The Archive · 1940

Presidency Stated

Taft Chance for U.S — Relative of Family Says — Opportunity Good

Tokyo, Apr. 22.

Another Taft may occupy the presidential seatvin the White House as an outcome of the November elections, Mr. David G. Taft, grand nephew of the late President William Howard Taft, said here today. Mr. Taft arrived here on Thursday.

Expressing the belief that his second cousin, Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican Representative from Ohio, may stand a good chance of election in the event that President Roosevelt rys for a third term, Mr. Taft re-ked that a "dictatorship-freight-America" would continue to rf Main its traditional taboo against Presidential terms for one man inthe coming election.—Domei.

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