The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-17


the effect that the financial part
OF the presidents plan doesn't call
for sufficient cuts IT. non-defense
expenditures to Offset, by any ap-
preciable percentage. the enor-
mously increaaing cost OF arma-
ment required fo- Uncle Sans pro-
lection.
There's hardly a dissenting voice,
however. from the thesis that am
pie defensive provisions are imper-
atively required.
There's quite a bit OF objection,
though. to the amount Of aid that
F. D. and his supporters on Capitol
Hill think we ought to extend to
Britain and associated countries,
such as Greece. and maybe Turkey.
possibly an additional Balkan
kingdom or two, and to China.
Several of the directors hold
that we should keep for ourselves
every particle of war material we
can produce. II we get into a war
of our own, sooner or later. they
say Wen need it.
Then there are the strict isola-
tionists, who predict that well
shortly involve ourselves In the
present conflict as a result OF our
policy Of helping the democracies,
meaning at least a couple OF mon
arches, like Britain and Greece, II
they're to be classed as democratic.
The isoaltion bloc would prefer to
have us discontinue whatever help
ing we've already been INDUCING
in. Anyway, they argue vehemently
against an amplifcation Of 1t, as
urged from the White House. In
fact, they express suspicious that
the president deliberately is trying
to edge US gradually into open bel
ngerency.
Leads Isolationists
Probably Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana rates as the
isolationists' leader, just as he was
.eader. in the last congress. OF IN,
light against the presidential plan
to reorganize the federal supreme
court. 1t seems a tribe odd that
Burton, with his Democratic label
and his record as a political radi-
cal, not to say a mere liberal, has
been so prominently identified as
foe OF this couple Of New Deal pro-
grams. considering that the New
Deal also Is officially Democratic
and also has frequently been spok-
en- Of as pretty radical. Neverthe-
less, that's the situation.
And. indeed, some other pretty
good liberals are aligned with Bur-
ton on the isolation proposition.
Senator Arthur Capper Of Kan
sas, Gerald p Nye Of North Da-
kota and Hiram w. Johnson Of Cal
ifornia are 10 per cent isolation
istic. They all have decidedly lib
eral regulations, though F. D. did
say. during the last national cam
paign, that he didn't regard HI
johnson as a progressive. Other
outstanding isolationists are Sena-
tors Bennett Champ Clark Of Mis-
souri,, a decided conservative. and
Arthur H vandenberg of Michi-
gan, not a conservative, but not a
violent liberal either.
It's a queer acknowledgements
and Republicans. conservatives and
liberals. all stirred up together.
Possibly Senator Vandenberg
doesn't call himself an outright iso-
lationist, but he certainly objects
TO lending American war supplies
to Britain His version Is that 1t
wouldn't be loan, but a gift. He
describes the plan as "a subter-
fuge," and says he disapproves Of
subterfuges.
Seeks Peace Conditions
Besides being an isolationist,
Senator Wheeler wants the United
States to get Britain and the Axis
to state their respective peace con-
htlons, with a view to negotiating
a bargain between them. Senator
Willard z. Tydings Of Maryland
wants the same thing. but he isn't
an isolationist, and he's a conserv-
alive. Yet he and Burton agree that
peace might be re-established by
negotiation.
Was there ever so peculiarly
combined an aggregation