Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1939 — Page 5

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New Deal Top Ranks Admit They're Perturbed : Over Split.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer . WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — Evidence of the increasing alarm in top New Deal ranks over the split in the Democratic Party has been brought frankly into the open by one of President Roosevelt’s confidants and staunchest lieutenants, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson. In a speech at the annual banquet of Kansas Democrats at Topeka, which aroused much interest here, Mr. Jackson recognized the seriousness of the party split, said the party was “now camped at its Valley Forge,” and intimated that success in 1940 is jeopardized unless the party pulls itself together. While he appealed for party unity behind the President’s leadership, he made it plain that the terms for unity must in his opinion be a continued hewing to the “liberal” line. He suggested no compromise with “conservatives.” Since Mr. Jackson is a spokesman for the President, this is important. The Democratic Party can be a majority party only as a liberal party, he argued, explaining that when the voters want a reactionary government they do not select a “conservative” Democratic program

and put in power the traditional and proved conservative party, the Republicans. He cited precedents.

Conservatism Rapped

He also contended that if Democrats nominate an out-and-out “conservative” in 1940 they will thereby repudiate the President, and that the party cannot succeed if it does not stand on its record. Mr. Jackson said history shows that a coalition of local leaders cannot produce either a consistent policy or a harmonious one. This was interpreted as striking at the conservative Democrats in Congress who recently have sought to take over leadership from the President and have won some successes with Republican help. On the basis of the Jackson speech, the writer sought the viewpoint of the conservative faction and found that: They regard the New Deal spending policy as the chief line of cleavage with the President, and at least in the Senate, they will line up with Republicans at every oppertanity to cut down the spend-

They expect a bitter fight at the 1940 convention between the “conservative” and New Deal wings of the party and are getting ready for it. They do not expect the President to comprise with them. Some of them already are skeptical of victory in 1940.

Dislikes Drawing Lines

Differences appear also irreconcilable between the stanch New

Into Open

Robert H. Jackson

servative and liberal,” one of the recognized “conservative” leaders explained. “On some things T'm conservative. On some others I'm almost radical. I think you have to take them as you go along.” What was his idea of how the President should proceed?

“Well, after the election, the President should have called Congressional leaders into conference, analyzed the election, and mapped out a legislative program for which the party as a whole could stand. “We've got to stop this spending. We ought to modify some other laws that haven't worked out well. There ought to be more leniency in administration of some of the laws so that business would not be strapped as it is now.

“We should let business know exactly what to expect instead of haying bills shot up suddenly Lhat affect them and keep them nervous and confused.”

Hits President

The President, he held, could still call Congressional leaders together and work out a program, but he doesn’t look for it. “He just doesn’t work that way, we've found out.”

A leader of the New Deal Congressional group denied that spending was the chief issue. The rank and file of voters, he argued, are not as aroused over it as some people in Congress. More fundamental economic issues are involved, in his opinion. :* He thought the President had consulted with Congressional leaders as far as his time permitted. ; He subscribed to Mr. Jackson's idea that the party must follow a constant “liberal” line. There are some on the fringes of the line, he said, who would leave the party if

lit went “strict conservative” or.

“strict liberal,” depending upon their allegiance.

But he thought the Democratic

Dealers and the “conservatives.” ‘ “1 don’t like this talk of con-

Party could continue to hold the great mass vote by a liberal policy.

Raymond Clapper— Bigotry

ASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Even

United States Senators sometimes

act on gossip, which accounts for the action of the Senate Military Affairs Committee in questioning Hugh R. Wilson, American

Ambassador to Germany.

The Senators didn’t get as much they wanted out of Wilson because his rouzh edges were smoothed off long ago through years in the

. diplomatic service. He knows how ' not to give all the answers.

Senators had heard gossip that the Ambassador wasn’t enthusiastic about Roosevelt's decision to call him back from Berlin as a gesture of protest against Nazi outrages against the Jews. The - whispered version lis that Wilson, and for that matter some in the State Department, didn’t think Roosevelt used wisdom. In the trusty old phrase, they were in sympathy with the objective but not with the method.

On the basis of that gossip, the Senators decided to question Wilson. The episode reflects smothered distrust of Roosevelt's recent handling of foreign affairs.

Democrats Fighting

Republicans in both House and Senate have conducted themselves with remarkable restraint. They believe it is smarter politics not to play politics with this issue. Particularly since Democrats are fighting among themselves over it. And also since there are signs of much public opposition around the country. The Republican attitude is that when something is going sour on its own, why not let nature take its own course? Reports coming in from observers around | the country indicate that Roosevelt’s handling of the recent French plane episode actually checked a rising tide of sympathy for Europe’s democcracies., There is strong protest against, the secrecy that was at=tempted Worst of all, instead of clarifying our policy and clarifying his intentions, Roosevelt has only added to the confusion. People are suspicious. Running through all of this is a subject, “avoided in print but

quite frankly discussed -by word

of mouth—anti-Semitism. Rapid growth of this feeling is reported in some localities. The feeling frequently takes the form of a question: “Are we going to fight a war to save the Jews in Germany?”

. Nobody Likes Hitler

In explanation it has been suggested to me by one observer that this phenomenon is not so much actual feeling over Semitism as it is a perverted form of objection to intervention in Europe. Nobody likes Hitler. Nobody wants to defend his regime. We instinctively feel safer with EngJand and France on top than with Germany and Italy. on top. But

the matter on some other ground. We hunt for some reason why we don’t want to become involved. That is, I suspect, an unconscious reason for the growth of racial bigotry in this country at the moment. It is a flight from reality.

SEN. REYNOLDS RAPS PLAN FOR REFUGEES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U..P.).— Sen. Reynolds (D. N. C.), opposing a proposal to permit the entry of 20,000 European refugee children into the United States, today urged a strict immigration ban until unemployment is curtailed. He said college graduates, many of whom attend school through sacrifices made by their parents, are unable to find jobs in a labor market flooded ' because of the past and present immigration policy. The refugee proposal, sponsored by Sen. Wagner (D. N. Y.), is not yet before the Senate for formal consideration.

MOUNTAIN NAMED FOR OWEN WISTER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U. P.). —Secretary of Interior Ickes today had announced that an 11,480-foot peak in the Grand Teton national park, Wyoming, has been designated Mt. Wister in honor of Owen Wister, American novelist who died last July. Mr. Wister long resided on sa homestead near there and the Grand Tetons were the locale of his best-known novel, “The Virginian.”

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