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Show - - 4e DRW4 ON ONWashington Wasatagtea Wash1n'ton Wash1nton Washington & ' . , D CMFETING 0 C 0MrETING MrETING IUrETING MFETING WITH WITII TIlE TIlEPItESIDENT TILEPItE8ZDENT THEPRESIDENT THEPRESIDENTCertain PItESIDENT PItE8ZDENT PItE8ZDENTCertain Certain senators who have been beei beenworking beeiworking beerworking working backstage for a stream streamlined streamlined streamlined lined war cabinet got ; Home lIome some Inter Inter- Interesting intereating Interesting - esting eating ammunition when they crossexamined crosl- crosl cross croslexamined cross-examined cross examined - - examined one of at the President s sclose I Iclose lclo close e anoclates assocIates at a closed door dooi doorcommittee dooicommittee doorcommittee committee meetlneThey meetingThey meeting meetlne meetingThey They learned that cabinet meetings meet meetIng meetIngs Ing ings . except tor for an Increase in the lbs thenumber lbsnumber thenumber number of participants . still .Ull Ull are be beIng be being . ing conducted on an Iptormal tpformal Iriformal . . , crack cracker cracker cracker er barrel basis with wth { no plan orIystem Os Ossystem or system Iystem systemThe IystemThe The weekl weekly , . mee.tlnffs meetlnffs met\tJngs met tJngs met1ngs \ . are conduct conduct- conducted conducted conducted - - ed without an agenda Cabinet offlcers of officers . ficers flcers cers and agency heads never know kno.a knoa knowwhat kno.awhat knowwhat . what will be discussed dbcussed from trom week weekto weekto weekto to week frequently trequently come unpre unprepared unprepared unprepared pared for policy poHcy questions that af- af afteet affect af affect - - fect teet them themSenators themSenators th m mSenatora Senatora Senators who have been d gglnginto gglng gglngInto ClingInto Into the matter mutter feel ( eel that the White WhiteHouse Whitehouse WhiteHouse House secretariat should contact de department department department partment and agency heads several severaldays severaldays severaldays days before a cabinet meeting to tolearn tolearn tolearn learn what problems they want to todiscuss todiscuss todiscuss discuss with the President On the thebasis thebasis thebasis basis ot of this thJa aa as well aa as matters the thePrt'sldent thePresident thePresident Prt'sldent Prtsldent President ' hJmaelf hJmseU himsell Intends to bring bringup bringup bringup up an advance memorandum could couldbe couldbe couldbe be prepared and distributed d1stributed betore before betorethe beforethe beforethe the meetingBesides meetingBesides meeting meetingBolides Bolides Besides regular reirUlar cabinet omcen offlcer officersthere , . , there are usuaU usually , . a dozen other top topgovernment topgovernment topgovernment government officials omcials at White House Housesessions Housesessions Housesessions sessions including Harry Hopkin Hopkins HopkinsManpower HopklnsManpower . 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LeahyTime I.eahyTime Time waa was when disputes between betweendepartments betweentepartments betweendepartments departments tepartments and agencies agenclel were wereironed wereIroned wereIroned ironed out at a cabinet meeting meeUng but butnot butaot butaot not aot aow now Even disputes afrectlna aftectng afrectlnama'or aftectngmajor aTectingmajor ( ( ma'or maor major ' military mlUtary and domestic pollDIes poll polldes pollclea des DIes are paased passed over Favorite trick trickof trickf trickat of ) f department heads who have a atlckHsh aticklish aticklish tlckHsh ticklish matter on their minda minds la Is to towalt towait towait walt wait until unUI the meeting la Is finished finishedthen finishedthen finishedthen then pass palll a & note to the President Presidentstatlnl Presidenttinting Presidentstating statlnl tinting their particular problem problemwith problemwith problemwith with a request for tor a private audi audience