The Washington times., 1938-08-27


1T sounded like Mr.. Roosevelt
L was sending a sparrow with
a bad cold out to sing for
canary when he dispatched
Charles West to Ohio to stump
for the State ticket. Mr.. Vests
tonsilS have not been right
lately. The acoustics in his
home State also have been par
ticularly bad for him since the
last time he undertook political
opera out there.
Skeptics here surmiSed there
must have been a better reason
than was offered and apparently
there was-a much better one.
Confidentially Mr.. West has
been playing whispering bari
tone for the White House in
Texas, Oklahoma, Washington
State and elsewhere. His in
side mission land this comes
undeniably straight) has not
been to save State tickets, but
to line up State delegations
with an eye toward the 1910
convention. For a third term2
Well, not exactly. Rather for
"the New Deal" which now
seems likely to amount to the
same thing.
The inside clique, therefore.
considers innocuouS dispatch of
Mr.. West to Ohio as the first
direct overt act on the part of
the President toward domina-
ton of the next convention.
DEPUBLICAN National Chair.
~ man John Hamilton may
not have been expressing a mere
political hope when he advised
Republicans to stay out Of Dem
ocratic primaries.
It has not yet been divulged,
but may be, that he had a lit
tie correspondence on that sub
ject with the Georgia Repub-
lican national committeeman,
James w. Arnold, before Arnold
jumped up for Senator George.
Arnold wrote early in August
asking Hamilton for money to
promote a "RepublicanS-for-
George" movement in Georgia.
Hamilton replied the national
committee would not furnish
money for that purpose, and did
not approve such action. He
asked Arnold to drop the idea.
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RI IS getting so a politico can
L hardly tell what is moral
any more. Confusion mas been
accentuated by Mr.. RooSevelt'S
latest diCtum. Not that anyone
diSagrees with it. Everyone can
understand it is immoral TO-.
Republicans to vote in Demo-
cratic primaries, particularly for
the sound reaSon-if no other
that Mr.. RooSevelt's opposition
otherwise might get together
Obviously the only moral thing
to do is to let the New Deal
candidate defeat the opposition
in its own party primary first,
then get votes from its own
Democratic opposition to defeat
the Republican opposition sepa-
rately in the election. It might
not have a majority otherwise.
That makes good moral sense
to a political mind.
But what drives the political
moraliStS dizzy is the fact that
the New Deal candidate in Ne
vada simultaneously announced
what appears 70 be an addition
to the code of morals.
It was published here the same
day that the Hyde Park news
came out. New Deal Candidate
Albert Hilliard was quoted as
saying in a Nevada campaign
speech:
"The President told me on
July 13 that whatever influence
Senator McCarran (purgee) had
in Washington was gone-that
he had made it impossible to
help Nevada through him"
In other words, unless Nevada
defeats McCarran it will not get
any more Federal money.
The moral is plain, even if
the morals are not.
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TRUST 1t or not, competent
l. monetary authorities here
still claim the French are not
going to devalue and no new
monetary dickering is under
way.
The claim sounds reasonable,
despite contrary signs in Europe,
such as the Nazi recall of DR..
Schacht, the Morgenthau con-
ferences. Nazi apprehensions,
etc.
The French will get away
with the 48-hour week, lower
their costs, increase their ex-
ports, thereby easing pressure
on the franc, they say. While
the end Of the tourist season
and the coming of the French
harvest will tax French gold re-
serves, and a new crisis will
come sooner or later, official
opinion here is that Daladler
will weather the difficulties.
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THERE might be something
l. doing on war debts if Great
Britain would agree to lower
that Scent preferential treat
ment given Canadian wheat.
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OECRETTVENESS whicn has