Show ROUND MERRY lilienthal Due For Okeh In Committee By DREW V PEARSON W WASHINGTON You You can jot it down as certain that David E. E will pass the first test In his fight for senate confirmation con con- approval approval by senate members of the Joint atomic energy committee Even Senator Ed Johnson who some weeks ago ag ago Issued a public blast against him will finally vote vot for him Anything less than a decisive majority for Lilienthal in the senate committee would seriously seriously seri seriously hamper his confirmation fight on the senate floor However some highly confidential confidential confidential nose counting shows show that Li Lilienthal has an e ex excellent x c cell e 11 e n a t chance of being approved unanimously unanimously unanimously by the senate committee headed by G 0 O P Senator Bourke of Iowa Only dissenter may be bc Senator John W. W Bricker Bricker- of Ohio The only doubtful Democrat regarding Lilienthal hitherto has been Colorado's Colorados Ed Johnson who now tells friends that earlier carner news stories misrepresented his views and that actually he ho has always been for Lilienthal Old Army Game Game It It looks as asIf asif asif if the old army game of power politics was just as flourishing as everOne ever One indication is the latest promotion list featuring the name of John C. C H. H Lee for permanent permanent permanent per per- manent promotion to major gen gen- eral In the army Lee is nicknamed nicKnamed nicknamed nick nicK- named Court House because of his two middle initials and the fact that he stands In with the court house gang During the war the war he was famous for having his own private railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road train always standing in a London railway station with steam up To soldiers who visited Paris he was also famous for forthe forthe forthe the sign In front of the swank George V hotel which General Lee commandeered for himself The sign read This is the personal personal personal per per- residence of General John C. C H. H Lee Officers billeted here will consider themselves his personal personal personal per per- guests Much more important and serious serious serious-as as far as winning the war was concerned was General Lees Lee's operation of transport between between between be be- tween the French channel ports and the fighting front Slowness of bringing up supplies and ammunition ammunition ammunition am am- made him the target of vehement criticism Some of the delay was unavoidable and had hadit hadit hadit it not been for General Lees Lee's grandiose manner the criticism would not have been so violent One illustration of his highhandedness highhandedness high high- handedness h hit hitherto i t h her e r t o 0 unpublished unpublished unpublished took place at Havre where a German bomb had struck a U. U S. S munitions ship leaving it belching smoke largely above water its live ammunition a y menace to other shipping It was expected to explode any minute A A. Heroic Colonel Despite this Colonel T. T R R. Snyder in charge of the port operation went aboard the still smoking ship with one assistant nt Ordering his launch to stand some distance away Snyder spent three hours examining all of the ship above water He then decided that the ammunition desperately needed at the front could be unloaded So for two days a detail worked aboard the ship under Colonel Snyder finally got off oft all the ammunition except for some big shells below the water line Une By this time the sea was running running run run- ning high the ship was in greater danger and Colonel Snyder ordered ordered ordered or or- dered his men ashore There he hemet hemet hemet met General Lee who instead of praising the men for their bravery bravery brav bra v- v ery gave Snyder an oral order to take his crew back aboard ship and unload the shells under the water line Colonel Snyder could not argue with a general Instead he took out his notebook scribbled something something something some some- thing then turned to General Lee General he said under the articles of war you have the right to give me an oral order but I also have the right to write out that order and ask you to sign It I have written out your order that these men return to the ship I must ask you to sign it General Lee however He refused to put his name to toan toan toan an order that he was quite willing willing will will- ing to give orally That is the man who while scores of other line first-line fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing officers were passed over got his promotion the other ther day dayas as permanent major general The court ourt house game still seems to pay Copyright 1947 Bell Syndicate |