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Show News By PaulMallon THE WASHINGTON METHOD OF GETTING THINGS DONE WASHINGTON. An expose of how things are done in Washington, intimate in its frankness, was received re-ceived by a business man in his mail one morning, paper-clipped to the back ol a letter from the office of Milo Perkins, the ex-genius who functioned as a guiding star for Vice President Wallace before the elimination elimi-nation of the Wallace control over the Bureau of Economic Warfare. It alone might have furnished the reason for the transfer of that bureau bu-reau had it been paper-clipped to any letter received at the White House from that direction. Primarily, it tells how the liberals (meaning everyone who agrees with the author about what should be done) should build a fire under Mr. Roosevelt to sweat him over their way or the way of the author. Or, as the memo stated, "to counter the sewer gas that now annoys his ol-factory ol-factory tract," and caused him to ' abandon liberalism meaning the author. "The definite atmosphere of conservatism con-servatism has been in large measure created and it is the only air Mr. Roosevelt is breathing and the tune he hears," the Perkins memo declared de-clared concerning its top Washington Washing-ton boss. "Not only to offset but overcome the propaganda on the other side so that the President, the country, and congress will have before them strong statements in the press, radio and the magazines setting forth the Liberal viewpoint, should we not again adopt this technique," (having (hav-ing Charlie Michelson prepare statements state-ments and speeches for members of the house and senate and officials In a campaign pitch). "I understand Lyndon Johnson, Texas representative, will be the new head of the congressional campaign cam-paign committee. He would be a useful man to work through. He might be induced to arrange for the Democratic National committee to send a good man to the South to focus opposition to the Farm Bureau in the South and make it vocal." The few remaining liberal "spots" in some departments, it listed as "Justice, Agriculture, Board of Economic Eco-nomic Warfare, Civilian Supply, In- terior and Manpower." "If we could do this in some manner, man-ner, the aroma of liberalism might again reach the nostrils of FDR and he perhaps would be better prepared to resist the pressure of the Jones', the National Manufacturers association, associa-tion, the O'Neals, and the rest." The technique suggested by the memo is, of course, customary here, but it is not often that anyone comes right out and says so. At least, no one has mistakenly included such a memo in a letter to a Republican business man. S S S SLIGHTLY ALTERED Wendell Willkie has given some signs of becoming a slightly altered man aince his long sit-and-talk sessions ses-sions on the Ellwood rail fence with the Hoosier Republicans. Little wisps of unplayed statements state-ments from him show him denying the Wallace kind of globaloney represents rep-resents his "one world" views; also announcing he will campaign for the Republican party candidate for lieutenant lieu-tenant governor of New York. The Hoosier homefolk politicos and the 27 national committeemen who visited him in Indiana, are being be-ing given credit within the party for having inspired these developments. The politicos talked gently to Willkie because they were not sure how strong he is, but made little secret of their current opposition to him. They vknow he has a powerful organization or-ganization and many friends and, they, like everyone else, always want to be with the. winner. But they told Willkie he must do two things if he is to get more than a minority of his ex-home state delegation dele-gation to the Republican convention: First: He must prove by actions that he is actually a Republican, drop his individualistic rule and do something to help the party and other oth-er people in it. Second: He must show also that his policies are not a rubber stamp of the New Deal in international affairs. af-fairs. Willkie came back at them trying to justify his position. Victory next year, he said, rested less upon party ties than upon getting the big independent inde-pendent vote. lie also said he had nothing in mind like Wallace, and would make the difference clear. What he has done since is in line with these Hoosier conference developments, de-velopments, but there must be more if he is to start with Indiana. S S INSIDE JAPAN Unofficial talk has been heard here that Japan may break internally after aft-er Germany falls, and bring a swift conclusion of the world war a long time before the six years forecast by our admirals. The idea is founded on the supposition suppo-sition that Jap shipping losses have orevented her from consolidating her newly won empire and from getting her vast stores of raw materials into war production. No one here can have any conclusive evidence in that respect |