Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
BEHIND
The NEWS
BY Paul
MalIon

WASHINGTON. Nov PA
w photographicallyn nosy
weekly magazine is out cur
rently with a yarn that Wash
ington and Congress have be-
gun TO turn against President
Truman: that the Truman pol
icy OF getting good men and
. letting them have their heads
In the cabinet and suh-cablnet
is not working out efficiently
presumably because the men are
not good enough; that the de-
parture Of Judge Rosenman, the
RooSeveluan fxer. and the ar
rival at the presidential right
hand Of George Allen. a fine
democratic fellow, preSages
trouble. that the Republicans
have awakened 10 expectations
ti Ntttt N--tttt II bti..
That is not the way | get II.
Such a picture presents merely
the visible froth of A boiling in
ternal condition of the govern
mcnt: true as far as il pene-
trateS, but not penetrating,
More thorough digging would
reveal the matter something
like this:
4 TREMENDOUS inner strug-
~ gle for direction OF Presi-
dent Truman is going on be-
tween the old Roosevelt crowd
and the party people; II Gibbs
and flows from week 10 week,
day 10 day, and has not been
concluded
The ICkeS Wallace wing in
the cabinet, together with the
old New Deal clique in Con-
greSS, view with alarm the fact
that the Roosevelt policies are
not popular IN the country and
they are inclined to blame Tru-
man When they dare not ex-
press themselves openly they
spread their viewpoint in private
and II reaches print in forms
like The above mentioned maga-
zine story.
II is customary in politics for
parties 10 follow their great
beyond the grave. The Republ-
cans ran on Abraham Lincoln
for more than 30 years. The
RooSeveltian associates would
lt+te-to- -btrit -up political
legend like that for the Demo-
Gratis
TNFORTtNKrELY the times
- today do not flt the RooSe-
Welt labor and spending doc
trlncS which were ContrIVed for
an era Of depression and seem
foolish in postwar era of in
flatlon.
Now Mr.. Truman has fol-
lowed and fought for every one
Of those policies from unem-
ployment insurance and full
employment (while there are
still many more Jobs than
workers. up TO spending (keep-
ing his budget more than double
Roosevelts greatest peacetime
eXpendlture) And he is main
tanning expenditure at a time
when purchasing power is much
too strong for the amount Of
goods available.
He wanted 10 give labor a
tremendous wage increase and
permitted the issue 10 90 10
negotiations only when aSSoCi-
ateS convinced him such boost
would add 10 purchasing power
during the shortage OF goods
and surely bring inflationary
ruin.
Thus he has doggedly stuck
to losing game. the Roosevelt
game, and with normal human
perverSlty the New DealerS
blame him because their pro-
gram failed 10 hold water. He
did not fight enough" they
say.
pOSENMAN has now gone
IL home for the final time,
they also say. tHe worked up
the Roosevelt CIO-labor-Spend-
ing program for TrumanD But
lCkoS, Wallace and the New
Dealers are still around. and,
as for the political angle. Demo-
cratic Chairman Bob Hannegan
IS heavily and exclusively play
ing the Roosevelt game. trying
TO save the Pearl Harbor in
qulry from too much inquiSi-
tlvcncSS, laudlng Mrs. Roose-
welt. etc
Now Congress is scared Of
this which II sees. Congress
faces the polls next year long
before Truman Congressman
are prcpondCrantly against the
program and would take leader
ship openly 10 face the economic
facts of the hour, but they feel
the necessity for political eau
ton They are trimming eN-
pcndlturcS. delaying the CIO
bills but plenty.
TINIIE' worst of the matter iS