Last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like Newton Diehl Baker the week before, turned thumbs down on the League of Nations. Plain to all now was the fact that Democratic candidates for the Presidency were desperately anxious to let this ghostly old issue lie buried in its political grave throughout 1932.
In 1920 Mr. Roosevelt, then campaigning as his party's vice-presidential nominee, was so thoroughly imbued with Wilsonian idealism that he fervently repeated that U. S. entry into the League was his ''single paramount issue." Last week as Governor of New York he...
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