National Affairs: Routine

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His international performances last week (see above) obscured more routine words & deeds of President Roosevelt.

> When Thomas R. Amlie, the ex-Representative from Wisconsin whom Mr. Roosevelt appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.), asked him to withdraw his name from consideration by the Senate in the face of opposition sure to deny confirmation, the President reluctantly did so, slapped "name-callers" who had painted Amlie Red.

> The President signed the bill ending immunity of Federal employes from State taxation, State and local employes from Federal taxation.

> Political ears thought they heard President Franklin Roosevelt's first third-term announcement when he said at Mount Vernon, in a speech commemorating President George Washington's first notification of election: "That Washington would have refused public service if the call had been a normal one has always been my belief. But the summons to the Presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emergency. The dangers that beset the young nation were as real as though the very independence Washington had won for it had been threatened once more by foreign foes.

"We . . . are thankful for that decision and proud of it."