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State Department
Shuffle
RE STATE DEPARTMENT shake-
1 up, the biggest in years, was need-
ed. Reorganization, begun last year,
was delayed by the election rather
than by any opposition of former Sec-
retary Hull. The old place required
streamlining and expansion to meet
increased responsibilities, including ab-
sorption of conflicting wartime agencies.
Secretary Stettinius, thanks to his
tenure as under secretary with Hull,
was familiar with these organisational
problems.
Though the new appointees, with
one possible exception, are men of abil-
ity, most of them are not trained
diplomats. This is unfortunate.
Since this nation became a world
power. Republican Presidents beginning
with Theodore Roosevelt have tried to
build a professional service, leading by
promotion to the top jobs in our em-
bassies and legations abroad and to
under-secretary and assistant secre-
taryships in the State Department. But
President Wilson and F. D. R. re-
verted in part to the system of spoils,
amateurs and personal friends. As a
result our foreign affairs have suffer-
ed when our well-meaning but inexperi-
enced representatives had to deal with
seasoned professionals, who run the
foreign affairs and embassies of the
other world powers. .
When the State Department organ-
ization is complete, and Congress has
authorized two additional assistant
secretaries, there will be an under secre-
tary and six assistants. Of the seven
only three will be professionals, or
“career men.”
But—since President Roosevelt is
determined to be his own Secretary of
State and to fill the secondary positions
with personal acquaintances—it is futile
to hop* for any basic chsnge now. Thst
is the way he works, which the voters*
knew when they re-elected him.
THE three professionals are to be Un
JL dersecretary Joseph C. Grew and
—when Congress creates two additional
positions—Assistants James C. Dunn
and Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes. Grew,
formerly undersecretary and ambassa-
dor to Turkey and Japan, is one of
our oldest and ablest career men, be-
sides being an old, schoolmate of the
President's. His appointment is signif-
icant because he is, our ranking diplo-
mat in Pacific affairs. Dunn is now
the department’s European director.
Holmes was sent from the diplomatic
service to be chief of civil affairs on
General Eisenhower's staff.
Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson,
an able official and the only present as-
sistant to remain, is to be congressional
contact man and also handle interna-
tional conferences.
Assistant Secretaries Berle, Shaw,
and Long have “resigned,” and the fol-
lowing have been appointed: William
L. Clayton, Nelson Rockefeller and Ar-
chibald MacLeish. Shaw and Long
were good professionals, though Long
at 63 has earned retirement. Berle
went in as a personal friend of the
President, has made some mistakes but
performed well in the current world
aviation conference; he apparently has
lost favor st the White House.
Clayton is the world's biggest cotton
broker, former assistant to Secretary
of Commerce Jones and present sur-
plus property administrator. He will
projects on a reserve shelf, ready to
start in a hurry if they are needed to
provide jobs. Otherwise the federal
government may be forced to improv-
ise hasty, wasteful make-work
schemes.
It is gratifying that Fort Worth
has already in an advanced stage, blue-
prints for a wide range of projects,
some absolutely essential, some merely
desirable, but all useful. Whatever the
necessity and the possibility after the
war, Fort Worth will have projects to
fit the picture.
Thus far, state and local blueprints
for about a billion dollars’ worth of
projects have been brought to a point
where actual construction could begin
within 60 days. Some states have done
a good deal, but others are handicap-
ped by constitional restrictions.
The Baruch-Hancock report sug-
gested that Congress might want to
provide funds . to help with planning,
but should do so only “with full recog-
nition of the fact that the debt bur-
den of many communities, cities and
states is far lighter than that of the
federal government.”
And so Congress has authorized
planning loans, instead of outright
gifts, and has declared that it is -
assuming no obligation to provide con-
struction cash from the federal
treasury. That, of course, is no guar-
antee that Uncle Sam won’t be called
upon later to pay for local improve-
ments, but at least it doesn’t commit
him to do so. And the $75,900,000 loan
fund asked by Mr. Roosevelt would
complete plans for about a billion and
a half dollars' worth of additional proj-
ects.
