Mr. Roosevelt's Prospects The American election campaign is working up
to its last feverish stages. In less than a fortnight the world will know whether Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Landon is to be President of the United States for the next four years. All the omens still point to Mr. Roosevelt's success—in spite of the fact that one or two "straw votes" have gone against him. The last week has witnessed one or two not unimportant returns to the Democratic fold, Mr. James Warburg, one of the President's former economic &Nisei% and Mr. • Dean Acheson, a former Under-Secretary to the Treasury, having both decided to vote for Mr. Roosevelt, in spite of the fact that certain points in his policy have alienated them from him. On the other hand, Mr. J. W. Davis, a former Democratic candidate and now a Wall Street lawyer, has gone Republican. Mr. Landon is going west in an attempt to capture California, but even if he succeeds the President should have enough States behind him to carry him comfortably home. The Democratic organisers are satisfied of that, and there seems to be good reason for their optimism. Mr. Roosevelt's per- sonality is his best asset, and the fact that Mr. Landon has had to shed a good deal of his original liberalism will drive many of his potential supporters into the Roosevelt camp.
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