First Inauguration Under 20th Amendment: War Debts and Trade Agreements Linked wont Oun Owy Conesgoxoexr Washington, Nov. 15, President Roosevelt's "programme for the next four years exists at present only in vague and general outline, Countless suggestions are being made by his advisors and submitted to the White House, and stories leak into the press that one or another of these schemes has been decided upon, but the truth appears to be that the President is in no hurry. Congress does not meet till "the third day of January" under the terms of the 20th amendment; this year since the third falls on.a Sunday will meet on the fourth, The President will not be inaugurated tilt January 20, and will It is expected, withald the details of his programme NIL after that date, 'Much of the current discussion has hinged' pon whether the President will be liberal or conservative, when ther he will turn right or left. 'The President himself deprecates the use of these terms. 'To talk of govern~ ment polley in terms of right and left, he once said, is sophomoric, and not' even college sophomoric" but high school sophomoric, He considers that each policy he adopts should be judged by its intrinsic worth, for that is what leads him to adopt it, not because it fits in with some pre-conceived governmental philosophy.
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