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From the editorial chair of his New Outlook, Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith rumbled: "Today a good many patriotic people, scanning the horizon for the first light of returning prosperity, are trying to figure out whether the flag of the Constitution still waves." Even in England, bumbling Stanley Baldwin made a speech comparing President Roosevelt to Hitler as a dictator: "The ordinary Constitution has certainly broken down in the United States and they are practically under a dictatorship. ... It will be interesting to see what the backwash in America or Germany will be twelve or 18 months hence." Outside official Washington defenders of NRA were few. But in the nation's Republican-bossed, third-largest city, the stout-hearted Philadelphia Record chuckled : "If conservative sources are to be believed, the NRA is so radical that Soviet Russia is taking a chance by extending recognition to the U. S."