The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-01-20
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. c.


AT a recent White House press and
radio conference, the President was
explaining his pre-Christmas remark
that it was time to discard the
term New Deal the remark that
gave the cartoonists so much fun.
He used fable about "Old DR.. New
DEAL who had healed the patient OF
internal troubles (the depres-
sions). But when the patient had an
accident and had broken his arms
and legs, he had to call in his part
ner "Dr. Win-the-W War to heal him.
A correspondent asked Doesn't
that add up to a fourth. term declara-
tom"
The President showed his irrita-
ton in his answer. He SAID that
that hadn't been under discussion,
that the question was picayune.
Then he caught himself, leaned
back, half smiled. half apologized,
with the remark that the questloner
would understand that he had to an
sWer that way
Two things came to my mind at
once. First, that the President was
thinking about the war and postwar
problems, and to be brought back
to earth with bump was very much
like being awakened by an alarm
clock in the midst of an interest
ing dream. That. was one thing
thought of.
Another was just what the United
States, and the whole world for that
matter, would be suffering from aft
er the war and what the cure would
be, if any.
Recently there have been severa
predictions that we were IN TOR
dose Of mild fascism. :
BACKGROUND for Belief
never took that SO very seriously
until three news items were calico
to my attention. One was the state
ment that the Clio committee OF pc
| litical action was planned as a MI
cleus OF labor party. That didn'
smell of fascism but it had slight,
collectivist aroma.
The next item was in the Londol
News Letter, little pamphlet edit
ed by Commander King-Hall, mem
Der of parliament, the contents 9
which are cabled to Toronto, Car
ada, where it is printed as an Amer
lean edition. King-Hall Is an indie
pendent in politics with slightly cor
1 sentative leanings.
Here are the excerpts to which
refer.
g. There are many indi-
cations at what might be called
the lower levels of domestic
practice, that there are forces
and tendencies at work in Brit
ain which are going to produce
great changes in our political
system. Some of these changes
were foreshadoWed in a pam
phlet entitled 1.-THE Future Of
Party Politics" written by Com
mander King Hall in 1887. It
was there argued that crisis,
both domestic and international,
was developing and demanding
! for its solution a high degree OF
national unity in Britain, and
that the political expression OF
that unity, and the instrument
for making it effective must be
! a national government 80
II In other words, the writer mea
: by a national government a {
: alition government such as Englal
Z has now with no opposition-Wh
= amounts to a single party.
81 The Mood in Britain
: And here is another excerpt,
7 quotation from a speech in the hou
: of commons which the London Ne
: Letter says was given wide me;
: ure of assent =
: I" Government must al
: ways be by majority but let i
: not be by party controversy ane
: party majority. In this country
. at the present time, there seems
. to, be. coming into being a cen
! trail body of opinion very vel
= and adequately represented OF
: all sides of this house. It is t
: that central body of opinion tina
: I should like the government
! to appeal in holder and NOR
! forward-stepping policy 4
/. This speaker continues his app
: for a single central body OF or
: ion' and warns against dividing
: people (the BRITISH who prov
: some bridge between the extre
: capitalism Of the United States
= the extreme collectivism OF Russi