Third-Term Insurance
Sirs:
Is it possible to insure with Lloyd's against the re-election of President Roosevelt for a third term? Or are stories of such insurance being available just propaganda?
If such insurance is being written, what is the rate percent?
FREDERICK MILLER Fort Worth, Tex.
>Lloyd's "are not quoting for this particular risk at the present time."—ED.
Ex-Presidents
Sirs:
Let us start a movement to lay the spectre of "third termites" and at the same time conserve our best brain power and secure for ourselves a foreign policy with continuity.
Here is how:
No President shall serve more than two terms. All living ex-Presidents and all Supreme Court Justices over 70 shall automatically become members of a foreign policy board, for life, to advise the incumbent President on and to help administer the foreign policy of the U. S. A., especially during campaign years and while administrations are changing.
These men would presumably be above "Politics." Mature men with mellowed wisdom who could guide the U. S. ably and firmly. At the present time the best abilities of these men are not devoted to the common good to the extent that they could be. Example: Our own good Herbert Hoover.
M. AXELROD Cleveland, Ohio
In Bogotá
Sirs:
. . . Propaganda floods in to Bogotá from Berlin daily in three languages . . . there is no mistaking that the German people are on the crest of the wave and full of themselves —they're exactly like a college with an unbeatable football team. . . .
From America's point of view we are insane to think that the time to oppose the Germans—if we ever are going to—is when they land armed forces in this hemisphere. If things go on as they have been for the last three years, the Germans will never have to land a man. Even Napoleon had to admit, in the end, that ideas are all-powerful, and the ideas of Nazidom are penetrating throughout South America. They have the prestige of success, and the democracies offer —well, what do they offer? . . .
Anyone who has ever studied biology must realize that peace is a purely human concept, and that nature is rather partial to the idea of struggle and competition, and that it is doubtful whether Congressman Ludlow can reverse this state of things by a Constitutional amendment, or that our college students help matters much by refusing to join the R.O.T.C. . . .
A position of leadership in the world in the past has always entailed the premature burial of numbers of the nation's young men, and nobody deplores this trend more strongly than I do. The only question is this: are there other things which are worse? I think there are. . . .