| Show I Merry Go err o- o oun r t i Truman ruman Decision 0 n On n a r en 1 r i Forced orce by Mrs rs W. W B By y Drew v Pearson t V WASHINGTON It It was Mrs Irs Mon Wal Wai gren wife of t the e likable buffeted ex go of Washington who finally cause caus President Truman to withdraw her hu I bands band's name as aR chairman of the Natio Nations Nation Security Resources Resource board t 1 Once before belore ren had offered t drop out of the battle for senate confirm confirma lion tion but Truman wouldn't hear of It Th senates senate's rejection was taken as a person perso slap at Truman and he asked his old sate s 8 aes ate buddy to stick it out j. j This week however Mrs to her husband she couldn't take It any longe pleaded with him to categorically withdraw It was only then that Truman agreed t fr r i an A l senator is fed up wi Washington D D. D C. C has several private j ji t r offers wants to see no more of government But the tragic fact remains that Mi M mule stubbornness in the White Hou Hon has bogged bog down one of the most moat vi vit bureaus bUreau of government go The National S Resources board created to pl pI ph the economy of the nation in case cal of eme erne gency and potentially the most moat power agency in Washington has been headle beadle its morale dropped to zero with resl resi epidemic and leaderless personnel J each others other's throats i Top Secrecy J Cloak What Cloak What goes on I 1 Iside iside side the board is top secret but certain certai the public Is at least entitled to whether it ills is functioning smoothly Despi I this officials are using th the cloak of secre to hide what the board isn't doing of what It is doing Ir i Here is an illustration of how the i crecy run-around run works t 4 J When this column inquired how m times the board had met since appointment press chief Charlie Schwa sadly replied that this was classified in mation nation He couldn't produce a directs direct showing it was classified but the seer H. H Dewayne Kreager had told 1 so Later Schwarz called to say that 1 J had found the minutes of the board agri ing not to tell what went on at the m me ings He interpreted this to mean that t number of meetings should also be k ke secret i. i Real truth is the board hasn't met metr j jall all since the fight began TJ OJ was revealed by a less cautious board of i I Io cial who quickly added that the b boa bo- o probably meets informally after cab cabin t r mee meetings t. t l Steelman Too Busy The Busy The board has b be given some direction by presidential fi I John Steelman the pinch hit time part chairman But Steelman alre had his hands full before re he took on extra burden t c r Meanwhile other key men have b dropping out like Indians biting the tho d duff t vice vice chairman R R. E. E Gilmore who w Iback I 1 back to Sperry Gyroscope general co cosel coset col sel set Kenneth D D. Johnson who took a job la laa a dean at Columbia university director t 1 production George Felton who returned a it his leather factories in New England director of economic management E. E Grether who returned to the University California s l' l Underlings have been moved up i f ithe ii the vacancies left by Johnson and Fel Felt But Gilmore and Grether haven't even b be replaced 1 The board also is looking for repta ments for more than 30 lesser lights became discouraged and quit Those 1 are feuding over policy or b bing bi ing over lack of work One fight is o 0 othe the establishment of a board boar l of exp on industrial production information S Si by economics Gl L L McLaughlin this was opposed by oth S x who claim they can find the product answers without powered high-powered help r Its It's going to take heroic efforts by I new chairman to get this vital agency b bon bon on the track i 1 t Note Truman Note Truman fought with every p po pol cal trick in the book to get o s i firmed He wheedled threatened a ff et ea si offered job bribes to senators who vo 0 3 1 against Senator Harry By Byrd cs Virginia received a visit from 5 2 national chairman McGrath who slyly slyly Jit what it would take tale to change B I vote yote Republican Senator Morse orse of Ore t who voted against also go got offer to become U. U S. S circuit judge on west coast while Senator Baldwin of C another anti accepted a supreme court judgeship in instate state though Baldwin had long long-cheris S personal reasons for going on the ben beni i l Capital News Capsule General Capsule General Ma Ma Mathur l j f thur has urgently requested that a big wil wilment ment of American arms and n sent to South Korea immediately to Communist anti-Communist government go up the President Rhee MacArthur P passed asked on the word that the Comm Comm i government of North Korea is getting arms shipments from Russia j its army which has Russian officers try to take southern Korea by f MacArthur recommends that enough r ra 5 ST machine guns and artillery be sent to toa too I i ia a South Korean army of men 1 |
