Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 27, 15 October 1936 — Governor Landon Imposed Upon! [ARTICLE]

Governor Landon Imposed Upon!

Grantēd that Gov. Alf M. Landon's speech at Port-laii-1, Malne, was hastily improvised, there was smaH excust for allowing him to get quite so far out on a limb as his aecusation that President Roosevelt w risked the peaee of the world by his refusal to cooperate" at the World Eeonomie Conference in London in the Summer of 1933. This was one occasion when 01d Ed Howe's admonition to pay the minimum of attehtion to Ws horde of adVisers would have saved the President!al candidate from appearing, even to his supporters, woefully misinformed. īt seēms not so difficult to iietermine by ,whom the •Republican Presidential aspirant was grossly Imposed upon in this instance. example, there is young Mr, Jas. of the great international banking family of ri',rvo, who has been out to Tdpeka, On the strength ■ >r hir been one of a"sizable group of detail men who 'iri anied the Amenean delegation to the London eonf m. i Mr. Warburg subs}equent!y was described by the 01d Ouard newspapers as adviser to President Hoosevelt," and their full page advertkements' of his serial arti< ks and two books pei*haps inaavertently mentloned that the first order from the Republican National Commit~ tee was for 400,000 copies. Later the GOP high eommand distributed millions of them, One of these was ca!led "Hell-Bent for Ēlection," T-.« i iher boiv the distinguishing titīe of "Still Hell-Bent, M ' " l"i«- h y<>ung Mr. Warburg plainly was, inasmuch as he i\t ry policy introduced by Franklin D. Roosew': t,' . i>mbat the depression, of \vhatsoever nature. In r. . 1 i ni.iny rhaptors in ,iuccessfon 5 young Mr. Warburg % :s ,•! . S 1 y.ni the heavy financial advising he was credited !.■> .-i wilh having had available for Presideut K<..n.»se\ elt. There ar<?' perhaps very, very few newspaper readers

or iadio lkteners anywhere, anel especi&lly in the Uniled States, who do not recall the historic message President Roosevelt sent frona the cr.uiser lQdianapolis to the Xjondbn conference. All but Gov. La,fl.don remember his crisp refusal to accept a gold standard 'stabilization plan that had been dished by our creditors on the other side. Their purpose was to tie up American cun*ency to their curr.ency at the very moment that w.e were enacting a wide-spread legislative progr&m to save both agriculture and industry. Yet notwithstanding the fact that tJie President referred to the scheme as "a ahibboleth of so-called inter r national bankers>" there was not at that time any eomplaint frorn those who are ever alert to speak and write for internationalban'kers. Only young Warburg was deeply offended, so mueh so that he took up writing as a profession. Whieh had its cQmpensatory featui:e, for the books that bear 'his name are amusing enough. But how a strong, silenced man who has been nominated by a major party for the Presidency of the United States could possibly use the Warburg line of complaint as an indictment agajinst President Roosevelt for having brought on the unfortunate war clouds in Europe would be difficult of 'explanation, ej:cept upon the hypothesis that, our government shou!d be turned back to the tribe that almost literally wrecked it under the last three Republican adminstrations. That fits. in, with his sudden gold standard telegram tp the Clevelandconvention, althpugh at variance with the ha.rsh names he calling these same international bankers in public speeches only two years ago.