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Before 1941. He told in his own words the anecdote which he gave to Correspondent Arthur Krock* fortnight...
...press conference, Correspondent J. Fred Essary of the Baltimore Sun asked the President about the interview he gave to Mr. Krock (TIME, March 8). Looking embarrassed, the President said he would lay his head on the block, asked the newshawks to forgive him because it was the first time in four years he had given one of their number an exclusive story. Because the President was believed to have "inspired" the Krock story, even read its proof, some newshawks wondered whether the "John" of the anecdote should not have been "Arthur." Others suggested it was John Nance Garner, John Bankhead...
What arguments President Roosevelt would muster in two-syllable words for that important appeal were last week foreshadowed by an interview he gave. Arthur Krock, No. 1 Washington correspondent of the New York Times, was admitted to the Presidential presence and given the benefit of a pontifical discussion of the issue by the man most interested. Mr. Krock managed to get one paragraph for quasi-direct quotation ("the President this week has been saying to his friends"): "When I retire to private life on Jan. 20, 1941, I do not want to leave the country in the condition Buchanan left...
...contention was entirely missing from the President's brief as put to Mr. Krock, his original and now badly mangled argument that more and younger judges were needed on the Supreme Court in order to help the Court keep abreast of its work. Of that, apparently, no more will be heard...
...Star Prisoner was their intimate friend and colleague of many a year, Comrade Karl Radek, until recently the No. i writer on foreign affairs of the Stalin official press. It was as if Walter Lippmann or the late Arthur Brisbane or the New York Times's Arthur Krock should be in the dock of the Supreme Court at Washington, about to be rubbed out by the G-men because the President was no longer quite happy about Mr. Krock. Old Bolsheviks- Dictator Stalin is no longer quite happy about the following most eminent Soviet Comrades, in addition to Comrade...