Tax legislation ready on a post-
war shelf was another Baruch-Han-
cock recommendation. Business can be
conducted in spite of stiff taxes, but
business can not flourish and provide
plenty of good jobs so long as it is un-
certain about what tax rates will be or
how they are to be applied.
Private industry creates jobs by
starting new enterprises or expanding
old ones, building new plants or en-
larging old ones, buying new machin-
ery and equipment, undertaking sales
campaigns to win larger markets for
goods. All this activity is financed by
capital taking calculated risks in hope
of profits. And risks can’t be calcu-
lated until it is known how much the
government’s take will be and under
what rules it will be taken.
There should be no reduction of
taxes during the war. But Congress
should — and the sooner the better—
decide what peacetime taxes are to be.
That decision made and announced,
business and industry, can plan to pro-
duce and to employ.
Let’s Go
FIVE MALONEY-MONRONEY reso-
1 lution, authorizing a bipartisan
Senate-House committee to study and
report on how to modernise Congress,
has been before the House Rules Com-
mittee for more then a year. It pass-
ed the Senate, unanimously, in August..
For a week now, the Rules Commit-
tee has been hearing witnesses tell
how urgently desirable it is to get
started on this modernising job. And
for days it has been hemming and
hawing over whether to let the House
vote on the Maloney-Monroney resolu-
rtion, or to substitute another measure
that as yet hasn't even been introduced
in the Senate.
There’s not a ghost of a chance
that this other measure could be pass-
ed by both branches of Congress until
well along into next year. Action on
the Maloney-Monroney resolution can
be completed this week, if the Rules
Committee will permit. Why fritter
away more time?
handle economic affairs, plus aviation.
Rockefeller, now head of the Office of
Inter-American Affairs, which is to be
absorbed, will handle the department's
Latin American affairs. And the poet
MacLeish, another Roosevelt favorite,
is shifted from the Library of Congress
to take charge of the department’s pub-
lic and cultural relations.
Though too many of these men lack
diplomatic experience, they have the ad-
vantage of knowing each other, Secre-
tary Stettinius and the President.
That should make for better teamwork
in a department which has lacked it.
The “quarterback” in the White House.
will call all the signals, as usual.
Postwar Projects •
CONGRESS has already approved
U the principle of federal loans to
states, counties and cities for the plan-
ning of postwar public works, and
should now vote promptly the $75,-
900,000 appropriation asked by Presi-
dent Roosevelt for that purpose.
Nobody knows how large a public-
works program may be necessary or
desirable after the war. But, as the
Baruch-Hancock report said nine
months ago, state and local sovern-
ments ought to have plenty of sound
STOKES
Republicans Might Show
Some Initiative Digging
Up New Deal's Skeletons
By THOMAS I,. STOKES ,
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON. — Democrats in Con-
gress, with a few notable exceptions,
are exhibiting a callous and—in some cases
—cynical attitude in the matter of some
house-cleaning and improvement of ad-
ministration which the public seemed to
arainnt expect afler the elec-
3 tion.
A Congress has a def-
. 4 inite responsibility of its
own with which it is
charged by the people.
This is to use its in"
W vestigative p ow er to
examine allegations of
Glene maladministra ti o n in
12227. govern m ent depart-
0-1 AY ments, such as those
brought by Norman
Mr Stokes Littell, deposed assist -
ant attorney general,
against Attorney General Biddle. They
involve, in part, the influence of an out-
side friend, the lawyer-lobbyist, Thomas
G. Corcoran, upon Mr. Biddle's decisions
in important matters.
One branch of Congress, the Senate,
shares with the President the power of
appointment through its authority to
reject presidential nominations.
Yet, a reporter who inquires around
the capitol finds Democratic leaders shy-
ing away from an inquiry into the Littell
charges, where they are not busy trying
to squelch anyone bold enough to want
some light, such as Representative Voor-
his (Calif.), * progressive Democrat, who
has introduced an investigation resolution.
. The reporter also discovers that while
Democrats privately are critical of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's two appointments to the
all-important surplus property board, Ex-
Governor Robert A. Hurley of Connecticut,
a lame duck, and Lt. Col. Edward F. Heller
of California, they are preparing to swal-
low them, holding their noses the while,
as “a party matter.”
