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term) into the
full, or total article by endurable
degrees.
presume the situations more or
less the same the country over, but
presidential proclamations' roper
cussions, If any, are first and espe-
cially noticeable in the capital, be-
cause plenty of national and inter-
national notabilities are so imme-
diately available to do the COM
menting.
OF course the full emergency
creates a tenser atmosphere than
the partial kind did. On the partial
basis everybody was asking, win
we get into the war;" Now they're
asking, WHEN will we get in? ?"
This undoubtedly will grow more
and more so.
War interventionists already are
encouraged and ebullient, and iso-
iationists are worse alarmed. Their
rival clamors are bound to increase
in volume and vehemence. AS yet,
though, neither side has developed
a full head Of steam. The president
wasn't quite as bellicose as the In
terventionists had hoped he would
be, nor quite as bellicose as the iso-
lationists had been afraid Of. He
was more bellicose than the isola-
tionists thought he OUGHT to
have been, however.
If anything. isolationistlc critics
are more solid unit than the in
terventionlsts. I'm not contending
that they're more nearly right, but
they're more cohesive.
Disagreed on One Point
They do disagree on one point.
Some say we should try to mediate
between the warning powers Some
say we should remain wholly aloof
from the entire rumpus. But both
groups concur that we shouldn't,
under any circumstances, permit
ourselves to become involved in the
fighting.
The opposite faction (extremists
at least) were exceedingly anxious
to have the president, in his fire.
side chat, get tough. Well, he did,
indeed, sound a warning to the
Axis outfit, as to what We'll do If
they do so-and-so. Yet a warning
wasn't all the Observation-Disclosures
had been yearning for. Their notion
was that the totalitarians needed
an out-and-out oratorical kick In
the pants. There are isolationists
who think that that's what F. D.
actually delivered, but there are
others who maintain that it wasn't
fully pungent enough.
Get tough ?" Tough with
whom? Tough with Herr Hitler
and Slgnor Mussolini and perhaps
with Commissar Stain and posi-
bly, with Japan, wouldn't you sup
pose?
Harry F. Byrd made speech on
the. subject in the senate a few
days before the freside chat was
broadcast. Get toughm was
Harrys speech's motto. Listening
to that speech, until away down al
most to the last paragraph, the i'm
preston hearers naturally abb
sorbed was to the purport that the
Virginia solon was calling for
tcughness toward Hitler, Mussolinl
& Co.
And unquestlonably he did. and
does, favor tough treatment OF the
Axis firm.
But, at the very tail end OF his
remarks, the senator revealed that
the toughness he particularly was
advocating was toughness toward
American labor. AS we know, it's
done bit Of striking, which evil
IDENTIFY has made Harry Byrd des-
perately sore.
The president, In his chat, made
an appeal to labor all right-as to
all Americans. He didn't take a
tough attitude, though.
One Labor Theory
Lots Of enthusiastic intervention
lists in Washington believe he'd
have made a bad mistake II he had.
Their theory is that loyal Ameri-
can labor may have an occasional
legitimate grievance, which it's
perfectly proper and necessary to