The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-21

There was a case Of the kind the
other day. upon announcement OF
CYRUS McCormick's appointment to
specialize on automobile and truck
prices in Leon Henderson's agency
for control, not only Of automobile
vehicles, but OF everything else.
while our present defensive and
lease-lend activities continue.
CYRUS, a grandson Of the reap
ers inventor, undoubtedly is a good
man for the Job. He used to be
works manager OF the nterna-
tional Harvester company, which
makes trucks as well as farm ma
chinery in general, and certainly
knows. in advance, the correct an
swers to the problems he'll have to
deal with as Leon Henderson's aid.
However. during the New Deals
hrst eight years, its domestic OBJ
iectives. and methods of trying to
attain them. had no bitterer critic
than Cy Mccormick. AS Repub-
lican national committeeman, he
strove desperately for Wendell
WILKES election throughout the
last presidential campaign Since
then a lot Of Republicans have
Topped away from Wendell, be-
cause the latter's come out for F.
DIS management Of foreign affairs.
Not Cyrus, though. He indorses the
Hoosier more emphatically than
ever he did, for the very reason
that, on foreign issues, he's pro-
Franklin D.
Backs Foreign Policy
Cy supported lease-lending, too.
He hasn't declared for American
physical participation in the war,
but IL F. D. should decide for it,
the presumption is that Cy would
continue to back him up; he's made
1t clear that he thinks the White
House tenant Is as right concern
ing foreign relations as he consid-
cred him wrong domestically
And Leon Henderson? Leon's
been a 100 per cent New Dealer
all along. He was one Of the high
er-ups in NRA. Cy rated NRA as
awful and included Leon in his de-
nunciations Of it. Now the pair
are associates in price fixing. III
bet Cy would swallow NRA also,
II it were still in existence and
operating in consonance with
toughness Of our attitude Axis
ward.
Well, as previously remarked,
this isn't inconsistent
When the New Deal began get
ting domestically busy, Cyrus, like
quite a few other folk, took the
position that its trend was totali-
tarian-perhaps not as much so as
the Nazis' and Fascists', but
enough so to be alarming. So they
fought it for all they were worth.
They kept 1t up until the war
started. Then, almost overnight,
they evidently arrived at the con-
clusion that it was essential for
them, as F. D. once expressed it,
Ito take first things first" And
their Judgment was that beating
the Axis was entitled to big pri-
ority over opposition to the New
Deal
e.. When the Time Comes
Incidentally, as the wars warmed
Up, the New Deal has been consid-
srably less vociferously New Deal
erish domestically. A few critics,
like Chairman Joseph w. Martin
Of the Republican national commit
tee, maintain that the New Deals
still promoting itself under the
guise OF national defense-that
wen find ourselves under a perma-
nent dictatorship when the emer-
gency passes. But Cyrus thesis is
that that's something we can at
tend to when the time comes,
whereas we'll be under a Dictator
ship land foreign one), anyway.
II the Axis wins
It's at least arguable.
It is a good deal similar to the
Russian situation. The democra-
cies didn't like Communism any
better than they liked the Nails
or the Fascists until Communism
and the Axis got into a war be-
tween themselves. Thereupon the
general democratic verdict became,
The Communists are as bad as
the Axis. but less dangerous in the
long run Let's help the former