Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-12
New Deal
Blinds Nation,
Brown Says
Decision on Draft Term
Can Open Eyes
By &. ROCKWELL BROWN

I CONGRESS has been steadily
" hoodwinked by the New Deal
/ for more than eight years.
1T has never learned its lesson
from these repeated hoodwlnk-
IngS.
From the day in midsummer
of 1888 that President Roosevelt
first embarked upon his social
iStic program. Congress has
been led step-by-step 10 a goal
which IT never suspected and
did not understand
The alarming announcement
by the administration that 1t
wants power TO send an army
anywhere in the world and 10
keep the boys with the colors
beyond the year fixed by Con-
greSs represents a typical piece
of New Deal strategy.
When General, Marshall. chief
of staff of the army. appeared
before The House appropria-
tons committee on April IS.
and testified that the national
guard would be sent back home
in September. that the trainees
would he discharged beginning
in November, and that the army
would be reduced, he was speak
ing as soldier, in whom every
one in Congress has the utmost
faith.
Obviously that was General
MarShall'S plan only little
more than two months ago.
SENATOR WHEELER has
- charged that American inter-
national policy is not being de-
termined in Washington, but is
being determined in London by
Joint board of British and
American army and navy Of
ficerS.
If this is true. il means that
The chief OF staff of the army
must alter his plans at the die
tation of the British government,
for 1t may be assumed that If
there is such a joint policy
board in London the Americans
are not making the policy. After
ALL this is Great Britain's war
and it is only natural that she
should determine how it is TO be
+. fought.
But it is not as simple as all
that. 1t will be remembered that
in his third term acceptance
speech 10 the Chicago conven-
ton last July, Mr.. Roosevelt
stressed the point that he had to
accept the. nomination because
he was the commander-in-chief.
There can be little doubt that
President Roosevelt regards him
Self as military genius.
TT Is reasonable 10 assume that
General Roosevelt is outlining
the strategy and making the
policy and that his subordinate,
General Marshall, who is only
chief of staff, has TO change his
plans TO meet the commands OF
his superior officer.
Mr.. RooSeveltS chief adviser
is not an army officer. but a
prominent boondoggler. Mr..
Harry Hopkins helped the PreSi-
dent TO put over much New
Deal legislation
Every time Congress enacted
a law that law made absolutely
inevitable the eventual taking of
some other step.
But Congress could never see
this AZ the time. 1t could not
foresee, for example, that when
IT gave the President lump
sum of S4,SS0 100000 TO spend
as he might see fit. it was laying
the groundwork for other acts
OF congressional qualification
and abdication.
When Congress enacted the
selective service law, il insisted
upon an amendment prohibiting
the sending of soldiers of the
draft army TO fight outside the
Western Hemisphere. The Prcsi-
dent accepted that. But Mr..
1 Roosevelt. although willing 10
bide his time. is never willing TO
abandon an objective.
DOUBTLESS il was foreSeen
~ that when the time came
arguments could he made 10
Justify the repeal of that prohi-
bltlon.
If we are 10 60 TO war soon.
at course the draft army should
be kept IN service. There would
bc no sense on the very eve of
war in diScharglng men who
have had "A years training and
/ IN creating a new army OF raw
material.
Thus the very proposal Ia
keep the draft army and the
national guard with the color>
indefinitely is a clear revelation
of the intent 10 war.
II IS a good thing that this
issue has been presented 10 Con.
gress this week for final deter.
! minatIon At last the war max.
ing branch of government has a
chance TO act
Connolly Answers
la Woodrow Wilson: tb)
Henry Clay; (c) Israel Put.
nan, 1T-E