GUIDING POWER

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1933, Page 2

GUIDING POWER

MR. ROOSEVELT’S : 'POLICY.' * INFLUENCE OF PROFESSOR) jj; -.. " WASHINGTON, May &4. Everywhere one goes in Washington, folk are discussing President Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust,” headed by Pro- f fessor Raymond Moley, nominally As-sistant-Secretary of State. • -People who have business with the Government declare that he is more Secretary, of State - than Mr Cordell Hull, and more Secretf ry to the Trtasury than Mr Woodin. Everyone wants to know what the “Brain Trust” is doing and what it will do next, whether it is true that it is ruling the country behind the White House throne, and whether it has really changed America’s Government to a constitutional dictatorship, and especially whether the objective is Fascism, Communism or what. These are not merely theoretical questions. ■ They are questions about which people are demanding answers. Official Washington has been rent asunder by the advent of the “professoriat.” Either one is for the “Brain Trust” or . against ," it. . Either ione . , points with ’ pride to a new deal, }■ ; sprung full-panoplied from the brain ■ of the. “professoriat,” or one. views with alarm the dictatorship. A* The “Brain Trust” completely overshadows Cabinet. Newspaper report-

ers are quick to consult these professors, knowing . that each probably .. has on his hip to-day the draft of a bill that will become the Roosevelt*. : programme‘to-morrow. Professor Moley is a square-shoulder-ed pinkish-cheeked man with greying brown hair on a high-domed head. He Z* 3 occupies a great suite of offices with a bevy of fine-looking women secretaries, including an honours student from one of his science classes in Barn- ]• ard College?/' where" he still goes once weekly to lecture. Professor Moley is admittedly the President’s closest adviser.. He it was who conceived th© Constitutional Dicta- . torship. He took 'America off the erold standard, and it is his plan to stabilise .; currencies at the World Economic Conference. / .; Mr Roosevelt will hot attend the London conference, but Professor ?< Moley will. i )