Evening star., 1943-05-16
PettengiN Ridicu|es
New Deal Thinkers
For GIobaI Planning
Declares Pepper Hopes
To Nominate Roosevelt
For Munkind's President
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
p. RICHMOND, Ind, May 15.-Sam-
uel, B. Pettengill of South Bend,
former Democratic Representative
who has resigned as chairman of
the Republican National Finance
Committee, said tonight that Sen
ator Pepper, Democrat, of Florida
Lives in the hope that he may be
the one to, nominate President
Roosevelt as president of mankind"
Mr.. Pettengill made the state
ment in an address at the 18th
annual Institute of Foreign Affairs
at Earlham College, after he had
declared:
Our global thinkers are plan
ming a World RFC to direct in
vestments wherever impecunious
politicians need money; a World
Commodity Credit Corporation to
hold up the prices of the planet; a
World Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration to pay farmers in five
continents both to grow and not to
grow; (andD world bank to sta
bilize exchanges everywhere
Super -duper BrainstOrms."
After the reference to President
Roosevelt as president of man.
kind" Mr.. Pettengill continued:
These super-duper brainstorms
for managing mankind should be
contrasted with our cowardice to go
at home; with the chopping off of
one head after another in Wash
ington in search for brains and
courage to run a single bureau in a
single department of a single gov
ernment; with the constant clash of
one bureaucrat with another; with
the failure to plan for rubber at a
one and all; with the scrapping of
the London Economic Conference;
with the debacle at Pearl Harbor.
with the abandonment of the
recent magic of the four freedoms
with respect 10 India, Latvia, Es-
tonia and Lithuania: with our
amazing ignorance of American his
tory when we talk of inStructing
250,000,000 Germans, Dutch, Ital-
ians, Rumanians, Bulgarians, etc;
with national debt which by July
of next year will exceed the value
of our entire capital wealth; with
our cringing pressure groups, with
John L. Lewis practically defying
the same Government with which
our planners plan to make the
world behave.
"Napoleonic Halucinations."
1--WE are the victims of Napoleonic
halucinations. the same disease
which Alexander had when he
looked abroad for more worlds to
conquer while his whole empire
crumbled beneath his feet.
Some day we will wake from
our trance. cut our suit to the cloth
and hitch our wagon to horse. We
had a president once who said, 1T
is discovery of what we cannot
do and ought not to attempt that
changes reformers into statesmen.
For myself, I confess without
shame that I love my country more
than I love humanity"
DR.. Edwin Borchard, professor
OF law at Yale University Law
School, told the institute that "the
economic approach to international
relations, in spite of all obstacles
created by history and politics, seems
the most promising and the most
intelligent"
DR.. Ricardo J. Alfaro. former
president of Panama, said the Good
Neighbor policy ''is something deep
er and more significant and far
reaching than the popular concep-
ton of it. 1t is reversal of the
whole system of relations based on
the idea of the superiority of the
United States
d. Ricardo credited President
Coolidge and his Secretary of State,
Frank B. Kellogg, with laying the
foundation for the policy and
added:
"Franklin D. Roosevelt has sue
ceeded in great part due to the ef-
forts of Cordell Hull, Secretary Of
State"