Show I I I MERRY Snyder n er ice e Weak Spot Writer rier Holds a s By Dy DREW DEEW PEARSON fEARSON WASHINGTON Ono V ASHINGTON One conclusion conclusion conclusion sion drawn from tram the British h elections elc is III that the people in England were thinking about peacetime prosperity and postwar postwar post post- war reconstruction more than the military achievements of ot their wartime leader Likewise In the U. U S. S A. A aUthe all aU the Political soundings of ot congressmen con con- gressmen all aU the reports of ot political experts indicate that th the American public is beginning beginning begin begin- ning to worry aboUt what's going go gu guing ing to happen here at home after the war The many letters letters let let- tors pouring in on this writer especially from the soldiers substantiate sub this In view of ot this Harry Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man may have pulled his first Important domestic boner when he moved Fred Vinson from the war office and made him secretary of ot the treasury placing him with wilh the St St. Louis Louts banker John Snyder Actually the office of ot war mobilization has come to be the theoffice theoffice office of ot war demobilization and and find it is one of ot those dc delicate cogs in the governmental gov gov- governmental governmental gov- gov machine which if it gets gels out of gC gear r can smash Just about every ery wheel in the shop Vinson even after his many years of ot experience was finding it a rac racking nerve ing back backbreaking break back break breaking ing log problem problem and and he will be bethe bethe bethe the first to admit it Therefore to put Snyder almost almost al almost al- al most fr fresh h out of St St. Louis Louia into this intricate Job is 13 like transferring transferring transferring trans trans- ferring a product of ot the sidewalks side side- walks alks of ot New York Into a submarine submarine sub sub- marine and asking him to operate operate oper oper- ate It This Is b meant as no reflection on Snyder He is a 8 hardworking work hard ing conscientious gentleman an able bodied banker and faithful faithful faithful faith faith- ful ful- to his good friend Harry Truman with whom he tr trained ined every year in tn the Missouri na national national na- na guard guard- But it just isn't fair to put him on such a a. hot spot No m man a 8 n n not o t previously steeped in the complex recon recon- version demobilization picture as Judge Vinson was waB can expect expect expect ex ex- to step in cold and do the Job Result I Is that hat John Snyder alts in meetings his ears literally literally liter liter- ally flapping lapping as curved balbI balls balb I fly at him im from ev every ry direction He Fie je doesn't even know the t terminology ter- ter rJ r- r J IJ gy o of various a o r sion- sion pF problems lems Meanwhile If Jf the Japanese peace should come suddenly this country might be in for a Budden Bud sud sudden sudden sud- sud den stoppage of ot war orders disastrous disastrous disastrous dis dis- dis- dis unemployment and the worst economic dislocation since 1930 Round Merry E Eve Every v e r y mothers mother's son west of the Mis- Mis river rIver and and some east east east- are making moves to get the cabinet job of ot the toughest most fearless member of the F D R cabinet Harold cabinet Harold Ickes Icke Jim Patton of Denver head i of the Farmers' Farmers union is one of them Another is Gov Bob Kerr of Oklahoma British list list Attention Attention Ernest Bevin new British minister minister min min- ister of for foreign ign affairs Taker Take a good look at the British black blacklist blacklist list and the way your predecessors sors in the Churchill government were trying to keep a director of I I. I G G. G Farben off oft that list He is Arpad Plesch who not only was waa a director director- of Hitler's largest cartel but attempted some interesting financial transactions transactions transactions trans trans- actions In Switzerland For some ome reason the Churchill government government government govern govern- ment removed Plesch's name from the black list though the U. U S. S treasury vigorously opposed opposed op opposed op- op posed Its It's worth looking Into Mr Bevin Army communists The communists The other day a a. subcommittee of or the house military affairs committee commit commit- tee with Rep Ewing Thomason of ot Texas at Its head released d da a report on U the c records of 16 army officers Investigated ted s as u possible communists The report re report report re- re port was wat the wor work of ot Ralph Rolph Burton counsel for Cor the military affairs committee and close adviser adviser adviser ad ad- to to Chairman Andrew Jackson May of ot Kentucky Rep Hugh DeLacy first first- tenner from Seattle became in interested interested interested in- in vin in in certain things he had heard about Burton and did some researching He verified verified veri veri- fied Burtons Burton's connection as as counsel with Kurt Wilhelm Ludecke Ludecke No No 2 Z American nazi and founder of the American national socialist party more than 10 years ago Instead of or rushing to the house floor with his findings however DeLacy went to subcommittee subcommittee sub flub committee Chairman Thomason Thoma Thoma- son Bon related that he ho had this Information and asked whether ho should submit it to Thomason Thoma Thoma- son in the form of a letter Are you sure of your facts 1 Thomason asked DeLacy said he was Well U Im I'm sure not going to put up my shoulder to protect anyone with nazi connections connection Thomason replied If youve you've got gol your facts nailed down BO so youre you're oure sure of them you go on the floor and make a speech about It IL I want to hear It It That Is b exactly what DeLacy DeLacy DeLacy De De- Lacy did But almost no one knew at the time that he was talking with approval of or the chairman of or the subcommittee who whose e counsel he was attacking |