TT ERE is an opportunity for the Senate
I to exert itself and tell Mr. Roosevelt
plainly that it wants different sort of
men, men more experienced in the type of
work to ba done by this important agency.
But Democrats, who are in the majority,
are hot stirring themselves.
Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn is
using his powerful office to prevent the
proposed House Judiciary Committee in-
quiry into the Littell charges, being obli-
gated on many counts to Tommy Corcoran.
In naming names, there might also be
Included Senator Mead (Democrat, New
York) who la acting on behalf of the Ad-
ministration to suppress any investigation
into the Littell charges by the commit-
tee which he heads, formerly known as
the Truman committee.
The New York senator, who is always
very amenable to White House commands,
dodges behind a strictly legalistic subter-
fuge. He holds that his committee’s prov-
ince is limited to the charge by Mr. Littell
that he was disciplined by the attorney
general for testimony before the Mead
committee, and that the committee could
not go into collateral charges by Mr. Lit-
tell, including influence of Tommy Corcor-
an upon Mr. Biddle.
• • •
THIS doean't hold water, for the only in-
1 vestigation ever made into Tommy
Corcoran’s operations around Washington
was by that same committee, three years
ago, under direction of Senator Truman
(Democrat, Missouri), though it was a kid
glove inquiry.
Tommy Corcoran is expected to ap-
pear in a few days before a House com-
mittee, the special committee which is in-
vestigating the sale of radio station
WMCA, New York, to former Assistant
Secretary of Commerce Edward J. Noble.
This was a particular smelly affair in-
volving inside pressure, in which the firm
of Depsey and Koplovitz was employed.
Both young men, William J. Dempsey and
William Koplovitz, formerly were employed
by the Federal Communications Commis-
sion. Tommy has been associated with
them.
But administration pressure resulted in
closing the doors of this committee, so
that the public can not get the atory.
In the absence of any initiative by
Democrats, other than by Representative
Voorhis, Republicans have a challenge to
show some energy and leadership in op-
ening up some doors around Washington,
and dragging out some skeletons.
Civil War Behind Allied Lines
Could Be Stopped By Communists
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON. — In order to forestall
W possibly disastrous consequences to
the Allied war effort in Europe and Asia
as a result of increasing chaos in both
theaters, an early meeting between Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Marshal Stalin has
become imperative.
This is widely believ-
ed in United Nations
circles here. Despite the
Moscow and Teheran
conferences! Mr.
Churchill's recent trip
to Moscow, and all that
has been done by the
Mr. Simms
European Advisory
Commission, Dumbar-
ton Oaks, and the rest,
nothing like a real un-
derstanding exists be-
tween the Big Three.
In Greece, civil war
is threatening, if, indeed, it has not al-
ready begun. In Belgium a similar situ-
ation is held down only by the potential
might of Allied arms. In France, large
groups of armed men refuse to surrender
their weapons to the authorities. Italy’s
political position Is steadily deteriorating.
In Yugoslavia, something skin to terror
reigns. Poland's plight is notoriously
tragic. Turkey and Switzerland are
wondering what Is in store for them,,
Spain and Portugal are uneasy, and so on.
• ••
(HUNKGING, Free China’s capital, is
U new menaced by the advancing Jap-
anese. Some officials there admit the
next 50 dsys may decide whether or not
China can continue in the war. Collapse
is a distinct possibility. Some blame
Generalissimo Chiang Kal-Shek and his
conservative entourage. Some blame the
Chinese Communists, who refuse to col-
laborate with Chungking, save on their
own terms. Still others say the fault lies
with the Allies, for China has already
lasted several times' as long as military
experts believed she could, fighting almost
with bare hands.
Russia, above all, holds the key to
this mess. A word from her to the right
people—whether In Belgium, Greece, Po-
land, France, Yugoslavia, China or else-
where — would be as oil on troubled
waters.
• • •
TOUNDAMENTALLY; American policy, at
T least, has followed the Atlantic Char-
ter. Governments and boundaries were
to be left intact until after the defeat
of the Axis. Then all such issues would
be settled around the peace tables. Mean-
time, the Allies would not take advantage
of the war to gain territory for them-
eelvee or to Impose governments on un-
willing or helpless peoples. Partially to
implement this understanding, a European
Advisory Commission was set up at Lon-
don.
