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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938.
CHINA'S "FRIENDLY"
ENEMY
int
Will Roosevelt be President a third time?
--that's what people are asking as the President once more startles America. By pumping millions into a new public works programme, he puts a new spring into world trade.
HEN crabby gage on his third trip to the
All his work will be ruined if
Mrs. Roosevelt, a successful. columnist, lecturer and author, has all she wants from the White House. All her family have good jobs (so good that one un-' gallant Congressman said of Mra, James Roosevelt: "Even the old mother is in the baking. powder ads") and have proved themselves enough to hold them. Her favourite son, James, his
W George Washing White House, how much more, he doesn't run again, say those father's liaison officer, is so es-
ton came to the argue these people, must Ameri- who ask these questions anxious- tablished he can take a governor- end of his second term as ca be afraid in these days of ly. We will be back where we ship, or, better still, his father's started if the Old Deal comes old job, Assistant Secretary, of America's first President coups, isms, dictatorships. they begged him to run Has not this man Roosevelt, back, and then there will be real the Navy.
this "awful demagogue," shown danger of Fascism or Com- Mrs. Roosevelt, above all a again.
Angry at attacks from the already ambitions that call for munism, New Dealism is no perfect wife, is afraid for her news-letters, homesick for the an American Brutus? Has he danger. It must stay with husband to renew his lease on
sense of
old plantation which he had left not tried to kill business, in the Roosevelt to direct it. eight years in the care of slaves, democratic American Washington declined, retired to the word, by Government Mount Vernon to die.
the White House. If the Pre- sident were any one else ho
ROOSEVELT is himself would be a permanent invalid.
outwardly against a
As it is he tries to do as much meddling and restriction?
third term. Inwardly he has
physically as he does mentally. Timo has woven a beautiful, Does he not threaten the very already made up his mind to ac- It has aged him already (com but quite unconfirmable, legend life of the great corporations, cept the 1940 nomination when
around that half-selfish decision.
he was afraid too much power would turn even the most honest men's eyes towards a crown.
Deal
В
pare a photograph of 1932 and one of to-day), and another term may affect his health.
WILD
are
VILL Roosevolt do it
again if he does run
Any American to-day will tell built by the pioneering enter it is offered him. | you that the father of his coun- prise of the few, by taxation and
Like Washington, he is angry try refused a third term because Nazi-flavoured anti-trust laws? at the newspapers for blaming Party chiefs will also advise Is not the Tennessee Valley him for the business recession. Roosevelt to step aside, even if Great Britain deeply deplores
Authority, Government-operated Unlike Washington, he wants to he still controls his successor
from the wings. They competitor of Big Business's stay and show them they are
afraid that Democrats, opposed the slaughter of civilians and of
From the legend has grown utility companies, a signpost on wrong. Like Washington, he is to some of Roosevelt's policies, captured Chinese soldiers by the America's only--and therefore the road to Rooseveltian homesick for the lush acres of will take advantage of the third-
most cherished-tradition. No Japanese attacking force
term legend to vote against him. President may run for a third Fascism? Does not the New his Hyde Park estate. Amoy, according to ກ British
tern of office.
employ propaganda Unlike Washington, he honest- Wireless despatch. And, in spite Will Franklin Delano Roose-
"Ministry" of 236 Press agents ly believes America neods him of the Japanese denials that any velt break the rules, do what all just as efficient and danger- more than the cornfields need for the Presidency? such things occurred, there is Ulysses Grant tried and failed ousas Germany's Professor him.
It all depends. 2 bound to be a strong reaction to do, what Theodore Roosevelt Goebbels?
New York's raspy-voiced little was afraid to do, what Calvin against the nation which is Coolidge did not choose to do- dangerous, say those who ask rica if his carefully planned would like to move from City Yes, this man Roosevelt 18-Fascism or Communism in Ame- mayor, Florello LaGuardia, making war upon China on the accept the nomination he will the questions apprehensively. Of middle course is abandoned. Hall to the White House. He pretext of combatting Com- undoubtedly receive in 1940 to course he will be offered a third They may call this New Deal a created a party-the American. run for a third term? And if term. Of course he will take it. high-sounding patent medicine Labour Party--for that purpose. he does, will he be re-elected?
