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TRUMBY Speech of Senator Truman on the is Supreme Court Controxersly "COPY 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. It gives them all something to talk about. (Lathor Coughlin, the West Virginia Baby, William Ran- dolph Hearst, Jim Reed and all the rest haven't had such a good time since last September Dont 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 Tory rule and by a short-sighted peace policy after the World War. Instead of assuming our position as a world the power, we ran from/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, which he helped to bring about. We sank our Navy; now, we are building it again. We lost our foreign markets, and our own went to smash; now, we are trying to get them back and are 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