Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
The New Deal Does
an About Fuce
By Owen L. Scott.

the New Deal. Inc tnlrQ ROOSEVELT term
will be patterned not on the lines of the
first term of experiment, or the second
term of Supreme Court battling and
pump printing. but on new set of rules.
It is obvious that great change Is
spreading through the Roosevelt admin
istration. Individuals and experiments
that were important, no longer are so
important. Individuals who had been in
the background and ideas that had been
in pigeon holes suddenly are appearing
to dominate the scene. Plans that once
interested Mr.. Roosevelt no longer inter-
est him. Other plans that formerly drew
no presidential attention now occupy the
interest of the White House.
This revolution inside the New Deal
stems from world events and from the
fact that the United States is getting set
to play more important part in those
events. The first two New Deals were
designed as an escape from the world
The third New Deal is to represent the
re-entry of the United States into world
affairs.
The important people in the Washing
ton scene today are not the New Deal
planners of past Importance. The now
important people are very conservative
people-industrialist generals, admirals
and diplomats. Important ideas are not
new ideas, but ideas growing from basic
military and naval and diplomatic poll
icies, ideas that have to be tested in
tug of war with the ideas of other ma
tons
Problems now are not those Of pump
printing or recovery. Armament at home
and war orders from abroad assure that
the pump will be primed to overfowing
and that recovery Is coming. Now the
problem is to get from industry an in
creased speed of production and an ex-
pansion of plant The problem is to pre-
vent boom of activity from being trans
lated into a price and wage boom that
would spell trouble for the future. Pros
perity control. not prosperity creating,
takes on importance.
All of which means that the Tom Cor
corans and Ben Cohens and other idea
men of the past are giving way to new
set of idea men
y
These are the men who conduct secret
missions designed to lay the groundwork
for defense of this hemisphere. They are
the men who study the problems of Brit
aims needs and offer suggestions con-
corning ways that this country can meet
those needs short of war. They are the
men who know the Far East and advise
on the diplomatic, naval and military
steps that must be taken to guard Amer
lean interests. They are men who can
work out ways to fit an aircraft industry
into the slack of the automobile industry
and can figure ways to make two ships
where one was made before.
The idea men of the third term are
to be admirals and generals and diplo-
mates and the William Knudsens and
Edward Stettiniuses. The spokesman
outlining the third term direction is not
a New Dealer, but rather Republican
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
There is every sign that President
Roosevelt welcomes this change of di-
rection and Of emphasis.
Mr. Roosevelt is in position to create
not just domestic New Deal of uncer-
tain strength, but a world New Deal.
In his hand. to be used in the fascinat-
ing game of world diplomacy, is the
power and influence of the worlds
greatest nation. That power and in
fuence are being used to maintain, and,
if need be, to merge the British and
Aroo Thew hainO 1ISpd
to maintain control of the seas for
Britain and the United States; to bind
the nations of this hemisphere into closer
commercial and cultural relations.
If successful in mis- new planning, Mr..
Roosevelt might be able to create world
New Deal that would restore the balance
and the freedoms of the pre-Hitler days
by restoring the basis for a freer ex-
change of goods between the nations of
the world. If unsuccessful, Mr.. Roose-
welt can return to the narrower New
Deals of his first and second terms, and
can enlarge and strengthen those do
nestle New Deals.
The Presidents planning now centers
on the world stage and is concerned only
secondarily with domestic affairs.
New Dealers of the period Just ahead
are Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, William
Bullitt, Stanley Hornbeck and other
guiders of American foreign policy. They
include Henry Morgenthau, whose con.
troll over the American investments of
conquered nations gives him a powerful
weapon in shaping this world New Deal.
Others of the latest New Dealers are
Secretary of War Stimson, Secretary
Knox and Admiral Leahy, who exercises
great influence on naval policy; Gen.
Marshall, who will be responsible for the
new American Army, and Admiral
Greenslade, who watches over the pro-
lection of this Nations hemisphere in
terests
The domestic New Deal that President
Roosevelt built during seven years in
office will continue and may be strength
ened. There certainly is no ground for
business to expect that the Wagner Act
can be taken away from labor, or the
Agricultural Adjustment Act taken away
from the farmers, or that the Wage and
Hour Act may now be repealed. The
grants of power that have been given to
labor and to agriculture, as well as the
guarantees that have been given to old
people are on the books to stay so long
as Mr. Roosevelt is in nouer