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ee i ae sd Fe nn a ee at ST 53 APRAS As Pegler Sees It: Kenneczy Clare's Elder Statesiecn By WESTBROOK PEGLER HE ELDir STATESMAN of the United States and the only real advisor ofthe reigning President is his father, Joseph Patrick” Kennedy. No other con- fidential friend or namedropper since the synthetic office of advisor to presidents was publicized into artificial authority by press agents .and gullible jour- nalists has ever had as much author- ity, nor Joe Kennedy’s shrewd and patriotic intelligence, It would be a kindness to Barney . Baruch just to refrain from apprais- ing his wisdom and his authority with Wilson, Roosevelt and, until the explosion, Truman. er-high to F. D. Roosevelt at best. Joe Kennedy takes President Jack |! Kennedy on his knee, Pas . i PEGLER anlanal fr Ta noanubhtadia did cor;onel trom .exas, undoubtedly we hypnotize Woodrow Wilson, but he overplayed his hand and anyway he was just a cheap adventurer who flagrantly double-crossed and mocked Wilson among the English aristocracy and wound up 4s nothing. True, Frank Roosevelt did pay him homage in a pil- grimage to his home at Magnolia, Mass., after Roose- velt's first nomination, but the little that we have eredihly learned about that meeting amounts to no substantial historical importance, Joe Kennedy bore a partisan loyalty toward Franklin BD. Roosevelt, but, frankly, despised him as all Boston Irish of that generation who pioneered for Irishness at Harvard despised mnost of the aristocracy. There is no doubt that, for whatever value the status may have, Roosevelt was an aristocrat, His wife was, and is, too, and this quality made !t impossible for either of them ever to understand respectable, up- standing Amerleans of Whatever color or to refrain - from trying to patronize us. We were always “the little prople” to those Roosevelts. —e ~ k.. 1 ae i. (eerie Harry Hopkins was only should-, E. M. House, the soap- vwrapper' -ITG0§- A _ Pree Pedy” 197 spp os 196] Ev Malone Rosen Kr | £ Taval Vi Trotter W.C. Su Tele Room Ingram Gandy The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News ‘phe Evening Star New York Herald Tribuns New York Journal-Ametican New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Joumal Date