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Washington, May I—The de
velopments resulting from Ger
many's seizure of Denmark, its
invasion of Norway and threats
against Sweden, coupled with the
possibility of the German cap
ture of Holland and with it the
immensely wealthy Dutch East
mdies, have brought the war and
its possible effects upon the
United States back to the fore
front of political discussion.
The United States is not going
to get into or take any part in
this war to save anybody else's
property, under any circum
stances. That can be set down as
fixed and definite. If Germany
and Japan, or either of them, can
seize the Dutch East Indies, the
United States, as official Wash
ington views the situation today,
will not make a move to stop
them.
For that matter, we probably
would not make a move to stop
the seizure of the Philippines by
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Japan. The Philippines asked us
for their freedom and we gave it
to them a few years ago, with
only a few slender strings at
tached. Washington, with its ear
to the ground, does not hear even
a whisper of a public demand
that we ought to go to war with
anybody to save the Philippines.
The same goes for our assum
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who represents any important
body of public sentiment believes
that there is any justification
now or likely to be in the future
for getting into a scrap with
Japan.
Yet the war talk will not down.
It is becoming more apparent ev
ery, day that there is a genuine
war propaganda movement under
way and doing some effective
work in the national capital. Just
why anybody either wants this
country to go to war, or wants to
scare the American people into
the belief that somebody is going
to make war on us is not easy to
see at first glance. It takes a bit
of digging in the inner labyrinth
of politics to find even a plausi
ble reason.
War Talk Originators
There is a belief strongly held
by the most audacious and irre
sponsible group of New Deal fav
orites that if the situation can
be made to look as if this coun
try was in danger, the people will
rise and call upon the only man
who, these war propagandists will
tell them, can possibly save us.
That sort of talk is said to be
very pleasant to Mr. Roosevelt's
ears. - .
It is always flattering to any
head of a Government to be told
that he is the one man who can
save his country. Not all of them
believe it—in fact, most of them
know it isn't so. But it is hard
to avoid looking pleased when
somebody hands you that line of
banana oil.
Many of the shrewd observers
here, who have been saying that
Mr. Roosevelt is inclining again
toward the idea of running for a
third.term, say that those reports
originate with people who have
observed his pleased smile when
such a suggestion is made. Those
better versed in the intricacies of
Administration politics continue
to believe that the President has
made up his mind not to take the
third term nomination which
would be his for the asking.
These same people, however,
are a little concerned with the
war-like tone of his utterances in
regard to possible invasion of the
American sphere of influence in
the Western hemisphere by Ger
many. Some of the veteran ob
servers think that if there was
anything in Mr. Roosevelt's re
marks indicating that he expect
ed or wanted this country to take
part in the war, he had scraped
the excuse pretty thin.
Third-Term Talk Increases
It is noticeable, however, that
third-term talk not only in
Washington but elsewhere
throughout the country began to
increase among Democrats very
shortly after Mr. Dewey had
demonstrated to the Republican
voters and the rest of the coun
try that he would be a mighty
hard man to beat if his party
should nominate him in June.
Washington has stopped refer
ring to Tom Dewey as the "pan
ty-waist" candidate, and is mea
suring his chances with those of
Bob Taft, the only other Repub
lican contestant still out in front.
The undercover skullduggery of
national politics is already at
work to try to kill off both Taft
and Dewey.
None of the "big money In
tel ests" who have financed Presir
dential campaigns in the past,
wants either of these men. Nei
ther will stand hitched or take
orders. So the scheme seems to
be to try to develop a deadlock on
the convention floor, where it will
be impossible for either Dewey or
Taft to get a majority, and the
convention will bo forced to pick
a dark horse. Rather, the idea is
to have the dark horse already
picked and hidden in a stall un
der the convention stage, ready
to be trotted out on a moment's
notice.
That is the time-tried way in
which politics has been played In
the past. Whether it will succeed
this time is another question.
The general run of voters are go
ing to have more to say at this
convention than the machine
politicians and big capitalists.
Dark Horses
Still, however, people are talk
ing of dark horses, of whom at
the moment Wendell L. Willkie,
of Commonwealth & Southern
Power Company, is the best liked.
Nobody questions for a minute
that Mr. Willkie would make a
good President. Most believe that
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The latest bit of Washington
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bearing on Presidential inten
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