The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-24


 For no other problem facing the republican party is so acute, so vital as that of whe- ther Senator BOrah wants the republican nomination; whe- ther he can get 1t If he does; and finally, whether he could win against Franklin ROose. welt in 1936.
 If logic were the rule of pol. itics the last question should be answered first. But since poli- tics bows chiefly before power and selfish interest, the question which furrows the brows of gop leaders is not so much whether Borah could be elected, but whether he wants the nom- ination badly enough to make them swallow him.
 BOrah Boom
 They recognize that Borah's stock has been decidely bullish for some time. His boom Is the most significant development to date in the presidential scram- ble. What really worries rival republican managers is the fact that the boom is cropping out in the most orthodox republican circles.
 Applause for the Idaho Sena- tor in the radical northwest causes Old Guard E. o. D. lead CTS no loss of sleep. But when Borah flor president club in Los Angeles aid halls him as the defender of the Constitution against the "vagaries of New Dealism"-that's different. BOrah's Age
 Most effective behind the back argument used against Borah is his age. He will be 73 by the time he could be inaugurated. No other president has been elected this late in life.
 To those who know him well, however, Borah shows few ef- fects of the grueling political grind of the past third of century. His daily horseback rides probably were the best in- Vestment he ever made in his life.
 And whether Old Guard lead CTS want him or not, Borah Is going to make a fight for it.
 The strategy he mapped out to friends before leaving Washing ton was this:
 Borah will put up such . knock down and-drag.Out campaign that either he gets the nomination himself, or else gets the power to pick the candidate.
 Looking around the political horizon, Borah has seen all too clearly that he holds the key power in the republican party. He can pick a Progressive and try to force him upon the old Guard leaders, or he can insist on the nomination himself.
 He says now, that he does not care which. But unless he is far different from most men, he will aim for the latter.
 NOte-Borah vows that he would vote for Roosevelt be- fore he would cast another bal- lot for Herbert Hoover.
 GERMAN FLAG
 The adoption of the swastika as the official flag of Nazi Ger many is causing large sighs of relief to at least one individual in Washington.
 He is stubble-halred Hans Luther, who occupies the high ly uDenviab:e role of German AnlbassadOr to the United States.
 Before the Swastika became Germany's official emblem, Ann bassador Luther was invited to speak at at an international ceremony at Georgetown Uni- versity. The flags of all nations were to be displayed. As each was hauled aloft, it was to be hailed by a blare of trumpets.
 Ambassador Luther, who had got into some trouble with his government once before when the Bwastika was not unfurled, had his counselor telephone in advance to state that two Ger man flags must be uHed---the SwastIka and the flag republic.
 But Father Edmund A. Walsh, Dean of the Georgetown Foreign Service school. demurred. To fly two German flngH. he said, would attract undue attention and nc a slight to other nntions.
 "If botii flngs are not fiowns"