Motives ** Borah aM sala:
I motives. ! "Senator, we will get you yet."
The only reason the Roosevelt-Hull, Borah returned the president's
poker team Invited payment in goods smile, saying:
is because the British had insisted "I think you've had too much of
they could not transfer money. Messrs. me already."
Roosevelt and Hull did not intend j ~ -1
that their call of that bluff should | Portent. |
be taken as seriously as it was. The _h . t *,-»,.„ ,. , '
newspapers picked that news idea out ™at terse Change was the frothy
of a single sentence in the body of whitecap of a strong conflict of po-
the Hull note and made headlines out lltlcal undercurrents.
of it.
Mr. Borah has not announced i
Mr. Roosevelt was so perturbed that yet- but he is going to hie himself to
Ms spokesmen suggested to newsmen *»» hustings during the summer. He
they were overplaying the suggestion. wUl speak a few pieces about the
The WMte House hinted that it was NRA> AAA> et al, and, when Mr.
not by any means an important fea- Borah speaks his piece, it will be in
ture of the note. the manner of a new deal valedictory.
r , He has far more invitations than he,
1 Hopes. will be able to fill, but he will fill)
It ' enough of them to make a loud na-
There are economists in the state tional noise.
department who believe that, within r r '
a. year or two, when world trade rela- Trick.
tions geV somewhere near normal, L— — — ; '
transfers may be worked out on the Y°u ca" cancel the statement re-
basis of paying goods. It is, of course, «»J* fmad* .'" ^Td th.a, ™ e
ridiculous to think that any substan- «J» ofT»■» £*&*?** M\ bl' J*°:
tial portion of the debts could be paid »"• Itk,lled that bl" a" ri^t. but
that wav or anv other the crafty congressmen found an-
Yo'u can however' readilv see other way of getting private loans for
poker tame. some of Mr Rooseve)t.s advisers went
!-pn v I through the housing bill and found
'-'"■ ■•■'■ J that the principles of the dead bill
Of all the progressives, Senatoi No. 2817 had been incorporated i:
Borah has been most skeptical of the J1 fact> they had been expanded. Un-
v deal. He even shies away from
der S. B. 2817 the criminal code
going to the White House whenevei wou!d have been amended i
possible, an has refused to get tiec Sress«ien could borrow only from the
up with the administration, even ir ?OLC and the PCA. Under the hous-
the indirect was i 5*ve re- ln& Provision they can borrow from
publicans have been tied up. any governmental agency
For that reason Mr Roosevell The trlck has the makings of a
,wi™,rt rirr;a»L7™Z *irst class scandal in it because of
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