Ever since Wendell Willkie returned from the Far East burning with advice and criticism for the Administration (TIME, Nov. 2), political insiders have known that he and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were at the parting of the ways. Last week the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond put the open secret into printwith a sage analysis of the causes and likely effects.
Said White House Correspondent Drummond:
"The 75-minute conference which the two had at the White House on the afternoon of Mr. Willkie's return from his trip [helped create] the strain. There were few...