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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938.
CHINA'S "FRIENDLY"
ENEMY
at
Will Roosevelt be President
third time?
a
--that's what people are asking as the President America. By pumping once more startles millions into a new public works programme,
he puts a new spring into world trade.
HEN
George
ton 'came
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 Mrs. 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
crabby gage on his third trip to the
Washing- White House, how much more, he doesn't run again, say those father's liaison officer, is so es- 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 President coups, isms, dictatorships. America's first
run Has not this man Roosevelt, back, and then there will be real the Navy.
or Com- they begged him to
this "awful demagogue," shown danger of Fascism again.
must stay Angry at attacks from the already ambitions that call for muniam. New Dealism is no perfect wife, is afraid for her news-letters, homesick for the an American Brutus? Has he danger. It
the road · to
sense of
Mrs. Roosevelt, above all &
with husband to renew his lease on the White House. If the Pre- sident were any one else he
ROOSEVELT is himself would be a permanent invalid.
he has
are
WILL Roosevelt do it again if he does run
It all depends. for the Presidency?
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
word, by Government
outwardly against a
As it is he tries to do as much Washington declined, retired to the
meddling and restriction?
third term. Inwardly Mount Vernon to die.
physically as he does mentally, Does he not threaten the very already made up his mind to ac- It has aged him already (com- Time has woven a beautiful, but quite unconfirmable, legend life of the great corporations, cept the 1940 nomination when pare a photograph of 1932 and one of to-day), and another term around that half-selfish decision. Any American to-day will tell built by the pioneering enter it is offered him.
Like Washington, he is angry may affect his health.
Party chiefs will also advise at the newspapers for blaming you that the father of his coun- prise of the few, by taxation and try refused a third term because Nazi-flavoured anti-trust laws? he was afraid too much power
Is not the Tennessee Valley him for the business recession. Roosevelt to step aside, even if
from the wings. They would turn even the most honest
Authority, Government-operated Unlike Washington, he wants to he still controls his successor Great Britain deeply deplores men's eyes towards a crown.
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, Rooseveltian homesick for the lush acres of will take advantage of the third- term legend to vote against him. captured Chinese soldiers by the America's only--and therefore most cherished--tradition. No Japanese attacking force
President may run for a third Fascism? Does not the New his Hyde Park estate.
Deal employ a propaganda Unlike Washington, he honest- Amoy, according to à British term of office.
"Ministry" of 236 Press agents ly believes America needs him Wireless despatch. And, in spite
Will Franklin Delano Roose-
Germany's Professor him. of the Japanese denials that any velt break the rules, do what all just as efficient and danger more than the cornfields need
Goebbels? such things occurred, there is Ulysses Grant tried and failed as
Roosevelt sees a real danger of
New York's raspy-voiced little man Roosevelt is Fascism or Communism in Ame-
mayor, Florello LaGuardia, bound to be a strong reaction to do, what Theodore Roosevelt
Yes, this was afraid to do, what Calvin.
from City against the nation which is Coolidge did not: choose to do- dangerous, say those who aske rica if his carefully planned would like to move
abandoned. course is
Hall to the White House. He making war upon China on the accept the nomination he will the questions apprehensively. Of middle 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. munism and making it possible he does, will he be re-elected?
If he decides to run against Unless we of the upper crust that the patient won't buy to CO- for friendly Chinese
Americans are asking them- can unite to beat him, New twice, but he wants to force an-
prevent operate with Tokyo in exploitingselves those two questions. Dealism will take its place on other bottle down the patient's the world's totalitarian map, al throat to prove that in the long
Roosevelt from being elected. the republic. For unfortunately
SOME ask those ques- ready stamped with Fascism's run it is a real cure.
Moreover he thinks his medi-
In his smashing-victory-over. for Japan, all the denials and
tions apprehensively. black, Nazism's brown, Com-"
cine might do the world at large Governor Alf Mossman Landon excuses which can be made will If Washington was afraid a man munism's red. not remove the conviction that might slip a crown into his lug-
Others ask those questions some good. While his name is in 1936 Roosevelt polled 27,- he 000,000 votes against Landon's the present war is being pro-
anxiously. What is going to still in the world's mind
Roosevelt was the largest in his- secuted
war happen to us if Roosevelt doesn't wants to do something to bring 17,000,000. The landslide for with a ruthlessness waging this undeclared
run again? they ask. Roosevelt the world peace and security. parallel to that displayed by the steadfastly maintaining that she brought us out of the wood that
He wants to follow his "big tory, and so it can be assumed that the opposition's vote was most bare-faced conquerors of has only the welfare of China Hoover let grow wild. Roose stick" navy programme through its rock-bottom.
The opposition would, there- 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
fore, presumably poll at least the of little avail against eye-cultivate the friendship of the weren't any he created them.
Не stopped child labour,
same number of votes. La- witnesses tales of atrocities. Chinese people. The first Japan-
sweat-shops. He stopped banks THERE will be opposi Guardia would take a lot of Ja- The story of the massacre of ese to make this assertion may closing their doors more often
tion to his accepting a bour votes away from Roosevelt in the vitally important eastern civilians rounded up following have been sincere; but latterly, than opening them.
third term nomination. bomb-throwing incident in the eyes of foreign observers
He stopped the rot in Wall-
First against it will be his States. which killed seven Japanese on of Far Eastern events, the ex-street. He closed the back door wife, Eleanor, and that is more the Amoy Bund, and the sub-
cuse has become a mockery of of the White House to string important than it sounds to any |sequent slaughter of more than truth. There can no longer be pulling economic royalists. He one who has not tried to cross made America a better place to an American woman with her
mind made up. 100 of these prisoners, has pot-any doubt about Japan's aims live in. sibly not yet been circulated in in China. There can no longer be Britain. The official protest only much doubt but that the pro-] concerned the alleged shooting mises of "an
open door"
the
are
see success
theories.
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
they
of that.
are
The ghastly and inhuman the execution of scores who must have been innocent of any practices of the fighting men bad enough; crime-except, perhaps, that in Spain
may have been cloac 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 is invaded, their homes destroyed.
and each side is determined to utterly destroy the other. There 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 continue to wreck clvilian homes and hos- you newspapers attack the Japanese for their pitals and churches. There is al treatment of their enemies, certain almost admirable de- when the same sort of thing is flance in the attitude of both towards third powers happening in Europe and doesn't sides cause half the pother?" There which are allies of neither. But, are several reasons: and the probably more than any other least important Is the feeling
renson, the nearness of the out-
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for his economic
Roosevelt in 1940 he will not be elected, but he may
In those States splitting of the vote between Roosevelt and La Guardia would, under America's complicated electoral system, give victory to the opposition.
confident-his Roosevelt is enemies say, conceited-enough
By Lichty to think he could still win.
bere; fellas-nos ain't got anybody
IF 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 news-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.
CVR. Thompson
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