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Show J. N. Shuns Spain rNSIDE REASON why the Amerl- can delegation to the United Na-iions Na-iions abstained from voting on Spain was because Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt threatened to denounce the state department publicly if it voted for Franco. Warren Austin, the U.S. delegate, was all set to vote for sending ambassadors am-bassadors back to Spain when Mrs. Roosevelt found out about it. Immediately she telephoned secretary of state Acheson and gave him her very blunt views on getting cozy with a dictator who had played ball with Hitler and Mussolini during the war. Any move to embrace him, Mrs. R. told Acheson, would only embarrass the truly democratic demo-cratic nations of western Europe and play into the hands of the Communist propaganda machine at a critical time in world affairs. Acheson seemed impressed with Mrs. Roosevelt's argument and suggested as a compromise that the American delegation abstain when the vote came up. He further promised to issue a statement blasting Franco as a dictator created with the help of Hitler and Mussolini, which he later did. This satisfied Mrs. Roosevelt and she has said nothing more about thf matter. Senatorial Triangle The two women who are fighting over Sen. Harry Cain, Republican of Washington actually came face to face the other day. Mrs. Cain, who was put on notice by her husband in a public press conference that he was divorcing her, nevertheless turned the other cheek and went to the hospital to visit the sick senator. While there, Miss Mary Hall, a senate secretary who may marry Senator Cain after the divorce, also arrived for a visit. The sudden meeting was too much for Mrs. Cain and she lashed out at Miss Hall for stealing the senator's affections. affec-tions. "Ton may have the game," she sizzled, "but you'll never get the name." Later both women cooled off and walked out of the hospital together. to-gether. The Cain divorce is supposed to become final on June 14. The lawyer who is handling the matter for Senator Cain in Tacoma, Wash., is Ed Eisenhower, Ike's brother. Rent Control Battle The legislatures of Alabama, Texas, Nebraska and Florida now are considering bills introduced by real estate interests to abandon rent control. One of the public-opinion gimmicks put out by some of the real estate boys is that a state can temporarily get rid of rent control, then later restore re-store it under the rent act recently re-cently passed by Congress. However, this is not the case. The rent-control act passed by congress con-gress categorically and definitely bars any reinstatement of federal rent control if a state or city once votes to decontrol. In other words, if a state or city once breaks away from the rent-control program it can never come back again. Atomic Contracts Painstaking, persevering Sen. Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming has been applying the scourge to big monopolies monop-olies for years. Now he has come up with revealing information on the way big corporations handle big contracts with the government. In 1946 the atomic energy commission com-mission signed a contract with General Electric for atomic energy work at Hanford, Wash., and Schenectady, N. Y., under which G. E. was paid all its costs plus a fixed fee of $1. The total amount obligated under this contract was 370 million dollars, of which seven million was paid to General Electric Elec-tric for salaries, training of personnel, per-sonnel, etc. Meanwhile, Senator O'Mahoney O'Ma-honey points out that it has become be-come a common practice of the atomic energy commission to get around congressional appropriations ap-propriations by authorizing blanket contracts in such a way that Congress cannot judge their validity. In the current year, for instance the commission has contract ap propriations of 600 million dollar: and congress has no way of knowing know-ing what it's all about. British Compromise American Ambassador Leightoi Stuart in China is mad as a home at the British for trying to make ; deal with the Chinese Communist, behind his back. Without telling Stuart a word British representatives talked will the Chinese Communists twice. B: accident Stuart has discovered tha what the British have proposed i. this: If the Chinese Communist let the British keep Hong Kong, thi British government then will bi willing to recognize the Reds. |