Several prominent Britons got around last week to saying in public what they have long said of President Roosevelt in private.
Despite his Cabinet rank with its implied duty of discretion, President of the
Board of Trade Walter Runciman, one of the Empire's greatest shipping and industrial tycoons, went out to bleak Penzance and told an audience of sturdy Cornish constituents that President Roosevelt's neglect thus far to stabilize the dollar has jeopardized his chances of succeeding with the NRA.
"In the United States," said Mr. Runciman, "President Roosevelt, the greatest autocrat in the...