Evening star., 1939-08-31
The Political Mill
Presidents Tactics Likely to AIienote
Congress Further on Neutrality Revision

deep resentment among those men,
bers who have been opposed to
tinkering with the present Neu-
trality Act, so deep a resentment
that the administration may be
faced with most strenuous battle
on Capitol Hill.
Critics Unimpressed.
The charge has been made again
and again that the President has
sought to take this country into
the field of power politics" in
Europe. 1t does not make any i'm
preston on the critics of this foreign
policy to tell them that the Presi-
dent believes the best way to pre-
vent war in Europe is for Germany
and Italy, and now Russia, perhaps,
to understand that this country is
in reality backing the democracies
OF Europe. 1t does not make any
impression on them when it is said
that the administration only pro-
poses to take steps short of war"
Any such steps, they argue, are
only the prelude to actual war on
the part OF this country.
II war is averted, the attacks of
the administration on Congress will
not lessen the animosity which has
been growing in recent months on
the part of the legislative branch
toward the Executive. The break
between Congress and the Presi-
dent was demonstrated again and
again before Congress finally ad-
journed. The final demonstration
of this opposition in Congress to
the administration came in the re-
lection of the Presidents lending
spending bill. The President pre-
dicted that this action would bring
a lessening in business. But so far
the trend, apparently, has been for
better business. 1t looks now as
though the fight between Congress,
which believes at last in curtailing
governmental expenditures, and the
President, who believes in continu-
ing the spending program and who
has thrown aside for the time being
all thought of budget balancing,
would be continued into the next
session with unrelenting fury.
The session will be held on the
eve Of national election. Con-
gressional halls will be sounding
board. used by the administration
forces, by the administration Demo-
Gratis who desire to pick the next
Democratic nominee for President,
and by the Republicans who are
anxious to depose the Democrats
and climb ipto the drivers seat.
White Advises Democrats.
In the past certain Democratic
leaders, among them the chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, Jim" Farley, have under
taken to advise the Republicans
whom they should nominate for
their presidential candidate. They
were very free with this kind of
advice in 1886. Now William Allen
White. Republican sage and editor
of the Emporia Gazette, is giving
the Democrats a bit of advice re-
garding their selection of a presi-
Dental nominee in 1910. While Mr..
Farley and other Democrats who
undertook to tell the G.. O. P. whom
it should nominate for President
obviously did so with their tongues
in their cheeks, such is not the case
with Mr.. White. Mr.. White clearly
believes that his candidate for the
Democratic nomination is worthy.
His candidate is Gov. Stark of Mis-
souri,, neighboring State of Mr..
Whites own bailiwick, Kansas. In
an editorial Mr.. White said:
IF Democrats in the United
States are really looking for a