Detroit evening times., 1945-08-14
PAUL
NIALLON
Behind
The News

w peculiar uprising Is being
beStirred within the Truman
government.
Although all polls agree the
new presidents popularity IS
greater than the late Mr..
RooseveIts al It's uppermoSt
peak. the remaining arch-New
deal politicos in the Senate are
trying to get backfire or
ganized against him with left
wing labor.
Since the British elections
gave them spiritual inspiration
they no longer conceal their
unhappiness with current
events.
They are beginning 10 issue
warnings, contrive presSureS
and even create forebodlngs of
political disaster.
Up to now they have been
acting with subtle indlrectlon,
as If they did not want to be
caught at 1t.
Now they are more openly
trying a comeback, citing
people who carry tales 10 the
White House know how they
feel.
The trouble is Mr.. Truman
has achieved unity in this coun-
try, and they do not like II. As
one of their self-professed lead
ers expressed it to a newsman:
"Mr. Truman IL for the Roose-
velt philosophy all right, but he
does not fight for 1t. We've got
TO have fighting"
WHAT particular thing they
w want to fight for, they do
not specify or know.
Matters mention are a fairly
complete disclosure of the re-
stricted character OF the move
ment.
The New Dealers are not get
ting their friends appointed TO
federal iudgeships. Mr.. Truman
has been choosing judges for
legal and Democratic party rea-
son, rather than for their zeal
in a socializing way.
Furthermore they take the
cabinet changes as a personal
reflection on the New Deal, al
though every new member is
pro- Roosevelt Democrat.
1t is true the new appolntees
have shown no inclination 10 IN
spire political hates. to fan up
hot, if artificial issues; and hell
raising is an indispensable part
say the New Dealers--of New
Dealism as they understand 1t.
Without mobilization Of press
ure groups, accusations against
the motives of others and at
tacking a disagreeing person AS
a Fascist" or something, like
the Communists do, these peo-
pie think they will lose their
power.
GO prohpesies are being offered
~ in the higher senatorial cir
cles that a New Deal-CIO press
ure movement will force Mr..
Truman to change by fall, and
cause him TO set up some en-
mites Of some kind, to get the
radical vote in the November
congressional elections.
They say he must have "the
IL a hQ
been popular in Britain and
thus there will he A development
known among Rooseveluans as
"a swing 10 the left in the i'm
mediate future.
| doubt II. The New Deal
game is pretty well played out.
These old devices are familiar
10 the people.
They no longer pay much at
tention 10 such things.
Neither Is "the labor vote as
a whole.
Mr.. Roosevelt would not have
won the last election If the ma
ton had not been in the middle
of war.
His radical following would
not have been sufficient to swing
the country
The people Of this country
are just as weary of 13 years
of political hates and synthetic
as the British were of the
conservatives
(Only third Of the new
labor MPs have union member
ship and the bulk of labor's VIC
tory came from middle class,
white collar districts where the
effects of Britains totally weak
position. economically, finan-
Cially. materially and mllltar-
lily. have been feltD
britain is going down; this
ID country is going up.
There was no hope for social
ism in the Canadian elections
almost simultaneous with Brl-
taln'S.
This budding Cooperative
Commonwealth Federation was
eNtlngulshed.
1t elected only one MP, and
he renOunced his party afflla-
tion within two weeks, so now
there is not single Socialist
member of the Canadian Par
lament
Conditions there are more like
ours
Mr. Truman is building up the
Democratic party 10 terrific
power.