But the commission has failed, because
the Big Three have not empowered it to
function as it was intended to function.
One dangerous situation after another has
arisen in Europe and nothing has been
done about it. Yet, according to the Hull-
Eden-Molotov agreement at Moacow, the
commission was to insure the closest co-
operation between the three governments.
It was to study European questions as
they arose and make recommendations
concerning them.
Nothing like that has happened.
Washington and London have been and
remain in the dark concerning Moscow’s
present and future intentions in Europe
and Asia.
Throughout liberated Europe, revolu-
tionists are fishing in troubled waters
behind the Allies lines — that is to say,
behind Anglo-American lines, because be-
hind the Russian lines order ie maintain-
ed, or else. And in almost every instance
local Communists are spear-heading the
unrest.
If, in line with the Atlantic Charter,
Moscow were to pass the word that the
first job is to lick Germany and Japan
and to attend to domestic politics after-
wards, the belief is widespread that the
danger behind General Eisenhower would
vanish overnight, and Chiang Kai-Shek's
-difficulties would be vastly reduced.
What Are We Waitin’ For!
THE
LEAST
WE CAN DO
IS SEE •
WHAT’S
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TC TITLE’S
CHARGES OF
UNDUE .
INFLUENCE
ON BIDDL E c
War Armament Changes Create Shortages
By CHARLES T. LUCEY
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
ATTJASHINGTON. — Constant
W shifting of armament needs
and designs and increased empha-
sia on artillery - and - infantry
ground warfare were cited by
Army officials today as basic to
the new drive for greater muni-
tions output.
The critical situation has led to
a proposal by Chairman J. A.
Krug of the War Production
Board for bonuses to attract new
workers into war industries, and
Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell,
chief of Army Service Forces, has
suggested making such bonuses
payable after the war.
More than 1,000,000 men have
been lost to war industry in a
year.
Underlining the constant need
to put new weapons in the hands
of U.S. troops, a report from Army
Service Forces showed that —
The Army overseas todsy is us-
ing scarcely a single weapon that
was the same as those provided
when the war began.
•Not a single piece of anti-air-
craft artillery or a single piece of
heavy artillery from the 155-milli-
meter gun up goes back to prewar
days.
The infantryman’s rifle is now
the semi-automatic M-1, now in
its third model, instead of the old
Springfield with which virtually
all troops were equipped in 1941;
his bayonet today is shorter and
more deadly than the old 16-inch
Science
COLLEGES RECOMMEND
FARM PROGRAM
By Science Service.
CHICAGO—A just balance be-
tween farming and city industry,
between imports and agricultural
exports, was the keynote of the
preliminary report of a committee
on post-war agricultural policy
offered here before the meeting of
the Association of Land-Grant
Colleges and Universities. Under
the chairmanship of Noble Clark,
associate director of the Wiscon-
sin Experiment Station, the com-
mittee’s 18 members were drawn
from leading agricultural colleges
and experiment stations in all
parts of the country.
Some of the points stressed in
the report were:
1. Need for full employment and
production, in industry as well as
on the farm, with recognition that
restricted production and arti-
ficial prices in the end defeat
the aims of their promoters.
2. Acceptance of the farm-to-
city migration as the normal
thing by providing rural young
people with training and skills
needed in winning a livelihood in
the city.
3. Recognition of the uncertain-
ties in the post-war export mar-
ket and rejection of a program
of subsidized dumping abroad of
surpluses.
4. Need for special studies of
problems presented ‘y high-sur-
plus crops, notably cotton and
wheat; recommendations thst eco-
nomically marginal producing
areas to be shifted out of these
crops.
5. An orderly tapering-off of
wartime crop bonuses, and in gen-
eral the avoidance of government
price controls as far as practicable
except in depression emergencies.
4. Establishment of the family-
owned, owner-operated, moderate-
sized farm as the norm of the
American way of life on the land.
7. Improvement of living condi-
tions for tenants, share-croppers
and farm laborers, with efforts to
encourage these groups to become
farm owner-operators.
