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Show Jfy DUE W PSAFON A REPORT ON GERMANY Hard-boiled Leon Henderson did some tough talking to President Roosevelt when he arrived back from his economic survey of occupied occu-pied Germany. Henderson was sent by the White House to consult with General Eisenhower regarding the economic setup in Germany after the Armistice. Armi-stice. But, while the former OPA administrator has kept very mum about it, he was quite critical in his verbal report to the President regarding re-garding negligence on the part of the army, the state department and the Anglo-American-Russian com- mission in London regarding plana for running Germany. Henderson told FDR that neither the U. S. military nor the state department had done anything any-thing except the sloppiest sort of planning about running the difficult German civilian economy econo-my after the armistice. TJ. S. Ambassador John Winant in London, Henderson indicated, had been sitting on his haunches as a member of the tripartite commission supposed to look Into this, but doing nothing. Henderson reported that the plan . tor cutting Germany up into three different sections under the British, American and Russian armies simply would not work economically. economical-ly. He pointed out that the German Ger-man railroads were set up to work as a unit, not in three different sections. sec-tions. Likewise with German industries. indus-tries. Henderson proposed, therefore, there-fore, that German civilian economy be run by a civilian commission representing the Allies which would have charge of the entire country. He also proposed that the military take orders from the civilian high commission. What the President will do about the Henderson report remains to be seen. When he suggested that Henderson Hen-derson go back to Germany, the hard-boiled ex-OPA administrator refused. He said tit was impossible to work under the present setup. Instead In-stead he will go to China to make a study of price controls for Chiang. Kai-shek. (Note What some White House advisers fear is that the same chaos and inflation which killed democratic government in Germany after the last war once again will become so ruinous that the German people will fall back on another Hitler or Kaiser.) G.I. JOE AT PEACE TABLE More and more state legislatures and members of congress are urging urg-ing that a G.I. Joe sit at the peace table; also that he begin by sitting in at the important San Francisco United Nations conference. Some further propose that Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state and the man who originally planned for the peace machinery, attend the San Francisco conference, perhaps as adviser ad-viser to the soldier delegate or as an unbiased observer with no ax to grind either for or against any one political party. ' The Maryland and Rhode Island legislatures are the latest to push the idea of a G.I. Joe at the peace table, resolutions being introduced by Charles -M. See of Cumberland, Md., and Joseph Mills of Warwick, War-wick, R. I. The Texas and South Carolina legislatures have already passed resolutions, while Senator Johnston of South Carolina and Representative Rep-resentative Jackson of Washington have introduced resolutions in the U. S. congress urging that the G.I. Joe attend the San Francisco conference con-ference as a starter to the final peace session. They propose that he be no higher than the rank of sergeant. ser-geant. Note The Iowa poll, conducted con-ducted by the Des Moines Sunday Sun-day Register, found that an overwhelming over-whelming majority of Iowans, 83 per cent, favored having a member of the armed forces at the peace table. DEMOCRATIC JOE STILWELL Gen. Joe Stilwell has always rated high with his men. Now that he's stationed in Washington as chief of the army ground forces, he stiU has the reputation of looking sat for them. The other day, Washington realtor Col. Gus Ring, who M used to getting get-ting phone calls from all soni jt important im-portant apartment hunters, was surprised to find General Stilwell walk in his office and ask for an apartment. Stilwell didn't want the apartment for himself, but had traveled trav-eled all the way across Washington to try to get an apartment for the widow of one of Stilwell's junior officers of-ficers who had been killed in action. Note He got the apartment. CAPITOL CHAFF C. Henry Wallace and Loan Administrator Adminis-trator Fred Vinson are getting together to-gether to discuss plans for coordinating coordi-nating the 60,000.000-job program. C As Wallace looked around the room in Jesse Jones' old loan office, ' he said: "I just want to see where the bodies are buried." C. Credit Republican Senator Austin of Vermont with doing one of the best jobs at the recent Mexico City conference. Though not a trained I diplomat, Austin was a tower of sound advice to the U. S. delegp'ion. |