The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-06-25

tentative which we believe OFFERS a
brighter future to the Japanse.
"The Japanese government may not
see it our way, although certainly
their wisest statesmen do. No one
can say where they will end up. But
nothing has been lost by giving them
time to think it over We are strong
er, relatively, then we were last fall,
and they are weaker.
Those who want us to rush into
acknowledged formal war with Ger
many sometimes forget that the Jap
anese are pledged to make war on us
if we do So They are not pledged
to attack us if Germany or Italy is
the aggressor against us. The diff
ference may be finespun, but it is not
meaningless to a proud people.
"The picture is much too complex
to justify a judgment even by the
next-best informed, as to whether
the president is doing exactly what
is best for our national interest. 1t
can be said only that the extremists
on both sides are dissatisfied, which
means that he is being neither STAN
peded nor hamstrung."
Washington Picture
There are many reasons for the
presidents increased hesitation to act
in foreign affairs. But one of the
most important is the influence of
some of the people who have been
advising him in recent weeks. He
has not been leaning entirely on Mr.
Archibald MacLeish, Mr.. Robert Sher-
wood and Secretary Henry l.. Stimson.
Other people with other views have
been heard. Washington observers
have detected the influence of three
men on current day-to-day policy.
They are Bernard M. Baruch, General
Stanley d. Embick (retired) and Dean
Lloyd K. Garrison of the University
of Wisconsin Law School. These men
have not been seeing him regularly,
but they have been seeing him often
enough to make themselves felt.
Bernard Baruch comes to Washing
ton every week in his private car and
sets up his headquarters at the Hotel
Carlton. He sees a wide variety of
officers of the
army and navy, government admins
traitors, congressman, senators, col
reporters. Then he sees the
president to who he talks about the
production, for the presi-
lent has limitless respect for the opin-
ons of the man who ran the war in
lustries in 1918. Baruch is supposed
10 have been telling him what the
impact of "all out" industrial mobili-
cation on the country would really
be. Baruch's influence is said to be
what has kept the president from
just such mobilization. If
t were ordered, the present priorities
n retrospect might seem like a peace
economy. AS one government econ
)mist put it last week 1--WE won't
'eally be on the way to war until
he president jumps all over the auto
mobile industry"
Everybody knows who Barney
Baruch is, but few recognize the name
If General Embick, who was chief of
staff of the American section of the
supreme war council in France in
1918, and who used to be one of the
lrmy's ablest strategists. He is firmly
opposed to any more adventures
across the Atlantic-or the Pacific. He
ioes not intrude on the president; he
waits for military questions. When
ne has listened to the general for
IN hour, the president has heard the
case for sticking to hemi-
sphere defense in it's most convincing
erms.
Dean Garrison is an old and trusted
riend of the presidents who headed
he National Labor Relations Board in
1874. He has been firmly opposed to
,ur participation in war abroad. The
PRESIDENT has listened attentively to
Dean Garrison's scheme, reported last
week, for the president to take the
for peace now by declaring
peace for the democracies and, in
fleet, daring Hitler to break it. The |
PRESIDENT is believed to be dubious
If the schemes possibilities. One
eason may be that he does not have |
many blue chips left in the interna- |
ional power game. Also, such a move |
would be a pretty abrupt reversal OF
he line the president has been lay |
ng down. Nevertheless, Dean Garri- |
on definitely has the presidents ear. |
lew Order
1t is easy to understand why Dean |
proposal has been framed |
he way it has. 1t obviously is de-
igned to jump the gun on something |
he state department is said to fear |
rom Adolf Hitler. What the depart
nent is looking for this month or next
5 a declaration by Hitler of peace
or the continent of Europe" and a
hallenge to Britain and America to
freak it. Dean Garrison's scheme
axes the play away from Hitler.
II Hitler does issue such a pro-
he is expected to ac-
it with an outline of his
new order" Nobody has the blue
rints, but according to the best in
ormation available, the new order
lay look something like this. Europe
to be organized with Germany as
ne dominant power. But the second
over is not to be Mussolinis Italy
ut Francois a reward for Vichy's
olIa horation In this version France