Washington, Nov. 5.
A New Deal triumph in the tions next Tuesday would mean intensification of the "Good Neigh hour" policy toward Latin-America, amplification of the Administrations. defence programme and preferential rela United States and the Philippines, survey of international observers res vealed today.
The Far Eastern situation, however, has not precipitated any clear-cuti_ division of partisan opinion here as popular sympathies appear to be with China. As a result, it is, inex" iti pedient for the Republicans to eritis size the Administration's failure to invoke the Neutrality Act.
Foreign affairs are relatively un- If important factors in the campaign because President Roosevelt in recent. weeks has gained the favour of the. "preparedness" elements through h active rearmament efforts, and simul= taneously disarmed criticism from the. pucifistic groups by his successful. intercession in the European crisis.
The reciprocal trade policy of Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, have been widely but apparently rather ineffectually criticized, chiefly from mid-western agrarian groups where their displeasure is partly offset by the Administmation's recently stimulated farm programme. This Programme, sponsored by Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, includes subsidization of wheat exe Ports and plans for relieving farm commodity surpluses through a two-price system, both operating externe ally and internally.
New England and Pennsylvania, industrial states, are uneasy regarding the terms of the United States-United Kingdom trade pact but political opposition has been allayed by the government's refusal to dise close terms of the projected agreement.
Observers believe that President Roosevelt's sympathy with the Jewish refugee problem will be helpful to. the Democrats in the close New York electoral fight.
In view of the active political at= tention given by the Roosevelt ads ministration to the conflict between Democratic philosophy and totalitarian ideas, any important set-back to New Dealers in the election would tend lo encourage the "isolationists" who do not believe that philosophical contention should be an adjunct general policy.—United Press.
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