Show i NEWS BEHIN r rB B By AUL LON y Released by Western Newspaper Union CABINET CHANGES LONG EXPECTED IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Henry Morgen Morgen- thaus thau's side of his resignation story told how he had become irritated by constantly recurring rumors of his Impending departure that these were interfering with his work so he went to President Truman and said he would not stay unless he received received received re re- backing Mr Truman offered to deny the rumors Mr thought the denial should promise his continuance continuance con con- In office at least until Japan Japan Japan Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pan is defeated The President seemed to f feel l this would commit him to too far tar Mr wrote out his resignation although he had hadnot hadnot hadnot not planned doing so The other side of the story Im lm- Implies plies that many of Mr Air Truman's highest placed associates were worried about Mr 1 l possibly succeeding to the presidency presidency dency a position for which he would be the first to concede his unfitness by temperament experience experience ex ex- or ability Little note was taken of the situation situation situa situa- tion but it If anything had happened to Mr Truman during the few days interval after he accepted the resignation resignation resignation nation of ot State Secretary and before he appointed James F F. F Byrnes to that first cabinet post would have been President President President dent as next in line Now Truman and Byrnes are going to Berlin for the Big Three conference but not together as a precaution Mr was still clearly next in line until line until His dis is squeezed resignation placed him in ina a position where unquestionably he would have to decline the office This situation may not have worried worried worried wor wor- ried Mr Truman but associates working in his interests no doubt were the authors of what Mr Mor Mor- thought to be irritating ru ru- mors mars Around the top tap of ot this administration admInistration admInis- admInis Mr had been regarded as a man with good New NewYork NewYork NewYork York banking connections but ex ex- ex- ex Now he will continue a athe at atthe atthe the treasury until probably August Augus 15 when his successor Fred M. M Vinson Vinson Vinson Vin Vin- son will take over As a matter of full lull truth Mr l was slated to go any anyway anyway anyway way when his Bretton Woods plan cleared congress and the war ar loan drive wound up There was no logical excuse for tor him to continue to delay fulfillment of the custom permitting a President President dent to choose hIs bis own cabinet without the slightest embarrass embarrass- ment Indeed this column was able to lead off in newspapers last May 24 A IIA complete cabinet shakedown is coming Sta State te and treasury will surely be involved in addition to agriculture agriculture agriculture ag ag- ag- ag justice and labor Both angles of that forecast now have been fulfilled I am therefore inclined to believe both sides o of the story Mr Morgen Morgen- thaus thau's and the untold one that Mr Truman's friends knowing well the personalities Involved nettled Mr into making the break BYRNES APPOINTMENT TO ADD STRENGTH TO CABINET Behind the two great publicized events of foreign affairs the affairs the submission submission submission sub sub- mission of the charter for the new world and the advent of James F F. Byrnes as state secretary the secretary the mills of history are grinding new and greater portents Mr Byrnes Dyrnes Is a canny dealer Up to now our ur foreign policy polley methods have not been sensationally sensationally sensa sensa- bountiful Some doubt is evident in many quarters that we have learned how to deal evenly with the Russians It is thus as much in her interest as of any other nation Otherwise our viewpoint has not won out too many times times not not in the matter of ot Poland Latvia Esthonia Lithuania Turkey the Middle East declaration declaration declaration declara declara- tion of war on Japan and so on down the problem list Now we are going to Berlin for forthe forthe forthe the next conference We have been unable to bring Stalin halfway in the geographical matter of ot meeting places or in any other tion Our dealing with the Soviet Is clearly not yet on a successful plane Another way of putting it and It-and and the Administration no doubt would put it this way way we we have sacrificed everything everything everything every every- thing else in diplomacy in order to get the charter Now we have it we must start making other matters add up better This is where Mr Byrnes comes in These are the considerations behind behind be be- hind his appointment Foreign affairs affairs af af- fairs is the one subject his spectacular spectacular spectacular ular career has not closely touched He is not therefore especially experienced but but he be has seldom been traded down In any line Simultaneously Mr Truman Inan in inan inan an extemporaneous speech at Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City projected a line for lor the charter far beyond its text although no one seemed to notice it He said the world is no longer county state or national size but is one world as Winkle Willkie said |