FACING REVOLT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 40, 17 February 1943, Page 3

FACING REVOLT

AMERICAN NEW DEAL

Republicans Now Virtually Control Congress

Rec. 10.30. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. President Roosevelt's New Deal faces a revolt all down the line, which is so serious that it can no longer be ignored, says the Christian Science Monitor Washington correspondent. The revolt may have international repercussions of -most, far-reaching nature. Opposition"' is already so strong that even the obvious matter of post-war planning is opposed simply because the Administration favours it. Partisanship will possibly defeat the New International Order or League of Nations similar to that of 1919. Washington circles believe that, if elections were held to-morrow, a Republican landslide would foe the result. They point out a significant series of recent Administration's legislative defeats, such as theFlynn nomination, the limitation of salaries to 25,000 dollars and the cancellation of free mailing privilege for Government officers. These are typical instances which illustrate that the Administration no lcnger controls Congress. Its control is now vested in the Republicans, plus the conservative southern Democrats, while the New Dealers are in the minority' as a third group. The New York Herald-Tribune says that the Administration suffered a further severe setback to-day when the House of Representatives Appropriations sub-Committee rejected President Roosevelt's request for 100,000,000 dollars, designed to increase food production by a subsidy for crops.

GREEKS AT SALONIKA

EVACUATED BY GERMANS

Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 16. Morocco radio reports that the Germans have evacuated 25,000 Greeks from Salonika.