Will shortly be There are many commentators who adopted a more cynical view and who felt that when they attribute the President's peace move to domestic politics they were not so much propounding a theory as stating a fact. They considered that, since foreign politics was going to be one of the main issues of the coming campaign, and since there was a danger that the President might be criticized for being war-minded and likely to lead the country into war, it was held necessary by the party strategists to make some gesture which would prevent this criticism from being damaging. Mr. Roosevelt could hardly be accused of war-mindedness if the most prominent features of his foreign policy were his efforts to find a basis for world peace. stocked by all first class watchmakers and department stores.
It is quite likely that many of the people in touch with the President who urged him to make some peace move were thinking consciously or unconsciously of its political effects. If they owed their appointments and their positions to the existence of a New Deal Administration, they would naturally like to see such an Administration in exist-
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