Show difficulty in was 91 7 washington it by WALTER LIPPMANN this session of congress D DURING there has been prompt and effective action in one matter of the greatest importance namely national defense on the other two major issues foreign policy and domestic recovery there bus bas been delay division deadlock and national disunion no doubt men can agree more readily on the need to str strengthen enthen armaments than they can agree agre on a definition of what a are r e american vital interests in asia in the pacific in south america and in europe with the nation as a whole agreeing on the need for more armaments it Is a fairly simple matter to vote the authorizations and to appropriate the funds for the army and navy this is easier than it is to agree on the level of domestic expenditures and their distribution the character of taxes and their distribution nevertheless th eless the contrast is striking between the unanimity on national defense and the disunity on foreign policy and domestic recovery 1 As the disagreement sharpens and the deadlock hardens the controversies I 1 over foreign affairs and domestic recovery take on the appearance of an irreconcilable conflict of principles observers who have to I 1 comment on these issues find it mole moie and more convenient to make the contusion confusion intelligible by interpreting it as a deadlock among sharply defined theories between isolationism and intervention between spending and a balanced budget between collectivism iso and private enterprise and so on and so on but this can become a misleads misleading adi interpretation of 0 the true situation situation a subtle misrepresentation of what is actually going on which unintentionally tio nally aggravates the confusion and accentuates the disagreement the truth is I 1 believe that in the great divisions in washington between the business community and the administration between new dealers and congress the conflict is primarily between men only incidentally ci between their ideas they have acquired the habit of disagreeing of dis trusting one another another of trying to beat out one another and in this human quarrel theories are much less articles of 0 faith than they are weapons in a quarrel thus for cample xa mple the controlling fact in the whole field of american foreign policy is that there is no continuing personal confidential communication between congress on the one hand the president and the state department on the other each moves in a separate sphere and there Is no such thing as effective communication between them the actual cause of the whole deadlock is in this separation between the two branches of government that have to collaborate it if ethere 1 there is to be an american foreign policy whatever debatable differences really exist have become magnified out of all proportion by the 1 failure allure of the president to take congress into his confidence by the failure of congress to create an atmosphere in which the president can prudently take it into his con fi fide dence what end al dears to i solemn illa arct 1 beg 1 k issues Is the 01 tile the co 4 between cause mr of the th ehaS and I 1 hand roosevelt trot a and the Con on the conar grean on th the e other 0 oliu lea I 1 they distrust do I 1 not each other consult lz iuli because Bec u auseth consult tb they distrust ey more and B a r more they have ge fallen falla 4 into S quarreling they are the ba I 1 unable 1 men to make n 9 clear sti lia the ene american and berous world posit position on in siz they hating bating great poll policies cies seem asto to be are conducting a feud actually at 6 icy is dragged in W MA in to rationalize and dr dra and of the justify austif th quarrel nt V this same torn tom of the condition esst la at th h twe tween n the administration paralyzing co conflict inflict business IOA i ing in all community the el elaborate there ere b I 1 tashi and theories being V debated before senat senator gliatas it committee or elsewhere articulate ton in which Innabi inhabitants tants 0 of f anaam W wasch men could not discerning find a arid and pl rag merit ment on the next working he be taken it Is practical son not divides the main principle dealers from congress body of UK the W bi or iron from main mass of I 1 B t the e people ople personal n an antagonism on personal anict nd it lib ant antagonism on W which ch both sides acta t to aacen accentuate ate all UK differences a and to ignore I 1 ore an th they could agree upon it Is idle to ask whether side or the other Is the a the more irreconcilable tempera not I 1 grievance for er era which the lne anti new ers are dursin nursing the mlle new vew da have an atrocity story of their K which they cling to lovingly most men do when i then their grievances they ey c abali the fact of the matter it Is boi ever that when each side ha n counted the me reasons why it wa trust the other other or work it t the sake of the country the net lit it all is i that things are stalled h cause men are not inaina enough not tely enough MS berned with the teal real pr I 1 overcome their resent menti ic their vanities there is a hu human man washington mcday ay in which so and vindictiveness animosity a and pride e are being belli pi craded as d doctrine trill and for policy the rhe in moral I 1 r alib for remedying th this condition ridi tion na on the conscience of one man IH man is the president of the ual states to say this is not to overtook hi fact that he has been and is hi confronted by an which recruits some part of its from reactionary and se selfish aff ests which fights turn of ofte nun tool and at times 7 moral responsibility Is mr MM belts responsibility because b es he has power to r establish cc cation among men of good have divergent opinions to re wl |