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The controversy over the Supreme Court is causing more
newspaper and radio comment than anything else now being con-
sidered. The Tories hope it is the end of Roosevelt. The Reds
hope it is an opening wedge for the general break-down of American
institutions. They are all hopeful of gaining something--they
really don't know what. All the noise means nothing.
For the last four years the President and the Democratic
Party which controls the Congress have been trying to meet a
situation brought about by twelve years of rule by special priv-
ilege and by a short-sighted peace policy pursued after the World
War. Instead of assuming our position as a world power, we ran
from the responsibility, and now one of the "bitter-enders is
telling us that our neutrality policy, recently adopted, is a
farce. Well, so it is, but it is merely a logical conclusion of
our peace policy after the war. We sank our Navy; now, we are
rebuilding it. We lost our foreign markets by a short-sighted
tariff policy. The rest of the world followed our lead in that
tariff policy, and the whole world trade fabric ceased to exist.
Our domestic markets went to smash, and now we are trying to get
them back by trying to adjust wages, hours and labor so some
millions of people can eat who are starving in the midst of
plenty. We pass laws for the purpose, and the third branch of
the Government says that certain i's were not dotted and certain
t's were not crossed, and that the Constitution, in consequence,
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