Evening star., 1932-07-26
GERMANY FAVORS
C. 0. P. CANDIDATE
Moratorium Wins Support for
Hoover, but Roosevelt Is
Unknown Quantity.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July 26.-Germany has not
been too busy with Lausanne and her
own internal troubles to pay a
good deal of attention TO the American
presidential race.
Dwellers in the Fatherland have been
told over the radio what manner of
man Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is, and
how he compares with Mr.. Hoover,
whose name is, of course, familiar to
every child in Germany.
The broadcaster, Prof Ernst Jaeckh
of the High School for Politics, was
careful tc t2ld the balance even, but
he expressed the opil-ion that as far as
Germany was concerned, continuity of
the Hoover policy would be a desirable
contingency.
To Mr.. Hoover belongs the record of
being the first and only chief of state
who made definite move to help Ger
many out of the mire. What Germany
can expect of Gov. Roosevelt if he sue
Ceeds Mr.. Hoover is the question that
occupies the German mind.
Prohibition is not a live issue in this
country Of Gambrinus and the joyous
drinking song, but there is no lack OF
articles in the serious German press
from correspondents in America putting
arguments for and against the eight
eenth amendment with reasonable fair
ness One argument that appeals to
her is the claim that a repeal of pro-
hibition would go far to relieve unem-
ployment in the United States.
Like the Name Roosevelt.
Much more interest is felt in Ger
many in the future foreign policy of
the United States, especially as affect
ing the tangled legacies of the World
War.
The name Roosevelt has a pleasing
sound here, but Germans feel they
know Mr. Hoover better. Says the
Cologne Gazette:
Speaking as European, one might
wish that in the next few months
Mr.. Hoover would reveal himself in
still greater measure as the true leader
of his people He will find the nation
ready to follow him on new paths, even
on tariff reductions and the war debts,
If it be shown the right way.
The President has already twice
given mankind hopes of healing this
sick world when proclaiming the repair
ationS holiday and again when he set
forth his disarmament plan.
''Truely, President Hoover is the man
of the hour-may the hour not call in
vainl"
Roosevelt Conceded Chance.
The Conservative Kreuz-Zettung
thinks Gov. Roosevelt has fair chance
of winning
mfr. Hoover, even if reelected will
have to proceed very warily," this paper
says, referring to anti-Hoover currents
in Congress, land how he proposes to
govern in the eventuality of Demo-
cratic majority in both Houses, is
dark question"
Gov. Roosevelt is as yet an unwritten
page" comments the Reichsbote. favor
1te organ of the ex-Kaiser's family. 1T
was a tremendous act of President
Hoover's to take the personal initiative
to stem and mitigate the world Geo.
nonic collapse with truly construc-
tive idea That proved him to be a
statesman of caliber, which we hon.
estly cannot say Gov. Roosevelt ap-
prosches.
yet it seems scapegoat there must
be-" the monarchist paper continues,
land it is quite within the bounds of
possibility that Gov Roosevelt may be
the next occupant of the White House.
Unfortunately, this would happen
just at a time when the United States
must assume the leading role among the
nations of the earth, and when the
crying need is for a great personality
az lCS mead.
"We must hope that reason viii pre-
vail and that Mr.. Hooy n will be in a
position to continue his trlsty and sin
cere endeavors"
In the opinion of the Deutsche
Tageszeitung, a Rightist organ. Gov
Roosevelt repeats Rehoboam's threat
my father chastised you with whips,
but will cha5tise you with scorpions"
The paper uses this phrase in connec-
ton with the fact, open with regard to
an abatement of the war debts. Gov
Roosevelt has definitely declared against
env remission whatsoever.
1t is very plain that Germany con-
tinues to pin her hopes to Americas
generosity in a final adjustment of the
war burdens problem