8. Disposal of present military
land holdings.
9. Expansion of soil conserva-
tion program on farm and range
lands.
10. Improvement of facilities for
rural living, particularly in the
fields of education, medicine and
public health, housing and roada,
recreation and church participa-
tion.
model. Infantry units are carry-
ing totally new all-metal 45-cali-
bre submachine guns with three
times the firepower of the old
Thompson gun.
In the last year many new
rocket items were standardized
for procurement, new artillery
pieces were developed, 45 new
tank and motor transport items
went into production, a new 20-
mm. gun for air-craft armament
was developed.
Steel treadway bridges were re-
designed to increase capacity, and
bombs, flame throwers and gas-
masks were changed.
All this adds up to vastly great-
er production strains than if
models were standardised and
turned out without change. But
General Somervell points out that
Naxl General Goering, determined
to stick to one set of plane models
to maintain high production,
standardised the Luftwaffe after
German engineers had created
their finest planes. And, he asks,
Where is the Luftwaffe now?
Original plans for artillery and
ammunition were revised down-
ward in November, 1942, and
again in February, 1943. Field
commanders and staff planners
believed mobile warfare tactics
would reduce requirements for
heavy artillery.
Early in 1944 it became plain,
however, that heavy artillery
would play a much greater role
than had been anticipated. Effec-
tive use of the 155-mm. gun in
North Africa and in the Pacific
against the Japanese increased
demands for this weapon from
theater commanders.
Experience on the Italian front
showed that expenditures of
heavy artillery ammunition had
been underestimated by half. In-
creased firing meant also an in-
Little Lines
By MARGIE B. BOSWELL
“Right” on the wrong road is
ridiculed.
To the horse, a whip is hellish.
“Suppose” isn’t a pushbotton to
betterment.
Never knowing an answer,
quickly quiets a questioner.
Wise is the worm that outwits
a woodpecker.
It takes apt ears to locate
echoes.
SIDE GLANCES
crease in gun barrels needed, as
they wear out with firing.
This shift led, also, to greater
needs for smokeless powder and
capacity of plants, according to
Army Service Forces reports, had
to be increased 80 per cent. In-
creased production of the big guns
created a problem in forging and
machining equipment.
Experience in Italy has been
emphasised in France and Ger-
many, and that helps to explain
why General Eisenhower is call-
ing for greater production as his
armies slam up against the Sieg-
fried Une.
Appearing before the Senate
War Investigating Committee to
suggest the post-war bonus, Gen-
eral Somervell testified that defi-
cits are occurring in 40 per cent
of war items and that 2T per cent
of these items are critical. Most
important among these are heavy
artillery, ammunition, tires, wire,
radar, batteries, bombs and heavy
Today’s Poem
SO LITTLE TIME
So little time for Christmas shop-
ping,
So little time for us to play;
No time to visit, we moan.
It la the same each day.
is
Across the seas, time, too,
precious.
Every minute must count an hour.
So our heroes hurry on
To do things almost beyond their
power.
So little time to build the needed
bridges.
So little time to mend the guns.
So little time for each battle.
No time to wait for the sun.
80 little time for rest;
They push on with weary eyes.
They go on and on with
80 little time to die.
Yes, we bemoan each passing mo-
ment.
But what a difference we would
find,
If we were there, where there
• really is
So little time.
NAYDENE MACK.
342 Rowland Dr.
” 7 -
R SEN SI Sou. Me Um ne u n p o
42 6
"I don’t know whether my wife is really worried about
my weight or thinks I’m outdoing her in meat and butter when
she asks me every day what I had for lunch!”
PECLER
Mutual Good Faitii
With Russia Seems
To Be Impossible
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK.—There are many
Americans, including some clergy
and, I dare say, some Republicans
too, who believe it, p 0 for
the United States to co-operate
politically and with mutual good •
faith with Russia.
I wish I could think so because
their peace of mind.is enviable.
