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PRESIDENT AND

CONGRESS

Early clashes suggest that while the session will be stormy, most of t

measures e Administration's

Mr-

be passed. Roosevelt, confident in the sup- It is patent to-day that Pre-port he retains among the mass sident Roosevelt's contest with of the American people, and sill "big business" and an insurgent matchless in political ability, re- Congress the heaviest handicap mains undismayed by Wall to that more active participation Street's market manipulation of the United States in interna end threat of a slump as a coun- tional questions which Britain, ter-move to swing public senti- France and China hope for. The ment against the New Dear struggle is thus both politically programme. The représenta- and economically attracting wide tions at the end of the year that attention. There is no illusion "something must be done to in Washington on the point that reassure business interests and the United States is as much a re-establish confidence" apparent- target as Great Britain for long-ly leave the President cold. In range attack by Japan, "The his message to Congress last {forgotten man" of the President's November, Mr. Roosevelt urged

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over, no merely local element in enterprise did not take up the the world's political grievances. slack" dangers of social unrest Re-creation of prosperity and would be intensified. He now increasing individual spending says roundly that "the selfish power is so much the concern of suspension of the employment of statesmen in all countries that capital" must be ended, and he the domestic struggles of every indicted "eight unfair practices" nation do, in the broad view, em- in business, including stock phasise everywhere the main|manipulation and monopolies. element of international strife. A Just as he is prepared to control ready retort that charity begins farm-prices and labour wages at home must ring a little flat if, and hours, so, apparently, he is along with it, demands for inter-ready to "provide flexible mach- Inational conciliation are constantinery that will enable industries ly answered by heavier and heav-throughout the country to ad- ier armaments. The President's just themselves to better labour Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell conditions." The threat in his Hull, who echoed Mr. Chamber- words is but thinly disguised in lain's appeal for reconsidera- spite of a tone less uncompromis ti n of the arms race folly, clear-ling than had been feared. The ly shares this view. The leaders open battle, if need be, for the of the Great Powers speak to "New Deal" at the coming elec day not to their own

people tions is thus clearly foreshadow- alone but, from a sounding-board. ed. to all the world.

A

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Mr. Eden

Before the ordinary which he recently opened the President in a personally deliver- Greatness is easily discerned ed message made a further at in a Washington, a Guatama tempt to bend. Congress to his Buddha or a Pericles, but it is will He could hardly have not so easily determined in a man omitted a reference to the for- living in the contemporary light. eign situation in view of the Notwithstanding, Mr. Anthony acute crisis in the Far East, but Eden, who has just turned 10, the main subject of his message has something of the gimp of and the chief interest of all—his greatness. hearers lay in insistence on his · Kipling wrote a poem called programme for pursuing the "If?". widely known, not much "New Deal.” The earlier spe- as poetry, but sharply express-

session of Congress, called ing an idea: He after the ordinary session are simply "a mau,

was defining " but he seems to fusal to proceed with the Pre-have defined a great man in the sident's legislation, merely re- line: "If you can keep your> Tel. 21670 produced the earlier critical ob-head when all about you are struction of the President's ing theirs, and blaming it course. Congress to-day, Mr.you Roosevelt has let it be seen, faces Now, this to-day précisely' ap- 8 President as determined as pears to be an Eden trait. There

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Mr.

er pointedly in face of the Con-kindled fear and dread, but gressional elections looming up/man in recent Europe has engen- for November next. It is true/dered as many sneers. that the special session passed Eden in his striving toward twò the President's extensive hous goals: British dominance and ing and crop control bills, but peace. He fails time and again those were referred to a joint in all the Chancelleries, and he committee because of conflicting returns home, and the House of amendments, and in like manner Commons exhibits its genius for the House of Representatives politeness, but he steps up and shelved the Wages and Hours tries again, never rattled, Bill, to which the President in jaded, never beaten.

never