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Show - Washington, D". C. WILLKIE AROUSES O.O.P. CHIEFS While Wendell Wlllkie made front page news In London favoring the lend-lease armament bill, a group of potent midwestern Republican leaders met to discuss what to do about him. That most of the G.O.P chiefs are hot under the collar because their erstwhile standard-bearer is behind the Roosevelt measure is putting it mildly. They are so sore they could bite nails. He put the Republican party on the spot on this highly charged issue the last thing the boys wanted to happen. THE NEW BRAIN TRUSTER Tom Corcoran Is famous for many things, one of them being his lack of punctuality. Always rushed with innumerable Jobs, he got hours behind be-hind with his engagements, and his favorite time for catching up with correspondence was Sunday afternoon and night Corcoran's first-born daughter arrived ar-rived several days after the doctors had predicted, and the dynamic braintruster took the delay very hard. But not his beauteous wife, Peggy. She was calm and certain everything every-thing would be all right Afterwards After-wards a friend asked her why she had been so confident "Oh," smiled Peggy, "who ever neara or a Corcoran Deing on time for an appointment?" LORD HALIFAX POSES From the point of view of the press, Lord Halifax has got off to a good start. After his talk with Hull, Halifax invited in-vited the press into the diplomatic reception room, where with his one good arm (his left hand is missing) he lit a cigarette and answered questions ques-tions with a deep voice and a wan smile. Oddity at this conference was the presence of the German newsman, Kurt Sell, correspondent for the official of-ficial Nazi news agency, D.N.B. Sell busily took notes while Halifax was saying, "When the history of this war comes to be written, it will say that Hitler lost the war in June of 1940." PERKINS VS. EVANS Agriculture department liberals, led by Milo Perkins, aggressive chief of the surplus marketing administration, administra-tion, have been gunning for Evans' scalp ever since the European war shut off cotton and wheat export markets, thus aggravating the economic eco-nomic plight of small farmers who make their entire livelihood from these crops. Perkins wants to meet the loss of foreign markets by less emphasis on "cash income" the guide-rule of big, commercial farmers and greater emphasis on the food stamp plan for disposal of surpluses at home. His group contends that small growers should be made more self-sustaining self-sustaining by less crop control, and by more diversified farming for domestic do-mestic consumption. Evans looks coldly upon any departure de-parture from the 'cash income" principle as rank heresy, and views the food stamp program as a deterrent de-terrent on farm prices, rather than a benefit to needy In the cities and a way to dispose of surpluses on the farm.. That Perkins' program stands high in the favor of Wickard was shown when the latter publicly advocated ad-vocated the policy, as soon as he was sure he would remain as secretary sec-retary of agriculture. NEW AAA WAR The Agricultural Adjustment administration, ad-ministration, has long rocked by backstage rowing. This year's is the fourth since the AAA was created in 1933. AAAdministrator Rudolph M. Evans Ev-ans plus certain aides have been accused of being in opposition to Secretary Claude Wickard's announced an-nounced policy of increasing federal aid to small, under-privileged farmers farm-ers and tenants. Evans has never enthused over such a program. He has consistently consistent-ly preached that the way to achieve higher commodity prices was through government loans and AAA benefit payments a system that has netted handsome dividends to large commercial farm operators but has reduced few mortgages for the little lit-tle fellow. Before Evans, there were the explosive ex-plosive George Peek, first AAA boss, who departed in 1934; Chester Davis, Da-vis, who rowed with Wallace; and Howard R. Tolley, Evans' immediate immedi-ate predecessor, who was shifted to the bureau of agricultural economics. econom-ics. All were "liquidated" following follow-ing bitter policy rows over this same issue. MERRY-GO-ROUND Among the habiliments Jack Garner Gar-ner packed up when he left Washington Wash-ington was a suit of evening clothes. "What use will you have for those fancy duds In Texas?" a friend asked. "Oh," repli&a Garner, "we still have weddings and funerals there." The Capital Times, Madison, Wis., official daily of the LaFollette Progressive Pro-gressive party, and once a staunch supporter of Senator Wheeler, is now blasting his position on the lend-lease lend-lease bill. I |