Show Round Merry Round Merry Webb Will Chang Change Old-Fashioned Old Methods in In State J 1 By Drew Pearson V WASHINGTON At At a a. White HOt press conference in 1946 1916 newsmen know W ing a new director of the budget had j just W t been selected asked P President resident for Cor his name The president hesitate fumbled on his desk for fora a piece o of pape paper picked it up and read tho the name James E E. Webb he said It was obvious from Truman's Truman 5 sA tion that he had not known Webb before J In the two years that have passed how hoJ how ever budget director Webb has so O mm won won the confidence of Harry Truman that list last week he was app appointed to to the No 2 sr spot t in American foreign n affairs affairs w r of state slate tary tart r rAs As such his job will be to oil tl th creaking state department machinery an and Ind fire some of the diplomatic doodlers w IIa H. was picked personally by Truman for thil job and will run the thc state department leaving Acheson free to run foreign affairs affairs' Webb will be Truman's Z romans man AS surly suC such there is of course the risk of setting y im up P more Sumner Welles-Cordell Welles Hull t type Hull fric fric- tion Webb however Is easy to get gel getaW alon g with knows almost nothing about foreign affairs but has had about as gOO good g J a aa is efficiency training in and out of ot govern ment as any young man in Washington Note Note Note-As As undersecretary of sta ata state Webbs Webb's policies will be bc on the side As di director ector of the he of budget he 1 nut t universal uni military training ahead of oC aid to io education And despite President Tl Tru Ih mans man's vigorous election campaign fw tri health and social welfare Webb recently chopped every cent for health out of- of of the h. h Alaskan budget J Business Labor Farll n iness Conference Conference Conference-AI fl Al bert Goss master master of the national gran had som some interesting advice for Presided Truman when he called at the White While the other day The time has come Mr President s said ld Goss for for business labor Jabor and agriculture to quit thumbing their noses at each oth other l if we ve are to survive these trying times j cl j mounting debt and threats of war Thi leaders of all three groups must sit dour Ami around the table and start pulling r l as a team to keep our democratic syster n functioning E J Truman sa said d he thought the idea ofie conference among business labor and tarn farn leaders was a good one and promised ti tr think it over o J I 4 Merry At At 7 a am m m. on gural day President Truman will break with the little group of men he command c in World War Var I battery I-battery battery D fi artillery The high point of the will be when Cap Captain tam Truman calls calli til roll of his wartime comrades Mad Madre Hadaa Chiang Kai shek has about completed complete m i deal to purchase a room 30 mansion U estate in Virginia It will cost All three services will get equal in the presidents president's inaugural parade parade th thai to army chief of staff Omar Bradley t to ride at the head of the parade parades it a marshal Bradley accepted the honor Bu Brt he privately got on the phone and asked chief of naval operations Louis Denied Denfeld and air force chief of staff Hoyt Vanden berg to ride with him President Truman Tru man wants his White House chief of BW staff Admiral William Villiam Leahy to write Tile a book telling the story behind the wartime Big Bil Three conferences Maines Maine's G GO GOP 0 P Sen Sea Senator ator Owen Brewster is now championing the navy cause in a magazine article called The Navy Takes to the Air Air Writ ing for the Aero Digest Brewster choo choose sides in the air navy force controversy refers to their bitter squabble over aj ag aF proportions as a healthy struggle for tor funds J t |