The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-24
Washington
Merry-GO-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT ). ALLEN.

Tee CCONeOeS mere tomorrow WlLlld4u
Edgar Borah will be sitting in his
hotel in Boise. Idaho.
But for all practical purposes. his
stern visage Will be staring over the
shoulder Of each member of the
committee as it is called 70 order
For no other problem facing the
Republican Party. is so acute. 50 vital.
as that of whether Senator BOrah
wants the Republican nomination:
whether he can get it If he does;
and finally. whether he could win
against Franklin Roosevelt in 1886.
If logic were the rule of politics.
the last question should be answered
first. But since politics bows chiefly
before power and selfish interest,
the question which burrows the
broWs OF G. O. P. leaders is not 50
much whether Mr. BOrah could be
elected. but whether he wants the
nomination badly enough to make
them swallow him.
THEY recognize that Senator
L Borah'S stock has been de-
cidedly bulhsh for some time His
boom is the most significant de-
yelopment to date in TIE presiden-
tiaI scramble. WIZ really worries
rival Republican managers is the
fact that the boom is cropping out
in the most orthodox Republican
circles
Most effective behind-the-back
argument used against Mr. Borah is
his age. He will be 70 by the time
he could be inaugTated
To those who know him we'll.
however, Senator Borah shows few
effects of the grueling political grind
Of the past third OF century.
r
A ND whether Old Guard leaders
"A want him or not. Borah is
going to make a fight for It,
Mr. Borah will put up such p
knock down and drag out cam
paign that either he gets the nomi-
nation himself, or else gets the
power to pick the candidate.
Looking around the political hori-
zon, Mr. 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
Note-Senator Borah vows that
he would vote for Mr.. Roosevelt be-
fore he would cast another ballot
for Herbert Hoover.
THE adoption of the SwaStika as
L the official flag OF Nazi Ger
many is causing large signs of re-
lief to at least one individual in
Washington.
He is Stubble- haired Hans Luther,
who occupies the highly unenviable
role of German Ambassador to the
United States.
Before the SWaStika became Ger
many's official emblem, Ambassador
Luther was invited to speak at an
| international ceremony at George
town University The flag Of all ma
tions were to be displayed. AS each
was hauled aloft, it was to be hailed
by blare Of trumpets.
Ambassador Luther, who had got
into some trouble with his govern
ment once before when the swas-
/ tika was not unfurled, had his
counselor telephone in advance to
state that two German flags must
be used-the sWastika and the flag
But Father Edmund A. Walsh,
dean Of the Georgetown Foreign
Service School, demurred. To fly
two German flags. he said. would
attract undue attention and be a
slight to other nations.
IF both flags are not flown"
Counselor Leitner insisted, "the
Ambassador can not come"
Finally Father Walsh hit upon a
compromise solution. He had the
two flags sewn together, back to
back. The audience could see the
flag of the Third Reich. But the
Ambassador, sitting on the platform
facing the audience, could make
sure that he was saluting Hitlers
cherished sWastika.
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