of tht f ' 3 American peoplt t 11131 their e;cistenct ' t as a distinct cliqu f 4fil or corps was com-1,4. com-1,4. V " rnonly appreciated I Sjjri ' In Vhose early days. "N VT4 Gen. Hugh Johnsor f N, amiably referred tc (kWi them as Frankfurt PFGLER HapPy Ho1 PEGLEK Dogs u he ha(J lived, Johnson probably would be less tolerant of their mischief to-iay. to-iay. He was, first and last, a patriot, although he had a juvenile streak which moved him to go traipsing after the pied piper who was going to cure everything by conquering fear and who flattered him by selecting se-lecting him to administer the Fascist Fas-cist NRA. But neither did the rest of the people nor even the sourest skeptics In Washington quite appreciate ap-preciate the sinister nature of Frankfurter's silent process of penetration. We learned on authority early this summer in the memoirs of Harold Ickes that Frankfurter did not wait for distinction to come to him but went campaigning for a job on the aupreme court in a time when political polit-ical and ideological prejudices were "to be substituted more and more lor law. HIS REPUTATION WAS SYNTHETIC AND ALMOST ENTIRELY EN-TIRELY THE RESULT OF PUBLICITY PUB-LICITY AND POSTURING ON NOISY ISSUES. p c Long ago, Theo-tsenent Theo-tsenent dore R00sevet had of called him to time r Harvard charsins hIm witn willful failure to disclose dis-close material truth In the Bisbee deportation case. He had a great claque at Harvard and he got the benefit of Harvard's ancient prestige pres-tige in a day before that prestige had been turned into sordid notoriety notori-ety by the disclosures of the Thomas Thom-as committee on un-American activities. ac-tivities. Actually, Frankfurter was coarse, mysterious and superficial, and I have interviewed one former member mem-ber of his class who would say that he taught more lawyer-craft than law. He would say so if he had to. But, for the time being, he would prefer not to because he is a government gov-ernment employee and, with good ground, afraid that he would be fired for antagonizing Frankfurter's bidden power. Ickes wrote that he learned, on the inside of the seething conspiracy conspir-acy which Roosevelt substituted for government, that Frankfurter was lobbying Roosevelt for a job on the supreme court. There was no false modesty in him. He wanted that Place and the power that went with And, Ickes further disclosed, It was Frankfurter who chose for secretary of war, and put him over, Ilenry L. Stimson, Frankfurter's old boss in the U. S. attorney's office in New York. Mr. Stimson was an amenable old man who went !ong willi the great plan to demolish de-molish Hitler and save Stalin nd Russia before the United States tackled the only enemy which had attacked the United States, Japan. Planted Alger Hiss was one of Frankfurter's hap- py hot dogs from Advisor Harvard law school. ... . He is a precocious Kudy-boy with the supersonic intel- ct who was oo precious to be left ; oe rain t0 catch co,d in tne "e rose to such power in the . te department that when the dod-""ing dod-""ing and dying Roosevelt went Yalta in February. 1945, to sign Za theLfutl", of Europe and Asia na probably of the United States "tne Kremlin. Hiss was at his side. Hiss was only 0 yearg oW ther W nimble and lithe a physical JPimen as you woud be Ukel JXe a"d ficky In his mind. His 5m J before Thomas com- nee discloses a crafty, scheming jelligenee, lraIned to parfy Jd truts. .u pre8sion of ndor and 2? J te Wllible layman who is ea to open dealing. ' toN?.i?nly wa H,8 chosen to go Hip t V tate department ad- S.uJ6 dyUlE President of Wh d. I181"' but later h tank San Fra"cisco for the uL mournful career of " United Nation. v |
