Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-29
Lease-Lend
Sure to Win
After Change
Still Chiefs Are Scared
\ Because Of Fan Mail
By PAUL MAIION

Congressional leaders that the
leaSe-lend bill will lose no more
than 20 votes in the Senate and
have a majority of more than
100 in the ffoHse-after its
most Objectionable features are
patched with amendments. This
is what Senate Leader Barley
and Speaker Rayburn have told
the boss. Yet they are scared.
Incoming mail from tn e
people is worrying all their boys
who will vote. Democratic legis-
lators from Missouri and many
parts of the South are disturbed
because they-hape- received so
little. The big opposition names,
Nye. Wheeler. Ham Fish and
Ludlow claim TO be dragging in
the fan approval and APP
parently are.
Then. too. many friends of
the measure are writing in TO in
quire gently if the bill means
war. Popular worry over the
great powers granted the Pres
ident is also evident in the mail
bag.
None of these things now
looks strong enough to upset
the official calculations, but the
Roosevelt counselors have or
dered the time schedule speeded
Hearings held in the Senate
simultaneous with the House,
just to make sure.
/ ETDOWN in explosions, fires,
II and suspected be tage
lately tends to Justify FBI
claims that Hitler does not have
much of wrecking squad in the
United States or is not working
what he has.
You will remember the furry
of suspected sabotage some
months ago was officially at
trihuted TO inefficiencies of OPP
GRAFTON and individual monkey
wrench throwing by Commies
playing the Hitler game.
Either the FBI was right or
Hitler is keeping his boys under
cover until after the lend-lease
debate is over, and the general
impression here is that the FBI
was right.
YOU must have guessed the
L significance behind Mr..
Roosevelt's grand show for Lord
Halifax. II was acted out ac-
cording to prearranged script
for precisely the same world eff
feet that Hitler has been trying
to get by running down TO Bren-
ner every once in while TO
buzz mysteriously with his all
ing ally, Mussolini
COLONEL L1NDBERGH is so
~ thoroughly hated in the adj
ministration that both he and his
acquaintance tried to avoid
meeting old friends in the gov
eminent during his recent trip
here. They AIRED it would
prejudice the positions of gov
eminent workers. One whom he
definitely avoided was Lieut..
Col Truman Smith. army air
officer. whom he knew in Berlin.
MR.. ROOSEVELT is not try
'l ing TO be coy by saying he
knows whom he will appoint to
the Supreme Court. but cannot
let it out for a long time. He
Just invented this little personal
mystery game to keep the
candidates off his neck while he
is engroSSed in defense.
The public was never aware
of il, but some of the recent ap-
pointments were preceded by
inside campaigns as hot as
political ruckus and all the
heat descended on Mr.. Roose-
welt.
The campaign in behalf of
Justice Douglas hit midsummer
emperat urc.. Most of the
stocking was done without his
consent. He was doubtful
whether he wanted the Job. But
bar associations. organizations.
and individuals in all parts of
the country were organized into
wiring.
At that time a counter
campaign was started in behalf
of Circuit Judge Harold Stephens
of Washington, D. c.
WHETHER MIR Roosevelt has
w really made up his mind is
something only he knows.
Echoes around the White House
claim he promised Attorney
General Jackson the next APP
pointment sometime back. Less
pretentious gossip in the New
Deal gives Jackson a definite
promise of the chief justiceship
when Mr.. Hughes retires. prob
ably in June.
The appointment will not
make much difference anyway.
Mr.. RooScVeltS appointments
50 far have given him an un-
Shakable majority not only of
the Supreme Court. but of all
tho subsidiary Circuit Courts
except two Tho judiciary is
IN line.
This Is probably the reason