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Show - Sees St lo Xlettbrook Pegler Released by WNU Features, r? FELIX FRANKFURTER had I taken only the part that a su-' su-' c0Urt justice normally takes fte social and intellectual life of Washington, there would be no interest in-terest in his influence on the char-Ictef char-Ictef and the political direction of ihe American government, at home d 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-.eees pro-.eees friends, stooges or political P2rrt and ideological agents wherever he : jvT ' : could. He had a legal right to plant them in the war 4' department where fe'fi he finally did put tM$ his old friend. f-SP;-f Henry L. Stimson, "- as secretary at the I lAM age of 73, first jos- j.. tbng Harold Ickes and Frank Murphy out of the way. He had a legal right to recommend recom-mend and see to the placement of men who were, to his mind and for bis 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 XJP TO HIS EYES IN POLITICS. EE 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-0f Frank-0f . furter in directing . the destiny of the J actics united States never has been spotted by a bettor authority author-ity than Ickes, whose expose of this tip-toeing undercover agent nevertheless never-theless has gone almost unnoticed. Ides pulled tine whiskers off Frankfurter Frank-furter his 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 influ- ential men. by audacity and initiative, initi-ative, could become the rulers of the United Stales by ruling the president. Certainly in World War II and for some time before this nation . 1 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. f Ickes tells us Jockey that on November for 21, 1939, Tom Cor- p . coran, also known Positlon as Tommy the Cork, the prize weenie of the entire jitter of happy hot dogs, came to him telling of a conversation he had had with Roosevelt. He said jjiat he had said to Roosevelt. 'Now that Frank Murphy is going to the supreme court, how about toe war department?" Ickes doesn't say so, but I say that Frankfurter shoved Murphy "ide just when Murphy thought Koosevelt 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, wooding Irishman who particularly particular-ly hated the English for their Persecutions of the Irish and there-tore there-tore wouldn't send them American help if they got into war with Hitter Hit-ter or anyone else. Frankfurter wanted a man who would go out after Hitler. ue apprehended that hf wouldn't be ablo to get alon with Murphy and handle him nd events have borne him out. Murphy now hates his very Wpei for doing him out of thai ?'. TUE FEKLIG IS MU-UAl MU-UAl AND, ALTOGETHER, INFLUENTIAL FACTOR EL TnE HYSTERIA WHICH DAYSES LAW V1 mi?68-16"3 US lhat 8fter a t 0 'fZ? f and Poetical trimming l Ctually went so fa' . Wm he would make him cretary 0I war u h(J coud find 'teSSr ?an 10 replace blm " sectary sec-tary of the Interior. |