Dr. Murray Butler Foresees Two Divergent Groups London, July 15. There will be four candidates for president of the United States in 1940, Dr. Murray Butler, president of University, predicted in an exclusive interview with the United Press here. He said there was a distinct possibility that chief executive finally will be elected by the House of Representatives.
"Nineteen-forty is too soon for any clearing of the present fog," Dr. Butler said. "It will be chads, but 1944 should see the rather clear-cut lines of new political forces."
Dr, Butler predicted the finish of the Republican and Democratic pa ties and the evolution of two major parties. The most powerful would be a Liberal-Constitutional party, a combination of present Liberal Republicans and Conservative Democrats, whose purpose would be to accomplish needed reforms within the Constitution, The second party, he said, would be composed of "All reactionaries, radicals and turbulents cpposet to constitutional procedure." ing left Shanghai on April 9 and having completed, according to my speedometer, almost exactly 5,000 miles.
"New Radical" Groups Dr. Butler expected the beginning of a movement in 1940 to name Pre-
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