Show N National I Wh Whirligig Ir I- I T Tucker By Ray W WASHINGTON A delegation delegation delegation tion of important Industrialists who hope to be on the winning side recently interviewed interview Thomas Thom Thom- as E E. Dewey of New York to ask whether he Would accept the Rep Republican presidential nomination nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion i If he were drafted His answer answer answer an an- was a flat No and the group Is convinced that he means it The governor told them that the next chief chic executive would suffer postwar headaches and that under no circumstances could be be reelected He would be only a one and would go godown down in history as another John Adams or Benjamin Harrison Harrison Har Har- rison Mr Dewey said that he he preferred to wait walt until most of the national and international mess has been liquidated He thinks that he might prof it from the next presidents president's mistakes whether he is a Republican or or 01 Democrat f His His third reason for not running run run- ning Impressed his listeners He wants to learn more about the mechanics of government at Albany to have a better background background background back back- ground when he e enters the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House as he expects in 1949 Mr Deweys Dewey's aloofness is grist for Wendell Willkie The fat boys prefer the Empire state executive but their second choice is the 1940 nominee He has the b best st chance of winning in their opinion and they think he will abandon his foolish new ideas on domestic and foreign for for- for n eign policy If he should supplant Franklin D. D Roosevelt George C. C Marshall will be packing his bags soon to leave for London and assume the most important army post in the roster of united nations' nations com com- manders For sentiments sentiment's sake he may maybe maybe maybe be permitted to spend the Christmas holidays at his year-old year colonial home In Leesburg Leesburg Leesburg Lees- Lees burg Va but he will go abroad early in iri the new year as overall overall overall over over- all director o of the final grand assault on Germany The U U. U S S. S chief of staff Is such a person that his supreme ability is often un un- recognized But John J. J Pershing Pershing Per Per- shing once described him as the finest soldier in the world and it was on B Black lac k J Jacks a c ks recommendation that he was jumped over 34 senior officers and appointed to his present po position position position po- po by President Roosevelt Qualified experts experts' have declared declared declared de de- him to be our greatest military genius since Stonewall Jackson Only difference is that the Confederate leader handled a few thousand troops while Marshall has mobilized trained and organized It is not widely known but the Virginia Military institute graduate is the only man to hold the office of chief o of staff and commanding general of the field forces Besides serving as adviser ad ad- adviser to Secretary of War Stimson Stimson Stimson son and the president he cont controls controls con con- t operations on all our fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing fronts He bosses the whole works Contrary to uninformed opinion opinion opinion ion that Prime Minister Church Church- t ill opposed Marshalls Marshall's promotion promotion promotion promo promo- tion the qui quiet t modest but determined determined determined de de- de- de American is one of the favorites Winnie admires his stubbornness and in in- in- in dependence The most popular and profitable profitable profitable profit profit- able businesses In the capital today are those carried on by fortune tellers palmists astrologists astrologists tea-leaf tea diviners and psychiatrists Washington has gone nuts about foreseeing its personal and collective future Diplomats from foreign prin principalities principalities principalities prin- prin first introduced the idea They never threw a party without hiring a voodoo artist and ensconcing her in an upstairs room where she psychoanalyzed the guests |