Abstract

Plots and Counterplots: Projects of a Great Engineer

The first thing the observing visitor is likely to remark in the U.S. nowadays is the atmosphere of suspicion, distrust and dread which pervades almost every department of the national government. Among officials of all ranks one encounters the same feeling of being watched and plotted against by secret enemies. The fear which emanates from the White House has spread over the capital. Under a President who sees in nearly every prominent member of his party a secret aspirant for the Presidential nomination in 1932, it is not strange that cabinet members, Congressmen, chairmen of commissions, bureau chiefs and secretaries are engaged in suspecting their subordinates and each other of equally evil designs.