auditnce audience ence tnce . . . tnceFOUIJ rOUB FOUR FOUIJ GERMANB GERMANS WATCH U 8 AThere AThere A AThere There are four Germana Germans who whoknow whomow whoknow know mow the United Stales States better than thanany thanmy thanany any my others Where they are now nowreveals noweveals nowreveals reveals eveals what Importance importsnce Hitler at attaches ataches attachea taches aches to tQ t . , the Uni'ed Unied United ' * Statea State States . and Its ItsInfluence itsnfiuence Itainfluence Influence nfiuence on the neutral countries countriesFor countries'or countrleaFor For 'or or ' all tour four Germans are located locatedin locatedla locatedn in n key aleutral deutral fleutral capltala capitals where they theycan theyan theycan can an watch Americans and keep their theirearl theirtars theireara earl tars open tor far aews pewl news of U f S dlplo 41plo-- 41plo 41plomatJc diplo- diplo diplozsatlc dlplomatte - - matte matJc zsatlc and military mlHtary maneuvers and andcounteract andounteract andcounteract counteract ounteract American In influenceHere Influence InfluenceHere uence uenceHere Here are the four tour German experts expertaon expertson expertsIfl on Ifl the USA USAFranz U S AFranz A AFranz Franz von Papen German mill milltary millary milltary tary ary attache la in Washington during duringthe duringhe duringthe the he last war when he engineered engineeredplans engineeredtians engineeredplans plans tians to blow up the Well Welland and canal canaland canalnd canaland and nd brain trusted varloua various other othersabotage otherabotage othersabotage othersabotageHans sabotage abotage sabotageHans abotageHans Hans Helnrick Helnrlck Heinrick Dieckhoff Dleckhofr DieckhofT ex cx ambas ambasaador ambasador ambassador aador ador to Washington and one of ot the themost thefloat themost most float akillful skillful to be stationed here in inyears inears Layears years ears . . 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DEFEAT IN IIIJItMATtecent BURMA IIIJItMA BURMARecent Recent Ttecent events In Burma unf out rt I Inatety Istely inately natety stely have pretty much p ir II it ctured cturcd cturedthe cturcdte cturedthe the te one time world beating reputa repute reputatioY reputenu reputaUonofGen tioY nu ) of Gen Sir Archibald P Wavell Wavelllupreme Wavellipreme Wnvellsupreme lupreme ipreme corn com i 1 ander in m the India IndiaBurma Indiaurma IndiaBurma Burma urma theaterThe theaterThe theater theaterThe The Jars Ja s are 8fe rep rt'p rtp ' rtcd rled rted to have haveonly haveuIy haveonly only uIy ab ut 50 000 n n ' en E'n in B rma rmaHoW rmaHoy HoW osr ' " many the Brltl British h have In the theentire therttfre theenttr'e theenttre entire rttfre ' In Inlln Inila 1Ia arci arc'1 arc1 arei ' is a a n I 1 tary lary secret secretbut secretUt secretbut but Ut tt it cant can t be he less IE'SS IESS ' U tl ila a * a milli mill I n nHowever nOwever nHowever However Owever there Is ne lie factor ( actor mitt miti mittgaUng mitia14ng millgaUng gaUng a14ng tha the othtrw otherw se dismal fiasco fiascoof fiascot flascoat of t General Wavell n ost oat of o ( his hisarmy hisIToy hisarmy army I-Toy I Toy - Is la IndianIndian Indianindian Indian IndianIndian Indian troop troops have f ( Kht ght ht well weli In Inotbu inthat Inether otbu that wars l 1 it not 001 n 0 this oneGftlerallssn oneeneralissin one Geaerallssin Gftlerallssn eneralissin ! o 0 Clldl Cl hit i < ii e g Kni 1\.al 1.al 1 .al al hal \ . 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Generals Giraud and DcGaulle Dt'Gaulle DtGaulle DeGauIleare DcGaulleare Dt'Gaullere ' are re going to unite UI1lte on at least I'ast Iast ( ' one onethingan onetingan onething thing-an thing an ting-an ting - an ultimatum to Admiral AdmiralRobert Admiralobert AdmiralRobert Robert obert ol of Martinique that he resign resignc.WPB resignWPB resignC.WPB resignCWPB c.WPB cWPB . . 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