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OTERS in the United States have told
President Roosevelt to lead four years more, and lead he will. Never has a more peremp- tory mandate been given for personal leadership in a democratic country. To-morrow, President Roosevelt will be inaugurated for his second term of office, which will last until January 6, 1941. Roosevelt himself refrained Inwa. So if a N.R.A. during the campaign from being new
is coming it explicit about his plans if re will not be elected. He contented himself like the old by saying he would carry on as one.
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·His first task will be political, taught old onc as all who know him intimately Roosevelt testify. He will put the De- lesson. It mocratic Party's house in order, quickly turn- cut down redundant
into office ed holders and name a stronger business Cabinet. His ambition is to
bureau - make the Democratic Party the Cracy imbued
with ruling party of the United thing any
but
a
States for many terms to come. New Deal He wants it associated in the philosophy.
Roosevelt
and business is seriously affect.
public mind with prosperity, Another unfinished job left and to leave the Republicans over from the first administra-ed by paralysing associated with depression.
tion is Housing. Here the President had already forecast strikes,
For his political programme one must look to what Roose- velt was unable to finish in his first term.
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Roosevelt's second
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LEGISLATION putting tion. The
an end to the issue strong personal affection for
on which him.
ANOTHER. ASPIRANT
FOR COLONIES. Poland has now joined those
be, strained. nations who are seeking more
Roosevelt is HE had been impressed elbow-room. Organised by
by foreign criticisms expected to of the dilatory way in which overhaul political organisation, a "Coloniali First of all is the constitu- the United States tackled the whold Federal-
tional issue. He will meet it in housing Day" was recently held for the
programme. Slum tax machinery purpose of impressing upon the the largest sense by the ap- clearance had gone forward at during
pointment of Justices to the a snail's pace. Washington had second term. He people the idea that the Colonial Supreme Court who are sym- been caught between the desiro has already problem has become one of prim-pathetic to the New Deal out- to do a thorough task and the promised to re- fear of taking away business vise the new ary importance to the State. It look. In four years enough from private builders.
tax, on members of the court will have is claimed that as Poland, like retired voluntarily or. by death
porate surpluses, and promised Wallace will be Secretary for The biggest trouble around that no new taxation will be Agriculture. He raised farm the corner for Roosevelt is
necessary to balance the bud- incomes by fifteen hundred get. dustrialised, she must have. ac-amending the constitution by
million pounds and talked more. John Lewis tells him bluntly
sense about economics than to raw materials, whilst interpretation without having that he was elected because
anybody else in the administra to carry the question to
the organised Labour markets must be found for her
and
President has people.
organised Labour voted for him, industrial products in order to
During his first term Roosevelt of bonds interest provide work for the un-
did open the door for Labour to is exempt from taxation is to THERE may be employed. A further demand is
help itself; but on many occa be expected. More soak the sions he whittled away the rich" taxation is unlooked for, THE Secretary to the specific. amendment rights of Labour as defined by but certainly laws will be
Treasury will be Mor- for "free territories overseas"----
permitting States to
Roosevelt's ennet New Deal laws and regulations. passed stopping up the trap genthau. He is whatever that may meanin
Minimum Wage
By representative. legislation. Now he is going to have to be doors by which the rich now personal
profession à gentleman farmer, order to relieve over-population Even Landon spoke for that in the leader for Labour if he evade taxation.
hopes to keep the Democratic The Cabinet will be recon- he is without financial experi- In the Polish cities. These accepting nomination.
Party permanently in powce, structed. Mr. Hull, Secretary ence. But he is utterly depend- demands are put forward in a But the more fundamental That means that the weight of State, is sure of his post. able us a spokesman for the. manner which is said to brook questions of what to do about and sympathy of the Federal His trade treatles actually be White House, whereas anyone of no delay, it being declared the clauses of the constitution Government must be behind came issues in the campaign. taken from the business world that for the sake of the peace of which limit Federal power to Labour's fight to unionise mass So the Roosevelt victory en- might not be.
production industries. Roose- dorses a policy favouring two- All other Cabinet posts are in inter-State commerce and
doubt. Secretary 'Ickes prob-- Europe satisfaction on the points which prohibit the confiscation to posterity as the greatest ara
velt's second term may go down way international trade,
Hull, who came into the ably will continue in office. He raised must be secured in the of property "without due pro- of strikes in our history. If the Cabinet as a stately nineteenth- is a trouble-maker because of the his lack of tact. But ho is a near future. Nothing is said, cess of law," under which most Supreme Court throws out the century Idealist, is now however, as to how the demands New Deal legislation was nulli- Wagner Law under which most popular personality in New Dealer in every pore and are to be met; neither is there fied, can more readily be dealt Labour's rights are guaranteed Roosevelt's circle. any hint as to where these with by naming a more liberal colonies are to be obtained. The court than by constitutional!
economic aspect. of the question, amendment,
80
There is
THERE WILL
not ask whether
devoted to the President.
