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From WA Sheen’ O10 AWY sg BOVE MENT y SACVTCE ‘ Kennedy Covosed - Ve EF Patat ah Chitesmsteaes PBoe aaeearrec As Chiey ef Shipping Progrem Special to The Post - Washington, Apr. 2I—New Dealers here are putting up a vigorous fight - against the boom for appointment of Joseph P. Kennedy, former chairman of the Maritime Commission,’as director of the nation’s merchant ship building ee program. : oe Their opposition 1o Kennedy is based upon two factors. First, Kennedy when Ambassador to Great Britain and after he was recalled was openly defeatist and isolationist, predicting in- vasion and defeat of England, Second, even earlier he was con- sidered by the New Dealers too conservative and too much a2 representative of big business, Criticism of Land Backers of Kennedy for di- . ( rector of the crucial drive to . : speed up shipbuilding point to his record as Maritime Com. mission chairman in 1937, wher 4 he pronounced the U. S. mer ehant marine “a very sick in dustry” and directed the begin ning of the effort to rebuild it The Kennedy boom grows ou of recent criticism of the pel cies of Admiral Emory S. Lane chairman of the War Shippin Administration, but Land's su porters assert that this cri eism has emanated from tl same shipbuilding interests th--—— . 1 are supporting Kennedy. ¢ s ry