Ever since Franklin Roosevelt began lopping off one New Deal head after the other, professional liberals have viewed his shift to the right with bewildered alarm. Last week the New Republic's intellectual George Soule, who is known in liberal circles for his antiseptic aloofness, quietly dissected Franklin Roosevelt's recent behavior, pointed toward some cool conclusions. Wrote dispassionate Pundit Soule:
"President Roosevelt . . . will long be celebrated as the leader under whom the period of reform known as the New Deal was carried through, and who saw, many months before the people as a whole, the necessity of defeating...
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