AMERICAN POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 15

AMERICAN POLITICS

Attitude To New Deal Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, August 4. “One of the outstanding features of the political situation iu the United States in the past few months has been a deliberate effort on the part of Republicans, in coalition with Conservative Democrats, to block every major New Deal measure proposed by the Roosevelt Administration,” said Mr. I. F. G. Milner, former Rhodes Scholar, who returned by the Monterey after spending two years in the United States, studying under an American Common wen Ith Fellowship. “There seems to be a definite attempt on the part of some of the major monopoly financial groups to prevent normal investment in industrial plant, with a view -to provoking an economic setback, which will jeopardize the New Deal programme in the 1940 elections. “The elections will be a decisive turning point in American history. There is considerable agitation for President Roosevelt to run for a third term, as the only possible candidate who can keep the Democratic Party together on tin uncompromising New Deal platform. “But whether Roosevelt chooses to stand again or not, the majority of the American people will not tolerate any abandonment of the basic achievements of his administration.”