Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-01-14
PressureGroupsPoinfW Way
10 Mild FasCism in j. 5.
Government by Majority Rule Ceases to
Exist When Various interests Begin
Trading Votes for Concessions.
By BAUKHAGE
Neus Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington. ID. G.


lWNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington. d. G.
AT a recent White House press and
radio conference, the President was
explaining his pre-Christmas remark
that 1t was time to discard the
term New Dear-the remark that
gave the cartoonists SO much fun.
He used a fable about "Old DIR. New
DEAF who had healed the patient OF
I'.internal troubles" (ths depres.
teions). But when the patient had an
Incident and had broken his arms
jand legs. he had to call In his part
ner "Dr. Win-the-War" to heal him.
A correspondent asked: Doesn't
that add up to fourth term declara-
tionl"
!! The President showed his irrita-
don 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 apoiogized.
With the remark that the Questioner
would understand that he had to an
swsr that way.
Two things came 10 my mind at
once. First. that the President was
thinking about the war and postwar
problems. and 10 Be- brought back
10 earth with bump was very much
like being awakened BY IN alarm
clock In the midst Of an interest
ting dream. That was one thing !
thought Of.
Another was Just what the United
States, and the whole world for that
matter, would b suffering from aft
Or he war and what the cure would
-. 4 any.
Recently there have been several
predictions that W were In for q
dose It mild fascism."
Background for Belief
I never took that 10 very seriously
until three news Items were called
% my attention. One was the state
ment that the CLIO committee Of po-
liucal action was planned ~ a nu-
,cleus u Z labor party. That didn't
smell u fasclsm but II had q slightly
leollsctivist aroma.
!; Tha next Nam yas In The London
News Le1&er, ! nNle pamphlet edit
q ~ Commandef Kins-Hall. men,
Der of parliament the contents Of
which are cablsd to Toronto. Can
ada. where Il b printed ~ an Amer
dean edition. King-Hall ID an inde-
pendent In politics with slightly con-
sentative leantngs.
| Here are the excerpts to which I
sefer:
=. 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 THE Future of
Party Politics" written by Com
mander King-Hall in 1887. 1t
( was there argued that a crisis,
| both domestic and international.
was developing and demanding
for its solution high degree Of
national unity In Britain. and
that the political expression Of
that unity. and the instrument
( for making 1t effective must be
= national government )"
In other words, the writer means
~ . national government . CO.
aMtion government such ~ England
Mas now with no opposition--what
amounts to . single party.
The Mood in Britain
And here ID another excerpt,
quotation from q speech In the house
Of commons which the London News
Letter says was given wide meas
ure Of assent"
.. Government must al
ways be by majority but let II
not be by party controversy and
party majority. In this country
at the present time. there seems
to be coming into being a GEN.
trail body Of opinion very well
and adequately represented on
all sides Of this house. 1t Is to
that central body Of opinion that
! should like the government
to appeal In a holder and more
forward-stepping policy :"
This speaker continues his appeal
FOR q single central body Of opin-
ion" and warns against dividing
people tthe British who provide
some bridge between the extreme
capitalism Of the United States and
the extreme collectivism Of Russia"
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