BE NO WAR
IN EUROPE
cause the preservation of their homes will only be a matter of chance.
Unaygressive Nations
against: There is a third reason war-that the countries which are supposed to be the most aggressive are the poorest.
far as the running of the Landon charged Roosevelt colonies is concerned, also ap- with intending to re-establish pents to have been overlooked, another N.R.A., and challenged After
him to deny all, colonics
it. Roosevelt's are an ex-
I meet men and women of many reply was evasive. He listed nationalities, and I find them pensive luxury, especially in the
the objectives of the N.R.A. very apprehensive about the possi- carly days, when the foundations better wages, shorter hours, the near future.
bility of an outbreak of war in the have to be laid for future abolition of child labour and
The farther castward one goes into
By LORD STRABOLGI development.
the Continent of Europe the more more the reduction of "chiseling" people seem obsessed by the fear of than a suspicion in some quar-but he also stated that he was war; and, indeed, many of them do
more there will be
Important than the murder Arch- of the unfortunate Austrian ters that this now Polish organ-going to fight monopoly. Now great war, but when will it break duke, which could have been causes credit, so to speak, without money A short campaign can be fought on
isation is largely actuated by a the essence of the N.R.A. was out.
I believed that these apprehensions of war had the nations of Europe and and wealth in the form of a store of feeling that as other nations are that business in granting con- are ill-founded; that there need not their rulers accepted war as being goods. But now the general staffs
either desirable or inevitable.
have learnt the lesson that no war clamouring for more territory, cessions to labour was given future, and that there will not be streniles broken; armies have march-
be a war in Europe in the near
Rulers have been assassinated and is likely to be a short war.
This terrible business in Spain, for Poland should also come into the the suspension of the anti-trust war. I have a number of reasonsed into territory they were forbidden picture. A further suggestion is
year at feast, and I have even which is psychological, is to enter: an important colonial war cample is expected to last for an- possible that the issue is being raised but has yet to be proved that that the Great War came like a bolt has been waged by Italy against the heard two years stated as its
influence of the League of Nations duration. from the blue. The majority of and yet pence has been preserved. Somebody has to
to start a war bnd mainly for the purpose of divert it is impossible to secure these people in all countries were thinking
about other things their businesses, This shows, therefore, that the remember that all means of concilia- ing the people's minds from raw materials in any other way their pleasures, their sport and the peoples and through them their tion will be mobilised at the first other and more immediate dis- than by actual acquisition of terrible event was unexpected. rulers, however much the latter may threat. We can leave out the small- contents, whilst one commenta-colonies. The
To-day people are talking about bluff and bluster and shout, wish to er nations. None course war, and therefore thinking about it avoid the dread ordeal of battle. tor seca in the move the prelude would appear to be by the come it will not come as a surprise, break of war partly explains the first
and what it means. · If war does The second reason against the out-count. But consider to an effort to get rid of some of method of trade
We can rule out agreements and it will not be possible for states- reason. The weapons of destruction
ourselves,
ond 1 the millions of Jews who live in which result in the removal or drift into war.
have Increased in power, and this think it is fair to say that every other To reinforce this opinion, Ict us fact is understood everywhere. country rules us out too. All par- tes In this country, are united in Poland. Whatever the actual modification of existing barriers examine the immediate cause of the
Great War. It was the assassination public all
Even before the last great war wishing to avold war, truth may be, it is difficult to to trade. There have been of the heir to one of the great broke out the buble in our countrie France is in much the sums situn- thrones of Europe in a provincial
The French have no aggres- see that any very strong case many examples latterly of re-town In Bosnia. The forces armies, conscript or professional. It can be made out for Polish ex-ciprocal treaties along these lines, where gult occurred in August how the civil population would suffer, conquest are over, and this fact is gathered, tensions began, and the was not understood then, as it is now, sive designs; they want to be left in peace their days of expansion and
wiser
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