Show ROUND MERRY Friends Fight For Favor Of President By fly DREW V PEARSON WASHINGTON Around every pre president always rages i a battle of ot courtiers all trying to tc get close to the throne Harry Truman ruman is no exception Around Roosevelt hottest t rivalry ri rivalry rivalry ri- ri valry was between Harry Hopkins Hopkins Hop- Hop kins and Tommy Corcoran both boll at one time close to F FD D R both bott good friends Then the two fell apart and gradually Harry forced Tommy out of ot the WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House picture Today the thc same old battle to stay close to the throne is going going going go go- ing on over Truman The unpublicized unpublicized unpublicized un- un publicized struggle Is taking place between two of the presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's closest friends George friends George Allen of Mississippi and Bob Hannegan of Missouri Like Hopkins and Corcoran these two were once good friends It was Hannegan who put Allen Alien in the White House Houle to act as his personal representative representative represent represent- and keep his finger on political moves Today however however however how how- ever the only thing they have in common is their individual affection affection affection af af- for Harry Truman In fact the breach has become II so eo wide that Allen played a big part in fomenting the Dixie Democratic cratic revolt against Han Han- George who is one of the most likeable men in WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington has hosts of friends among the wing right-wing Demo Demo- He speaks their language language language lan lan- guage and quietly though gleefully gleefully gleefully glee glee- fully he stirred up the southern rebellion agai against 1st the Democratic national chairman Hannegan in turn has been sorely disappointed in Allen Alien and has made no great secret of the fact that he considers George Georg a bad influence Capital Chaff Senator Chaff Senator Tafts Taft's speech attacking the British loan was partly inspired by Bernard Bernard Bernard Ber Ber- nard Baruch and Jesse Jones They both had a hand in the writing The Spanish ambassador ambassador ambassador ambas ambas- has been feeding pro- pro Franco propaganda to Ed stettin Stet- Stet tinius tin Ius through of all people Iranian Ambassador Ala Last t week the Spanish ambassador sent word to through Ala that the Russians were smuggling guns to French and Spanish communists at the Spanish border To Secretary of State James Byrnes and Senators Senators Senators Sen Sen- Tom Connally and Arthur I the most troublesome troublesome troublesome trouble trouble- some thing at the United Nations Nations' Nations Nations' Nations Nations' Na Na- security council meeting in New York was the sympathy of Secretary General Trygve Lie for the Russian cause They have been discussing among themselves the possibility of easing casing Lie elected for a five- five year term out of his job The soviet evacuation of Iran has finally begun to move on a a. large scale though U. U S. S S and British diplomats in Iran doubt whether the Russians will complete complete complete com com- their evacuation by May 6 Justice Justic Stone on Russia Russia One One thing overlooked in all the obituaries obituaries obituaries obit obit- of Chief Chic Justice Harlan F. F Stone was that he was a vigorous advocate of recognition recognition tion for Russia after World War Var I. I I Though he didn't declare himself himself himself him him- self publicly Stone strongly advised advised advised ad ad- President Coolidge that the United States should take the lead in resuming diplomatic relations As attorney general he told Coolidge it was none of our business business business busi busi- ness what type of government Russia had as long as the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian people themselves accepted it it- it and that idealistic reasons were not sufficient grounds forone for forone forone one nation withholding recognition recognition tion of another However Coolidge did not take Stones Stone's advice Paris Bans While Hollywood While France clamors for a loan in inthe inthe inthe the U. U S. S American business firms are running into a stone stonewall stonewall stonewall wall in getting certain kinds of business done with France Am American rican films are an example Although it is over a year since the liberation of France the only American films f imported imported imported im im- ported since the fall of Paris in Jn 1940 are arc 40 brought in by the theO theo O 0 WI V IV I while the war was still on Every attempt to negotiate neg a anew anew anew new arrangement has met with rebuffs from the French who insist that their primary duty is isto isto isto to protect the r reviving vi French movie industry The best the French have offered offered of ol- Hollywood so far is an arr arrangement guaranteeing 55 per cent of all playing time to French films with the French the British the Ru Russians ians and every one else competing with Hollywood for tor the remaining 45 per cent So far the state department and Hollywood negotiators have not been able to get what they consider a fair compromise compromise- and there Is talk now of refusing to send any pictures to France and simultaneously freezing French pictures out of the U U. 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