AMERICAN ATTITUDE
TWO MAIN CURRENTS OF FEELING. “It seems to me that there are two currents of feeling abroad in America and in the world which neither party can afford to overlook in the campaign ahead. The first swept Hoover out and Roosevelt in. It accounted for the immense popularity of Townsend, on a. national scale,- of Sinclair in California, and of Long in Louisiana. It explains Blum in France. It is distrust—the people’s distrust, not so much of the laws under which they have lived, or the economic system of which they have been a part, but of those in positions of power, public and private. It is a rebellion against long-established tutelage and direction. Given a ballot, people have voted against things. The second current which must be watched, understood land appraised is a drift away from reform, a desire to abandon many of the economic cures that have been brought forward, as worse than the disease.”— Raymond Moley in “To-day,” New York,
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 2
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