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...this truce U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson contributed not only his initials but a friendly statement: "I believe that the agreement means an early return to normality. Both parties are to be congratulated on their forbearance...
Like a Hardy heroine the Democratic Party stumbles on from distress to disaster. In a crisis it decided to cooperate with the Republican administration. Relief measures were jointly planned and passed under the protection of the white flag, but now the truce has been broken by Republicans, and the Democrats feel extremely hurt by the ingratitude. But so trapped in the web of events has the Democratic Party become that it can do nothing more than complain of betrayal. If Mr. Garner and his cohorts refuse further support to the Hoover Administration, they draw upon their heads blame for prolonging...
...Steagall bill (see p.11). Democrats are hard at work upping taxes, cutting expenses to balance the budget. But when Republican politicians like Mr. Jahncke claim all the credit for these relief measures, Speaker Garner gets fighting mad. Warned he: "It's well enough to talk of a political truce but let me tell you that the kind of truce we intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with President Hoover on Government re-organization for economy's sake. Instead...
...delighted," remarked President Hoover when he heard that the House had at last tackled re-organization of the Federal machine. But he still believed, he added, that his method of blanket executive authority was better. President Hoover, personally inclined to keep the spirit of the truce and to claim no political credit for his relief measures, has shown more co-operation with the Democratic majority of the House than have the members of his Cabinet. Last week Democrats were able to point accusing fingers at Secretary of War Hurley,- Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur...
...Truce? Peace proposals by Japan have kept pace with the Japanese Shanghai drive from the day it was launched, each Japanese bombardment being accompanied by a Japanese proposal that the Chinese peacefully withdraw. Suddenly last week Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, was able to inform the League of Nations Council at Geneva that on the British flagship in Shanghai harbor Chinese and Japanese representatives had met, talked for two hours, and agreed "in principle" upon terms of Japanese and Chinese withdrawal from the Shanghai area...