Americans are asking them- can selves those two questions.
munism and making it possible for friendly Chinese to Co- operate with Tokyo in exploiting the republic. For unfortunately for Japan, all the denials and excuses which can be made, will not remove the conviction that the present war is being pro-
secuted with રી ruthlessness waging this undeclared
Roosevelt sees a real danger of
Unless we of the upper crust that the patient won't buy
If he decides to run against unite to beat him, New twice, but he wants to force an- Dealism will take its place on other bottle down the patient's Roosevelt in 1940 he will not be but he may prevent the world's totalitarian map, al throat to prove that in the long elected,
Roosevelt from being elected. SOME ask those ques- ready stamped with Fascism's run it is a real cure. If Washington was afraid a man munism's red.
tions apprehensively. black, Nazism's brown, Com- Moreover he thinks his medi- In his smashing victory over cine might do the world at large. Governor Alf Mossman Landon might slip a crown into his lug-
While his name is in 1986. Roosevelt polled 27,- Others ask those questions some good. anxiously. What is going to still in the world's mind he 000,000 votes against Landon's war happen to us if Roosevelt doesn't wants to do something to bring 17,000,000. The landslide for Roosevelt was the largest in his- parallel to that displayed by the steadfastly maintaining that she brought us out of the wood that
run again? they ask. Roosevelt the world peace and security.
He wants to follow his "big tory, and so it can be assured most bare-faced conquerors of has only the welfare of China Hoover let grow wild. Roose- stick" navy programme through that the opposition's vote was
its rock-bottom history. Moreover, denials are at heart, and that the aim is to velt gave us jobs, and if there to its conclusion. He wants to of little
see success for his economic avail against eye-cultivate the friendship of the weren't any he created them. witnesses' tales of atrocities. Chinese people; The first Japan-
He stopped child labour, theories. The story of the massacre of ese to make this assertion may closing their doors more often sweat-shops. He stopped banks civilians rounded up following have been sincere; but latterly, than opening them. the bomb-throwing incident in the eyes of foreign observera
The opposition would, there- fore, presumably poll at least the same number of votes. Lo- THERE will be opposi- Guardia would take a lot of la- tion to his accepting a bour votes away from Roosevelt in the vitally important eastern States.
third term nomination.
which killed seven Japanese on of Far Eastern events, the ex-street. He closed the back door wife, Eleanor, and that is more He stopped the rot in Wall- First against it will be his the Amoy Bond, and the sub-cuse has become a mockery of of the White House to string important than it sounds to any vote between Roosevelt and La- In those States splitting of the sequent slaughter of more than truth. There can no longer be pulling economic royalists. He one who has not tried to cross Guardia would, under America's 100 of these prisoners, has pos- any doubt about Japan's aime made America a better place to an American woman with her complicated electoral system,
mind made up. sibly not yet been circulated in in China. There can no longer be
give victory to the opposition. Britain. The official protest only much doubt but that the pro- |
Roosevelt is confident-his concerned the alleged shooting mises of "an open door" are
enemics say, conceited-enough
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live in.
of captured soldiers and the going to be side-stepped. The GRIN AND BEAR IT
machine-gunning of refugees,
plans for vast monopolies in the dreadful enough in themselves, occupied areas are proof enough but, in the height of battle, not quite so calculatedly cruel as
of that.
The ghastly and inhuman the execution of scores who must have been innocent of any practices of the fighting men bod enough; crime-except, perhaps, that in Spain are
they may have been close but there is no attempt to hide] enough to see and approve the the fact that those responsible throwing of the bomb. And are prompted by a white-hot who will blame them? Their hatred which stops at nothing, country la invaded, their homes and each side is determined to utterly destroy the other. There destroyed.
is no mealy-mouthed apology by "Why is it," a critical in either General Miaja or General quirer said the other day, "that Franco when shells and bombs to wreck civilian homes and hos- you newspapers continue attack the Japanese for their pitals and churches. There is a treatment of their enemies, certain almost admirable de- when the same sort of thing la fiance in the attitude of both happening in Europe and doesn't sides towards third powers causo half the pother?" There which are allies, of neither. But, are several reasons; and the probably more than any other least important in the feeling reason, the nearness of the out- that British interests are bound for sharper and more frequent rages In the China war make to be affected by the depreda criticisms of Japan in this tions upon China. Japan is aphere.
By Lichty to think he could still win.
fellase ain't got anybody to
of lawyeri
TF it is a straight fight between Roosevelt and
any one the Republican Party like to select, Roosevelt will win. Roosevelt is as popular as a case of measles in New York. They jeer him in the newa reels, cheer stodgy, forgotten Hoover to spite him.
They tell vulgar stories about him. They curse him at home. and abroad. But New York is not America.
In America at large there are thousands of farmers, ditch- diggers, `negroes, lower-bracket. wage-earners who would put a cross against Roosevelt's name whatever happened.
Reliable surveys show that at this moment, when, from living in New York, one would think Roosevelt was the most unpopu lar man In America, his popu larity actually has dropped only four per cent. from its 1938 peak
Roosevelt can, and probably will, do it again.
C.V.R. Thompson