The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
Cummings, Not Corcoran-C Cohen. "BraintruSted"
 F. D. R.'S Court
 Packing" Plan


 Washington, Aug. l4-Week after week, usually in magazines and sel- dom by newspaper correspondents who know better--those aides Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen have been accused of matching the plan to pack the Supreme Court.
 Corcoran and Cohen, according to their friends, don't appreciate the accusation. They heard about the plan when they read about 1t In the newspapers,
 But the man who gets good and sore About those reports Is Attor- ney General Homer s. Cum rilngs, the shrewd Connecticut Yankee. who actually sold thc six.new- judges plan Co Roosevelt and who is still very proud of that achievement, insisting that his proposal was the most feas. lble of alL He wrote most of the presidential messages on lt, In collaboration with his friend Don. ald Richberg.
 Roosevelt asked several people for recommendations. Corcoran and Cohen were among them and they conservatively suggested Q constitutional amendment that would give Congress 6 veto power over the court similar to tho one the President has over Congress. RooseveltS preference for the Gum mings proposal rather ruined the Idea that corcoran and Cohen were his pet brain trusters.
 
 Third Term Poll
 "The progressive" 6 weekly de- scribing itself as "LaFollette's Ma. gaSine," the president of which Is Senator Bob LaFollette and the secretary Gov. Phil LaFollette, both of Wisconsin, has started a poll reaching various states on the is- sue whether Franklin D. Roosevelt should seek b third term.
 The question Is. What was In the minds Of the LaFolictte boys, who are now allied with ROose. welt and stand out as potential third party leaders, when they started this polle
 Assuming that either Bob or Phil or both should have ie40 ambi- tionS, why should either or both sponsor Q poll which might well demonstrate-and may, in view of first returnS-that their closest followers preferred RooSeveitp
 Another possible assumption is that the LAF0llette brothers may actually prefer Co back Roosevelt At the next election, feeling that he is the best hope of the pro. Kreeslves, After oil, Governor Benson of Minnesota, closely al. lied with the LaF0llottes. has done so, and 70 has Governor Earle of Pennsylvania.
 The LaFollette brothers sailed down tho river with tho President on his yacht shortly before their poll began. So far none of those who were on the yacht on that trip have repeated a single thing that was said. For shamel German Loan Cut
 ft b rather generally understood here now that Belgian Premier Van zeeiand's visit Co Washington had as It's chief objective a loan for Hitler's Germany.
 What Isn't so generally known is the extent Go which interested nations, including the British geys ernmenps leadership. have been pceved because Vfvj Zceland failed Co impress even the eie. vAtop boys at the treasury.
 Van 2eoland was asked by tho British government to offer Brit- aims enthusiastic help in calling c world economic. e.armamen@ con. ference if tho United States would sponsor that German loan. Pre- mior Neville Chamberlain had gathered tho idoa from Germany that she would try to Dc nice in European politics If she got the loan.
 Chamberlain, according to re. liable reports, was no end unified when Van Zeeland reported that he hadn't even had a nlbble over here. Chamberlain became sour at Roosevelt and e0ntemptu0us toward Van Zeeland.
 Subsequently there has been con- siderable talk among British and other statesmen as to some kind Of A conference which would put the United States on tho spot and would Do sure to make Germany happy. This government appears to Dc hop to the scheme and is taking every precaution against bo- ing pushed into . sucker role,