Evening star., 1935-07-07
Roosevelt Nav
Restate Aims
of New Deal.
STRATEGY OF
TALKS MAPPED
PresidentExpected
toCarry HisC
to People.
BY ERNEST X. LINDLEY,

When-or lf-CongreSS ad1ournS
President Roosevelt is expected to take
his case to the country in a series OF
major speeches-perhaps from three
to six in number
The consensus of his chief aides is
that the work of his administration
so far and his obiectives need restate-
ment at greater length than a single
"fireside" radio talk will permit. Mr.
Roosevelt already has accepted tenta-
tive speaking engagements for late
August and September. The present
plan is to make these the occasion
for major utterances, covering the
main points of his program. If Con-
gress adjourns in time for him tc
make his projected visit to the Sar
Diego Exposition in September. al
lease two or three of these speeches
will be made at various points across
the continent
AS TO the desirable tone for his
speeches, there is some difference OF
opinion in the upper reaches of the
New Deal. One trend of thought ia
vors StalWart reiteration of the lib
eral aspects of the New Deal. spiced
with militant criticisms of its prin-
cipal opposing interests. Another
trend favors tone of general reas-
surance. arising from a clear state
ment that the major legislative
framework of the New Deal has been
completed-assuming that Congress
completes the must" program now
before it. A third trend favors laying
the basis for broad constitutional is
sue next year-taking cognizance OF
the possibility that the Supreme Court
will cling to its obiter dicta in the
Schechter case and declare other i'm
portant New Deal laws unconstitu-
tional during the coming Winter.
President Silent.
The President has kept his own
counsel, and it is anticipated that the
tone of his speeches will depend large
ly on what Congress does or does not
do before adjourning and what he
senses the temper of the country to
be by late Summer or early Autumn
His insistence upon the enactment OF
all proposed major legislation at this
session is attributed by his close as
sociates to his desire to be able to say
that his program, in the large, has
been completed and that he will have
no important new recommendations
m the domestic field to make to the
1895 Congress. This, in the view OF
many of his close friends, would 90
far to clear the air of uncertainties
and encourage business men to GO
ahead.
Some of the Presidents liberal sup
porters fear that if he goes too far in
trying to reaSSure business he will ex-
pose himself again to the danger of
an effective liberal or radical third
party movement. They point out that
his efforts to strike truce" with
bankers and business leaders last Fall
was failure and that it imperileo
his political position. They feel that
so long as he stands where he stands
now there is no chance of the forma-
ton of an effective third party move
ment on the left. For the last sew
eral weeks, the Presidents chief politi-
cal advisers, regardless of their own
personal tendencies, have been in sub
stantial agreement that he could much
better afford to lose some of the right
wing Democrats than to lose the sup
port of the liberals in both parties.
Recovery Aid Advised.
On the other hand. the President S
chief aides of all political tinges have
been agreed for months that he should
try to facilitate the upward trend of
(See STRATEGY, Page A.