Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29

PEGLER noas To - LoS
lived, Johnson probably would be
less tolerant of their mischief to-
day.
He was, first and last, a patriot.
although he had a juvenile streak
which moved him to go traipsing
after the pied piper who was going
to cure everything by conquering
fear and who flattered him by Sc
lecting him to administer the Fas-
cist TJRA.
But neither did the rest Of the
people nor even the sOurest
skeptics in Washington quite ap-
preCiate the sinister nature Of
Frankfurter's silent process Of
penetration.
We learned on authority early this
summer in the memoirs of Harold
Ickes that Frankfurter did not wait
for distinction to come to him but
went campaigning for a Job on the
supreme court in time when pOlit-
ical and theological prejudices were
to be substituted more and more
for law. HIS REPUTATION WAS
SYNTHETIC AND ALMOST EN-
TIRELY THE RESULT OF PUB
LICITY AND POSTURING ON
NOISY ISSUES.
Dc. Long ago, Theo-
''S''' dore Roosevelt had
of called him to time
HorUord charging him with
willful failure to dis
close material truth in the Bisbee
deportation case. He had a great
claque at Harvard and he got the
benefit of Harvard's ancient pres
tige in day before that prestige
had been turned into sordid notori-
ETY. by the disclosures of the Thom-
as committee on un-American ac-
tivities.
Actually, Frankfurter was coarse.
mysterious and superficial, and I
have interviewed one former mem
Der Of his class who would say that
he taught more lawyer-craft than
law. He would say so if he had to.
But, for the time being, he would
prefer not to because he is a gov
ernment employee and, with good
ground, afraid that he would be
fired for antagonizing Frankfurter's
hidden power.
Ickes wrote that he learned, on
the inside Of the seething conspir-
acy which Roosevelt substituted for
government, that Frankfurter was
lobbying Roosevelt for a Job on the
supreme court. There was no false
modeSty in him. He wanted that
place and the power that went with
it.
And, Ickes further disclosed,
it was Frankfurter who chose
for secretary of war, and put
him over, Henry L. StimsOn,
Frankfurter's old boss In the
u. S. attorneys office In New
York. Mr.. StimsOn was an
amenable old man who went
along with the great plan to de-
mOlish Hitler and save Stain
and Russia before the United
States tackled the only enemy
which had attacked the United
CR1Ang
Dill Alger Hiss was one
FIontea of Frankfurter's hap-
as py hot dogs from
Advisor Harvard law school.
He is a precOciouS
study-boy with the supersonic intel.
lect who was too precious to be left
out in the rain to catch cold in the
war. He rose to such power in the
state department that when the dod.
dering and dying Roosevelt went
to Yalta in February, 1945. to sign
over the future of Europe and Asia
and probably of the United States
to the Kremlin, Hiss was at his side.
Hiss was only 40 years old then
and as nimble and 1.-the a physical
specimen as you would be likely
to. find at his age and still more
nimble and tricky in his mind. His
testimony before the Thomas com.
mittee discloses a crafty, scheming
trained to parry and
give an i0DrpSSiOO Of CaDdoy. ,,,.1
truth to the gullible layman who is
used to open dealing.
Not only was Hiss chosen to 90
10 Yalta as state department ad-
wiser to the dying President Of
he United States, but later he was
planted at San Francisco for the
opening of the mournful career Of
he United Nations.