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Show IMerry-Go-Rounc Cabinet Members Divided on Pound Proposals By Drew Peareea WASHINGTON Before Secretary of tha Treaaury Snyder left for kurope ha had a highly important and secret talk with President Truman tat which ha outlined hi plana for getting tha British to devalue the pound. Thie la tha real purpoae of Snyder's suo den trip despite all tha publicity camouflage camou-flage about consultation with U. S. financial experts. Reasona for the csmouflage la that the treaaury doesn't want the Brltleh public to know that we are trying to run their currency from thla aide of tha Atlantic. At-lantic. Inaide fact la that Sir Stafford Crlppa, head of the British economy, haa already staged flatly that if Snyder Insists on devaluing de-valuing tha pound, he will resign. This will mean a general election in England: so tha Brltleh publio might just aa well get wise at the start Three members of the Truman cabinet also disagree with Snyder Secretary of State Acaesoa, Secretary of Agriculture Brannan and Secretary of Labor Tobin. Brannan and Tobin don't want to devalue de-value the pound because the less value -pound haa the less It will buy of American cotton, tobacco, pork, ate. Sir Stafford Crlppa haa somewhat tha aame thing In mind though from a different angle. If the pound is depreciated, the British consumer con-sumer will not be able to Import aa much food for hie money though Crlppa wants the food to be imported from the British dominions and Argentina, not from tha Backing up Snyder against the three cabinet member la Paul Hoffman, head of EC A, who feara the collapse of hla Marshall Mar-shall plan unleaa the pound la devalued. In fact, Marshall Plan Ambassador Averell Harrlman haa been pressuring the British so vigorously, even before Snyder arrived, that lanky Sir Oliver Franks, the British ' ambassador In Washington, waa rushed to London by air to help take tha heat off. Despite the strong differences within hie own cabinet, and tha above raralficationa, Truman gave Secretary Snyder a completely complete-ly free hand in dealing with the financial crisis. ' No "Senator Dewey" Governor Dewey telephoned bis old friend. Senator Irving Ives, from Albany the other day to get some advice oa who he ahould appoint to the temporary senate vacancy left by retiring re-tiring Robert Wagner. (Dewey Thursday named John Foster Dulles to tha vacancy.) "Why don't you come down to Washington Wash-ington yourself?" urges Ivea. "No," replied Dewey, "I don't want to." Instead, be aald he waa considering two alternatives one to appoint a personal friend such aa Dullea or Roger Strauss to finish out the senate year; or to appoint a atrong politician who would have a chance to win against the Democrats next November. No-vember. I" the Utter category he placed General (Wild Bill) Donovan, famous World War I hero and head of the O 8 S super-spy agency . In World War n. a Tom OirrsaTwevr -York secretary of state. Ivea suggested that Dewey ahould appoint ap-point tha latter type one who could use the four-month period before November to eoneolldate hia strength and try to win against tha Democrats. Ivea also added that aince he waa a Presbyterian, he thought tha new senator ahould be a Catholic. Note Dewey also mentioned two women ' aa poeelble senatorial choices Jane Todd and Mary Donlon. Lawyers Dewey sad Dulles Several of John Footer Dulles' New York law asec-"" asec-"" """"'g the announcement that Gov Dewey had appointed the elderly New York lawyer to the senate. "Remember last year," said one, "we thought that Dewey would be elected and we would be able to divide up Dullea' share of the firm's profits?" "Yea," replied another, "the day after i ?'on we were afraid Dewey would lout I "rm, and we would have to cut up our share to divide with Dewey." K-CP'I,a,Nw CJeoftermaths of the Taft-Hartley battle Senator Virgil Chapman of Kentucky, who owea bis alee- Uon entirely to Albaa Berkley, voted against Berkley and the administration right down , the line . . . There waa a lot of fuse ever Senator O'Connor of Maryland, who was brought back to Waahlnrton for the Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley vote. O'Connor lived up to hia ad , vance billing and voted with the admlnia- -tretlon. However, when the heat waa oft he quietly switched ever to Tart's aide and voted for the Injunction that he had earlier opposed. Thla waa also true of Tydlnga of Maryland, Freer of Delaware (Democrats) aad Ledge of Massachusetts (Republican) - On vote would have changed the entire Taft-Hartley picture, thus creating a tie ft-! f."0 for Vl President Berkley -to break the tie. Three senators, according to Senator Lucas, were pledged to vote wrth labor, but switched at the last minute e'!!?rL ? Ind'ana, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, and Hendnckaoa of Nsw J,,T - Senator Luces' akllltut handilnr jLUTWH.lrU5r ftnt enough hs rt-wUl "'P "is difficult reeleotlonnanoes ' Lia?' Th who really defeated de-feated Lucas waa Byrd of Virginia, who had promised Senator Tart to oearrer the votes of is aouthera Democrats, sod did. After BtaBaf StaUn's sianeeaia gl.is S'TCS'Jf T"t 'end rag. mg within the politburo ever who succeed Stalin, as the dictator of Russia. One poUtburo group support Molotov. another an-other Geirgi Maleakov, who Is emerging as the new strong man la Russia. Malenkov : haa buret into prominence by wircewlliis Andrei Zhdanov, recently dead under mysterious mys-terious circumstances. Iiasog Gets Bored Admiral Cbestar Nlmlta Is fed up with dieting the India sad Pakistan dispute and wanta to T home. Neither aide haa made the ell antes move to come to terms and Nanus ass cabled the state department that he'a tired of twiddling hla thumbs Bade ths hot -India sun. , Hard so Lobbyists The lobbyists are com plaining the loudest about tha remodeling remodel-ing oa Capitol Hia While tne senate chamber cham-ber la closed down, there won't be room la the temporary chamber for vial tore or lobbyists. lob-byists. Incidentally, the temporary chamber will be so cramped that the eapitoi architect archi-tect has secretly ordered a supply of turn- . ber to remodel s larger room ta the senate office building Just m ease the senators went put up with ths mooovoruanoe. |
