Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-14
Gerald p. Nye
Starts BoomIet
Nv CHARLES p. STEWART


the row over President RooSeVeltS
foreign policy whatever it may
be- Senator Gerald P. Nye OF
North Dakota has had his fair
share Of favorable publicity. Indeed,
one hears him mentioned on Capt.
tol Hill as a 1910 COP White House
possibility He is not yet very Vocl-
ferously so suggested, but he really
does appear to have something OF
a tentative little boomlet simmer
ing.
For one thing the North Dakotan
was a member OF the small group
o. sOlons To- whom Ed" said or
didn't say (Which is which is a
moot point that Uncle Sans from
tier" or first line Of defense is
on the Rhine" or in France or
England or somewhere else on the
opposite SIDE of some ocean.
The presence of the Devils Lake
Iawmaker at this epochal gather
ina has entitled him to more than
the averaze legislators percentage
of audibility in the controversy
which aas followed it. Such Sena-
tors as Alben w. Barkley, Demo-
cratic leader in the upper Congress
sional chamber and Chairman Key
Pittman OF the same chambers for
eign relations committee would de-
lirlously we'll like TO do the Presl-
dents interpreting for him. They
would do it, believe me, in a fash
ion 10 make his utterance sound
plenty popular.
Unluckily however. they were
not included in the small Presiden-
tial audience. They do not know, at
first hand what WAS said. When
Ed" deposes that his remarks
have been deliberately lied" about
they can aver that they do not
doubt it for a minute-but they
were not THERE
On The Job
,Nye WAS.
SO were some other Senators
and some of them corroborate Nye
pretty accurately
Ilustratively. Senator H. Styles
Bridges language is even stronger
than Nyes. Well. Nye and Bridges
are fellow Republicans. Surmlse
that they are in cahoots against
the Democratic administration. Yet
Senator Bennett Champ Clark,
dyed in the-Wool Democrat, in
dorses Nye and Bridges.
Nye and Bridges are not much
closer together politically either,
than are Clark and Bridges or
Clark and Nye.
Nye is a western radical Republi-
can; Bridges an eastern conserya-
tive Hamiltonian. And Clark is a
conservative Democrat; therefore
different from Bridges and Nye,
both.
It is a triangular split.
But it Is triangularly anti-New
Deal
Nye, Though?
Nevertheless. getting back to Ger
aid P Nye
Gerald is the inventor of the
doctrine If Yankee neutrality ANY
WAY.
All earlier eXperimenters have
boosted for the maintenance OF our
neutrality "if possible Hye's neu-
trality law calls fog our neutrality
possible or impossible!
In a queer way, the thing works.
Il does keep us neutral.
Speaking for myself l should not
have been neutral as between Spain
and Spain-Id have been loyalist.
AS between China and Japan I am
100 per cent Chinese.
Nyes game is to MAKE this
country neutral
It's isolationalistic to the nth de-
gree.
Take Your Choice
Senator M. M. Logan of Ken
tucky presents the proposition
compactly:
"A country can live altogether by
itself-regulating its own econo-
mics Or it can live with the world.
il can do it either way"
The administrations plan seems
b be a mixture.
Nye's and Bridges and Clark's is
indiyidualistic.
Logan's is, Take your choice as
you go along
Logan is a pretty prominent Sen