Show 0 6 H U H ON i 1 0 LOUD LORD HALIFAX L nr C dignified viscount halifax ax british ambassador sidor and former foreign minister ot of great britain w was en at dinner at the british embassy bassy the time hid had conic tor for his 9 blasts icsis to go BO into dinner but they were so busily engaged in conversation that it was difficult for or tho the ambassador to attract their attention how flow shall wo we do this he rip pealed to delightful mrs thurman arnold wife of the justice departments famous trust buster busier down in missouri where I 1 come from she suggested wo we sing out come and get icv so his lordship sang out to his assembled guests corne como and got get TRUMAN FIGHT A hot fight Is shaping up in the senate over continuation 0 of tho the truman committee friends of jesse jones WID boss donald nelson and others who have been criticized by the committee have quietly been lining up tip support in the senate to force a termination of the truman investigation after the next session of congress convenes enemies of tile the committee thought they won a great victory when tile tho senate voted two days before adjournment journ ment to abolish all of its investigating vesti gating comi committees on january jontar y 31 1043 Ilo however wever farsighted far sighted senator scott lucas of illinois chairman of tho the senate audit and control committee who handled this legislation agreed privately with senator harry S tru min man of missouri that ills his committee will get more funds furthermore one of the first things the truman proberb will examine when the next congress convenes will be the administration and necessity of nationwide nation wide gasoline rationing tio ming ning PASS THE ammunition it been offic officially lally announced yet but when madame chia cheang ng kal shek 0 of china emerges from the hospital she plans to come to washington and camp at the tha white house until she has persuaded to pass tile the ammunition madain badamo e chiang is a very persuasive person she combines orl ori charm with a wellesley education unquestionably she will become chinas cainas ambassador in eff effect act in washington already chinese ambassador wel wei Is wondering whether he orA or Madame ladame chiang real realy represents the chinese government nt but while there may be some doubt on that there Is absolutely no doubt that china wants more planes and wants them quickly this time it Is not the appeal of a desperate people but of a people ready to take the offensive chinese military militar r experts declare that they could do more damage to japan with one plane than british and americans could do with two in the solomons or the east indies reason la is that they can engage the enemy in great numbers for all eastern china is occupied by japan whereas her forces in the pacific are scattered from island to island immediate objective of the chinese drive dri veIt if they are allowed to make ft fi will be bankow mad madame ame chiang will argue that capture of would disorganize the en entire tire transportation system by which the japanese ship supplies overland to indochina indo china chana and burma 1941 1944 Is too late madame chiang also has another powerful or argument up her sleeve that 1044 will be too late the schedule now adopted by the united nations high command to knock off hitler first and then turn on in 1044 Is regarded by the chinese as a dangerous and unsound strategy month by month the japanese are consolidating they are bringing together the rubber tin and oil of the east indies with the iron and coal of north china and welding an industrial system which will be able to run indefinitely no longer will 1 scrap iron be necessary from the outside world it given time madame chiang will argue the japs will complete the gaps in the roll rail lines between singapore an and d china and thus have an overland transinor transi transportation Jor tation route safe rom submarines then no matter bow strong the british and american navies they will be no more able id dent jap supply lines than the japs can dent our communications between san francisco and new york that roughly Is the powerful argument madame chiang kal kai shek will make CAPITAL CHAFF fl f milton eisenhower Elsen hower brother of the U S north african com commander mandir Is a strong string possibility to become a as a to manpower chief paul mcnutt eisenhower Elsen hower now chief of the war relocation authority was born in abilene Ab llene kan eight years after r his army officer brother who was born in denison texas another strong possibility as mc butts nutts assistant Is john steelman the tha crack labor conciliator who however cannot well be spared from his bl present job |