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Show The World This Week ! MR. ICKES GOES FROM WASHINGTON When Harold Ickes handed in his resignation as Secretary of the Interior he brought to a close one of the longest, stormiest and most colorful government careers care-ers that Washington has seen in many a decade. True to type he didn't mince his words when he put 3,000 of them in his letter of resignation to the President. The fact that the President continued to support Edwin W. Pauley, California oil man, for the post of undersecretary of the Navy after Ickes had bluntly testified against him in a Senate hearing was too much for the "Old Curmudgeon". Cur-mudgeon". And he said so. The Interior Secretary was the last of the original Roosevelt cabinet of 1933 who had held the same position po-sition continuously. The cnti.ro cabinet which Truman inherited from Roosevelt has .now been changed with the exception of Scerctarv of Commerce Wallace and Secretary of the Navy For-restal. For-restal. Well. Washington will be quieter, but less interesting, now that Harold's gone. GROWING UNREST Britain is finding that it is becoming be-coming increasingly difficult to muddle through in the various explosively political and racial spots where her troops are stationed. sta-tioned. Recently students in Cari-ro Cari-ro have been rioting against the presence of British forces in that country. In Calcutta, India, serious ser-ious riots have caused scores of casualties including 14 killed in one outbreak. Eighteen American Ameri-can soldiers were injured in the melee. Disturbances also occurred occur-red in Bombay and New Delhi. The Calcutta riot was touched off by the protest of Moslems against the 7 -year sentence of a Moslem officer of the Japanese sponsored "Indian national army." This was the first time in many years 'hat the Moslems have taken an ictive part in resisting the gov-trnment. gov-trnment. Britain has long beon accustomed to the hot seat she is sitting on but it promises to get hotter than ever before. "I DID NOT CHOOSE-?" In spite of denials by Democratic Demo-cratic party chairman Robert Ilanncgan that President Truman has already made a private "I-do not-choose-to-run" statement regarding re-garding the 1948 election, rumors persist that the Chief Executive wants to step down when this term is finished. According to reports, Mr. Truman tells many friends and visitors that he did not want to be-President and that he finds the job too trying and burdensome. He longs for the comparatively carefree life he enjoyed en-joyed as senator and Vice-President. Hanncgan's denial of the President's desire to quit in 1948 was to be expected since a silence sil-ence on the rumor or an affirmation affir-mation of it would further weak-1 jen Mr. Truman's control of the Democratic parly. It still re-mains re-mains to be seen if Mr. Truman , will actually emulate Calvin . Coolidgc. HARDLY CONVINCING The recent gesture of friend-fhip friend-fhip toward the United States by Argentina's "strong man" Colonel Col-onel Juan Person, expressed in his 4.000-word statement entitled "Thoughts on Government," was not very convincing to the American Amer-ican State Department. This wn clearly shown when the State Department almost immediately released a "blue book" chnrgme Argentine governments w i t h working for the restoration of Nazism while fivinf? lip service to democracy. Heading the list of officials accused by the document docu-ment of being fascists was none other than Juan Peron. himself. Copies of the "blue book." which is based largely on captured German Ger-man document's, were sent to Ihe other 19 American governments. Apparently our State Department Depart-ment doesn't srtt a vcrv hifrh value val-ue on Colonel Peron's "friendship." "friend-ship." TUGEOAT TIE-UP The New York tugboat tie-up was just one example of how a small group of men can paralyze business and industry and create enormous hardships and suffer-1 ing for millions of nrr ever jut the demands H ' been fo; higher wagP fi C rr hours, that strike ha8 S? ' done more to weaken XohakW of labor than could eve 1C4 cd by such a walkout labor loaders were deliL-50 seeking to undermine ihelj i they could hardly aoVh-,!111 than they have hS tter S Through their "VrV the time may not be far 2 V when laws will be na0T ' all strikes illegal wSSSJ ?cr the public wolf ?re xyu2f labor may lose in th ha,er 11 richts and p.riviic-". ?'ay of blnmrd only on a f0w " s:ahtod leaders. The unfL hort S part of it is. however th1 majority of workers ' S many labor leaders who 2! J cere will have to suffi Sfr ' actions of these few or |