ROOSEVELT REBUFF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 111, 10 April 1934, Page 2

ROOSEVELT REBUFF.

ARMY OF GHOSTS BEATS AMERICA’S PRESIDENT. WAR VETERANS’ BONUS. Ghosts of war veterans haunted the capital of the United States a few days ago and proved that their spirit is mighty yet. They pointed a grisly finger at Eranklyn Roosevelt. When he failed to heed the warning, they encompassed him about, and dealt him, through the politicians, the first big defeat lie has suffered since bis triumphant ride to victory in the last Presidential elections. Aboard Mr Vincent Astor’s palatial yacht, President Roosevelt visited Nassau, the beautiful seaport of the Bahamas. In British waters he was on holiday until April 6. Reported to be outwardly unworried. President Roosevelt is quietly considering his next move in the tricky game of politics, while he is smarting under the worst rebuke that lias been handed to the President of the United States in a generation. In Washington lie has left behind the most sensational political and administrative tangle since his inauguration. All over America citizens and newspapers' have endeavoured to appraise the seriousness, and the effects of his break with, or his loss of control of, Congress, however it may be viewed. It is not merely a. matter of Congress defiantly adding 228,000,000 dollars in bonuses to war veterans to recovery programme, totalling 7,000,000,000 dollars. It is the rebuff and the reversal of the Presidential ideals that count.

His friends cannot deny that, in suffering this rebuke, President Roosevelt met the same fate which overcame his Republican predecessors, Coolidge and Hoover. They, too, vetoed war veterans’ legislation, only to be overridden by Congress,