Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Hull Victory Suggests
Changes of Policy
By OiCen L. Scott.

increasingly uncomfortable. They find
| that their ideas carry less and less
weight at the White House
President Roosevelt appears to this
| group of New Deal officials to be COM
| plotting wide swing to the right. 1t is
expected that after this swing there will
be little room at the top for those with
| unorthodox ideas of either domestic or
world reform.
In the latest of his moves the Chief
Executive greatly has strengthened the
! hand of Cordell Hull as Secretary of
State. Mr.. Hull now is undisputed boss
| of the department that more than any
| other, will shape the basis for neace.
| This means that grandiose ideas for
change will not receive support from the
agency that will be charged with for
mulating details of policy. The Secre-
| tary of State is anything but a New
| Dealer.
The new recognition that the White
| House is extending to Mr.. Hull follows
| the official break between Mr. Roosevelt
and Vice President Henry Wallace. Mr.
| Wallace expresses the New Deal view of
the shape that the postwar world should
| take. The President now has taken from
Mr.. Wallace any official power that he
may have had to interfere with Mr.. Hull.
| 1t likewise is known that Mr.. Hull criti-
| cized some of the public expressions
that Sumner Welles had made. The
Secretary of State felt that those express
sions of the Undersecretary went too far
in the direction of radicalism.
All of this means that in the field of
foreign policy, President Roosevelt at
this juncture is going along with Win
ston Churchill and Mr.. Hull, men whose
ideas are very conservative.
That is the most important of the
recent indications of the Presidents at
titude. There are number of other
indications that account for the acute
discomfort of the New Deal group. These
indications, too, tend to multiply rather
than to diminish as time goes by.
President Favors Conservatives.
Mr.. Roosevelt placed Leo Crowley at
the head of the new Office of Economic
Warfare. Mr. Crowley rapidly is trans
forming what had been, under Vice
President Wallace and Milo Perkins, a
haven for New Dealers and an outlet
for expression Of New Deal ideas. DEW
is being geared very closely to the line
of policy laid down by Mr.. Hull. At the
same time, businessman, Chester
Bowles, is taking over actual operation
of the Office of Price Administration and
is bringing businessmen to washington
to fill key positions that had been filled
by New Dealers.
A group of Treasury Department Off
Gals have been promoting some fancy
ideas about taxation that irritated the
conservatives in Congress. Mr.. Roose-
welt approved when Judge Fred Vinson,
as head of the Office of Economic Stabil-
ization, told the Treasury officials to
forget their ideas and to get busy trying
to work out tax plans that Congress
would accept.
The President earlier had made little
real effort to save the Farm Security
Administration In which Mrs. Roosevelt
was deeply interested. He did not save
his National Resources Planning Board.
He has done little more than make sug-
gestions about social security law
change. He has given to Justice James
F. Byrnes, as head of the Office of War
Mobilization, very broad powers over
domestic policy. Justice Byrnes is a
Southern conservative.
Officials who should know say that
there are two detectives that the Presi-
dent is seeking by his present and most
prolonged swing to the right.
Political implications Suggested.
The first of these detectives is to OBJ
tain assurance of a fourth nomination
in 1914, If that appears desirable as
nearly everybody here assumes that it
will. The President is making very
obvious appeal to the Southern Demo-
Gratis who are SO powerful within the
party and within Congress as we'll AL
most all of them are conservatives. They
are men of long experience in national
conventions and their support will assure
that 1914 nomination will not be the
work of amateurs, as was that in 1910.
The second of Mr. Roosevelt's objec-
tives is to secure in Congress a base of
votes that will assure this country's &C
ceptance of the foreign policy and the
peace policy that now is to be so vital.
The President feels that any policy with
which Cordell Hull agrees will carry
great weight in Congress and with the
country. The conservative group will be
far more likely to 60 along with Hull
Endorsed policy than with policy that
might carry New Deal Endorsement.
1t Is notable that both in Great Britain
and here the policy that is likely to gov
ern when war stops almost surely will be
conservative policy. This means that
probably there will be a minimum of in
reference with the property rights and
lines of trade such as prevailed in the
prewar period. Emphasis will be upon
restoring as much as possible of the
status quo with a minimum of revolu-
tionary change. The line of this policy
already is revealed in North Africa and
in italy.
The New Deal group doubts that the
world again can be put together on any,
thing resembling its old lines. This group
is inclining to the idea that once the
war ends and vast problems of re-em-
ployment and rehabilitation are re-
vealed, Mr.. Roosevelt again can swing to
the left with public backing. They think
that their present discomfort then NAV
pass as the President seeks ideas for
meeting difficulties that they see ahead,