When I speak of Russia I refer,
or course, to the Russian Com-
munist govern- puacpoi—
ment, not the —
millions of Rus-
si an human be
ings who exist 41
to serve that 1 3 % ,
government. It Whs acs he
is not difficult ,
to believe that WE
the RussianUeh
people are, on c
the a v e rage,
amiable an dST
that they are gee
more inclined Men
to like Ameri-uisienin
cans than to Mr. Pegter
dislike us. That they are brave
and good fighters, industrious and
much more intelligent than the
Russians who went to the first
world war under the Czar la de-
niod by no man. *
But the Russian government
and its secret international or-
ganisation amounting to a con-
spiracy against other nations, in-
cluding our own, which trust Rus-
sia in spite of the record, seem
to me not to have changed their
attitude in the slightest degree
during our co-operation in this
war.
At ones, the objection will be
raised that the International has
been dissolved because Russia said
so publicly. To that, the unhappy
answer is that Russia did not
even say it had been dissolved.
And, anyway, in the light of
past performances and many dec-
larations of revolutionary intent
against other trusting nations. I
think that hope, the desire for
mutual confidence and for peace
in collaboration with Russia, de-
feats intelligence.
• • •
MAURICE THOREZ, the leader
of the Communist conspiracy
against the French Republic, has
recently been forgiven and wel-
comed back to the country that
he betrayed. He was a traitor and
a deserter from the Army in the
face of the Nasi enemy. Commun-
ists in the French war plants
slacked and sabotaged the job and
units of the army in which Com-
munists were numerous or pre-
dominant, refused to fight and de-
liberately spread confusion and
defeatism in the most terrible
hours of the Nazi invasion. At
the same time, the Communists
in the United States, operating in
many guises, were similarly de-
nouncing the war as an aggres-
sion of the British and French
empires against the Nazis and the
Fascists who, presumably, were
peace-loving victims of British
French aggression. Similarly, al-
so, they were conducting strikes
and other blockades of our war
industries and picketing the
White House in Washington.
In our country, like Thorez of
France, these people have been
granted political amnesty, so to
speak, since Hitler attacked Rus-
sia in June 1941, at which time,
within 36 hours, all of them
changed their opinion of the im-
perialist war and now demanded a
total industrial war effort so that
all help could be aped to Russia.
Since that time. President
Roosevelt has extended gratuitous
and wholly unnecessary courtesies
to many of these individuals.
Henry Wallace has openly
fraternized with some of them.
Mrs. Roosevelt has treated them
with a friendly consideration that
has been consistently withheld
from Americans of unquestion-
able patriotism whose sons are
fighting in every combat arm of
the services, for the United
States, because these Americans
are skeptical of Russia and
suspicious of Communist pene-
tration of our government Sev-
eral conspicuous leaders of thia
conspiracy of sabotage which the
President himself, in general
terms, denounced as such at the
time, have been given "draft de-
ferments on the ground of their
essentiality as union leaders or
bosses in the war plants.
• • •
DUSSIA gave Thores asylum
IV after he betrayed France and
now that he has returned under
amnesty from General De Gaulle,
who, in turn, makes a pilgrimage
to Moscow, Theorez holds a Com-
munist mass-meeting at which he
demands a Communist govern-
ment for France.
If France were consistent,
Thorez would be tried, convicted
and shot for his treachery which
was far more effective, deliberate
and costly to all his fellow
countrymen than the collaboration
of French industrialists who
collaborated with the Nazis at
gun-point. Even those French men
and women, boys and girls, who
denounced members of the under-
ground and sent them to the fir-
ing squads were less guilty in the
effect of their treachery than
Thores was. They condemned in-
dividuals. Thores directed a party,
a movement whose purpose was
to take France out of the war
through defeat
These are developments of this
war too recent for denial, and
those Amreicans who believe we
can co-operate in good faith with
Russia must deal with them la
justifying their conclusion and
their hope.
They must justify, too, Ruasia'a
participation, from the east la
the German attack on Poland
which started the war, for, as
will be remembered, when the
Nazis invaded from the west
Russia invaded in pace from the
east until the two armies met at
a prearranged line of partition
and camped on tolerant if mu-
tually auspicious terms.
It is well to pray, and to hope
that we may exist and co-operate
to win and maintain the peace of
the world in good faith with Rus-
sia. But it is quite another thing
to insist in the face of the record
that this is possible.
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