NEW DEAL REVOLT?

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 3

NEW DEAL REVOLT?

WORLD=WIDE REPERCUSSIONS POSSIBLE POSITION OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. PARTISANSHIP PROMINENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, February 16. “President Roosevelt’s New Deal faces revolt all down the line which is so serious that it can no longer be ignored,” ‘says the “Christian Science Monitor’s” Washington correspondent. “The revolt may have international repercussions of a most far-reaching nature. “The opposition is already so strong that even the obvious matter of postwar planning is opposed simply because the Administration favours it. Partisanship will possibly defeat the new international order or the League of Nations as it did in 1919. “People in Washington believe that if the elections were held tomorrow a Republican landslide would result. They point to a significant series of recent legislative defeats of the Administration such as the Flynn nomination, of the limitation of salaries to 25,000 dollars, and the cancellation of the free mailing privilege for Government officers,” the correspondent says. “These typical instances illustrate that the Administration no longer controls Congress. The control is now vested in the Republicans plus the conservative southern Democrats, while the New Dealers are in a minority third group.” The New York “Herald-Tribune” says that the Administration has suffered a further severe setback today when the House Appropriations Subcommittee rejected President Roosevelt’s request for 100,000,000 dollars designed to increase food production by a subsidy for crops. The correspondent explains that the sub-committee’s move is part of the farm bloc’s effort to put through its own programme to raise all agricultural prices which, according to the estimates for the Department of Agriculture, would increase the nation’s food and clothing costs by at least 7,500,000,000 dollars annually.