New York, June 4.
Nine months have yet to pass before the Democratic and Republican Parties hold their primaries to select two presidential candidates, speculation is already rife, especially because the situation is confused in both parties' ranks.
President Roosevelt has not yet given any indication of his intentions: whether he will or will not run for a third term in the White House. And this is the chief cause of the present confusion.
Tradition is against any President presenting hun self for a third term. President Roosevelt's opponents capitalize on this, pointing to the examples set by such great predecessors as Washington and Jefferson, who did not run for third terms.
These political quarters emphasize the danger of a concentration of "personal power" in the hands of a Chief Executive who serves 12 years.
President Roosevelt's supporters point out, however, that he is the only man capable of continuing the New Deal. And they declare that he is the true founder of the United States' present foreign policy.
On the one hand, he bases himself on historical tradition and, on the other, on modern conceptions of the international situation.
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