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...intention had Franklin Roosevelt of entrusting the politically vital drafting of his farm policy to even this restricted parliament of farmers. The job of the farm leaders would be to ratify the program worked out by his New Deal experts. Secretary Wallace, Chester Davis and their aides had just three days to draft such a program while the farm leaders were assembling. Each had a pet plan and the others spent their time pointing out the legal and economic flaws in his proposals...
...fleshed out, but the skeleton idea had taken form. The farm leaders marched in on Secretary Wallace. Edward O'Neal, Farm Bureau glad hander, spoofed them and slapped their backs to get them in good humor. After a brief session with Secretary Wallace, the farm leaders retired to draft a plan. Meanwhile, at a press conference President Roosevelt outlined the plan which the farm leaders were about to draft. Export subsidies were unthinkable, he explained, because, "We must avoid any national policy which will result in shipping our soil fertility to foreign nations." Conservation of the soil must...
...discovering that the Capitalists have a new peace up their sleeves. Last week Genevieve was afraid the Capitalists were about to persuade Emperor Haile Selassie to become the arch-peacemaker with the assistance of King Leopold of Belgium. The Belgian Government was to propose at Geneva that the League draft a new plan similar to but less obvious than the Hoare-Laval Deal, while public opinion is distracted by sending a League mission to Ethiopia at Italy's request "for the announced purpose of investigating methods...
...State Department's fear that an inflexible act would provoke wars in which the U. S. might be involved. Such a deadlock promised to inflame the peace passions of the U. S. Last week the National Peace Conference, a confederation of 30 peace propaganda societies, helpfully offered a draft for a new Neutrality Act. It would give the President not only orders to embargo exports of arms but also optional authority to embargo exports of all materials essential to war. More important, it would give the President power to lift embargoes in favor of nations which are the victims...
...closeted with Premier Pierre Laval and the permanent experts who make British and French foreign policy, Sir Robert Vansittart and M. Alexis Leger, plus their sub-experts on Ethiopia, Mr. Maurice Peterson and Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. The tension and excitement were terrific. Upon the table lay in draft form on crisp sheets "The Deal...