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Though to many a stanch Republican Henry Agard Wallace is a fire-breathing radical, he thinks of himself as a "middleaged, middle-course" person. New Frontiers, written with enthusiastic garrulity, is an argumentatively factual account-rendered of his stewardship so far, his hopes, plans for the future. He believes the new social machinery, such as AAA, "just as important" as the invention of the automobile. Chief objective of U. S. government in the next ten years, says he, should be "so to manage the tariff, and the money system, to control railroad interest rates; and to encourage price and production...
...There was no one else whom sad-eyed, colorless President Albert Lebrun could call to the Premiership in the bloody days of last winter when le peuple seemed rising against a Government hopelessly corrupt. Last week beloved Gaston Doumergue went to the microphone and gave an accounting of his stewardship as Premier in the last six fateful months...
Political Rupture. Thus Premier Doumergue went before the people on the general record of his stewardship, which is undeniably good. He left up in the air the specific failure of his Cabinet to clear up the Stavisky scandal which is still in the dawdling hands of its Parliamentary Committee. Convinced that le peuple blame chiefly the Committee and not himself, Gastounet left the microphone to begin his summer vacation. Next evening as he was about to catch the sleeping car for his wife's estate near Toulouse the Stavisky scandal blew up in Committee and excited Cabinet Ministers came...
...Stewardship. Little notice has been taken abroad of Premier Doumergue's manifold stewardship. In the realm of diplomacy his Government has all but isolated Germany, won Russia's strong support and obtained the backing of Britain and Italy for the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July 23). When Premier Doumergue took office France was embroiled in bitter tariff and quota disputes with Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. Now all of these have been ironed out by trade treaties. Only in arming France has Gastounet been extravagant. He has forced through supplemental appropriations of over three billion francs...
Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes reported to the Senate on his stewardship of $3,300,000,000 which had been given him last July to help put the country back to work. The last of PWA's vast bankroll, said Administrator Ickes, had been allotted in February. Without soliciting another application for loans or gifts Administrator Ickes declared he could distribute a second three billion from the surplus supply of pleas already in his office. Observing the number of jobs made by public works, the Senate was not at all sure that this was the most practical...