Evening star., 1936-05-27
ROOSEvELT-MOLEY
: BREACH WIDENING
Split Traces Back to Failure
of President to Use
Astor's Yacht.
BY CARLISLE BARGERON.

The split between Or. Raymond
Moley and Mr.. Roosevelt emphasized
In a speech by the former ace brain
truster in New York last night, traces
back to the Presidents failure to use
Vincent Astor's yacht, Nourmahal. for
his fishing trip this Spring, 1t is
learned authoritatively.
Moley, in his speech. warned" the
President that the radicals may "use
the political power that his moderate
reforms provided in the earlier and
more popular days of. his administra-
tion to destroy moderation and to de-
stroy the very system we attempted
to improve" Moley also denounced
the "orgies Of public castigation"
which Mr.. Roosevelt has permitted in
his administration.
Split Apparent Recently.
The split between the former ace
brain truster and Mr.. Roosevelt be-
came apparent a couple of weeks ago
when the former, in Astor's magazine,
Today, strongly denounced the ad-
ministration's tax measure. 1t was
widely commented upon at the time,
but Mr.. Roosevelt sought to deny 1t
by inviting Moley to take week end
cruise with him. At the same time,
Charlie Nicholson, Democratic pub
licity director, in the column which
he distributes to the country news
papers, cited the instance as an ex-
ample of Just how little Mr.. Roosevelt S
Journalistic critics knew. The Presi-
dent liked men of conflicting views,
wrote Charlie, presumably at the in
stance of Mr.. Roosevelt, as they are
In frequent conference nowadays, and
particularly were men Of conflicting
views helpful in the early days Of the
Legislative program" of the New Deal.
Mr.. Roosevelt discarded far more of
his brain trusts ideas than he ac-
cepted, Charlie wrote.
- But after last nights attack it was
not expected that any pretense of
cordiality between Mr.. Roosevelt and
Dr. Moley would be attempted.
Astor was considered to have rem
dered a valuable contribution to the
1882 Democratic campaign when, in
a public statement, he said he was a
srich man who was not afraid of Mr.
Roosevelt. This was in answer to the
Republican cries of alarm.
- Yacht Put at Disposal.
- Then. when Mr.. Roosevelt came in,
the yacht Nourmahal was placed at
his disposal and he made use of it.
This was somewhat reassuring to rich
men who recalled that Mr.. Roosevelt
after all was an aristocrat.
', AS time wore on, however, and de-
nunciations of the rich" and "in-
'trenched greed" became pronounced
In the New Deal vocabulary, men who
had gone to school with Mr.. Roosevelt
who had associated with him all o1
their lives, who had been his com.
panions, were amazed. The attitude
of this crowd was graphically ex.
pressed in a banner which the Yale
boys carried in last years foot bal
game with Harvard. 1t read: "Roose-
sa.yelt went to Harvard
4 The intense feeling of this crowo
against Mr. Roosevelt was sought te
he analyzed in an article in a ma
0tionally known magazine several week!
ago. 1t recited that it was utterly i'm
possible to attend social gathering
in New York or Palm Beach that epi'
thets were not applied to Mr.. Roose'
'velt in the first few minutes. It's con.
fclusion was that these people felt thai
zone Of their own station in life hac
betrayed them by encouraging the de-
snunciation that was being heapeo
upon thear heads. They were used tc
1t from people who did not know them
the article reasoned, but for a man
who had associated with them all Their
lives to be party to the campaign
was beyond their ability to under
stand.
Pressure on Astor.
Astor. it is recalled, established his
magazine to support the President and
he has been under constant pressure
from his friends. Upon every possible
occasion he would be pressed as to why
he supported a man who talked
"about his own class" the way Mr.
Roosevelt did.
Astor, however, was impressed with
what he called the Presidents social
rnindedness.
But he is said to have been most
unfavorably impressed when the
President did not make use of his
yacht the last time he went fishing
of Florida, and newspapers explained
that it was because the campaign was
coming on. Up until this time, it is
pointed out, Moley would buy only
stroies favorable to the New Deal for
his magazine. although like Secretary
of Commerce Roper, he did try to
Steer Mr.. Roosevelt along conserva-
tive lines and develop business support
for him.
Astor. 1t is understood, has re-
luctantly come to accept the feeling
Of his crowd" against Mr.. Roosevelt