"Because of his failure to form a New Deal Party President Roosevelt is faced with a complete split in his own party," said Norton E. Long '32, instructor in Government, in the fourteenth weekly Guardian Broadcast last night.
"Roosevelt pushed his radical New Deal program through a Congress directed by conservative Congressmen such as Robinson," Long continued, "and it passed only because of its temporary nature and the immediate pressure of the electorate. He had no real party behind him in Congress."
The current arms program and the attempt to make a major issue out of foreign affairs is merely an effort to find something that will transcend party issues. Roosevelt realizes that he has lost the emergency support that made his first success possible and that if he is to retain control of the party he must appeal on new issues.
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