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Show Memos to All Editors: The antl-Roosevclts are using this: A Republican (Chicago) paper s reporter re-porter asked Bob HannegmK "Who'll be your candidate in 43 Truman?" "Nope," Hannegan replied .don t forget this is an alleged joke), "not strong enough. The public apparently appar-ently no like." "Could it be Wallace?" pumped the reuorter. "Hell, no! Can't take chances with him. They think he's a Red.' "Well," said the scribe, "if ain't Truman or Wallace, who do you think it might be?" Oh," said Hannegan, "I dunno. There's plenty of time. We'll dig up someone." "Oh, NO!" roared the Republi-crat, Republi-crat, "not HIM!" Prof. Manne Siegbahn's trip here is for several confs with Einstein. He's Sweden's top atoman (collab-ber (collab-ber of Lise Meitner). . . . The influential in-fluential members on Eisenhower's staff are for "complete remobiliza- j tion." ... Dr. Paul Scheffer (see I clips in morgue) was once chief of j nazi spy ring in Russia. Now very 1 active here. One of the top propa- J gandists for "getting the U. S. into 1 a war with Russia soon as possible." . . . When Field Marshal Montgomery Montgom-ery was honor-guest (at the Barbi-zon-Plaza) a man, en route to the 30ii floor, was hauled back into the elevator and made to identify himself him-self before the law in the foyer. Said to be J. D. Rockefeller Jr.l Add significant Kuss-U, S. notes: The Russian purchasing commission in Washington (which numbers about 300 expert ex-pert Soviet engineers and technicians) tech-nicians) is discharging its U. S. employees, preparatory to shutting shut-ting down Jan. 1. That means, I'm told, tlie Russians do not expect to buy from us any more the way things stand now, etc. Reminder: Great Britain and Russia signed a non-aggression treaty in 1941. Which side would British be on in event of conflict, con-flict, considering treaties are pieces of papyrus? . . . Big news expected from Puerto Rico during next few months. Break said to come between be-tween Luis Munos Marin, president of the senate there and most powerful power-ful political figure in islands and Jesus Pinero, Truman's appointment for the governorship. . . . Cost of atombs are down to a mere million each. That sounds expensive, but look at it this way: The entire civilized civ-ilized world can now be destroyed for less than the war cost the U. S., 70 billion. Reason Russians so cocky lately is they allegedly have cosmic ray bomb. Plan inviting invit-ing Americans and other nations to a demonstration of the new weapon in their "war of nerves." , , . Insiders unimpressed, unim-pressed, claiming we have a weapon that makes the Atomb obsolete. . . . Senator Bob La-Follette La-Follette may head a non-gov't committee to study all phases of ' modernizing the federal gov't. This new outfit will be financed by wealthy citizens, some of whom held high gov't posts during the war. N. Y. Novelette: The ABC network net-work had a correspondent in Tokyo. His name, Joe Julian. ... He went to Hiroshima to do , a broadcast months after the atomb fell. ... As Julian walked along rubble-strewn streets he met a man on a bike, who introduced himself. . . . "I'm the Reverend Tanimoto," he said. ... He was of great help to the broadcaster in getting material, etc. ... A year later Julian (who is also an actor) found himself jobless. . . . Last week, while wandering about Radio city he was spotted by tlie director of the John Hersey-Hiroshima Hersey-Hiroshima broadcast. Julian was engaged to read one of the parts. ... It was the role of the stranger Joe met in Hiroshima the Rev. Tanimoto! The Late Watch: Elliott got 25 Gs for that mag series. . . . Truman (as we first hinted long ago) personally per-sonally doesn't want to run again. If he does, they'll have to drag him via the draft. That explains why he is so "candid." . . . The White House is spreading happiness to the Germans in Germany and to the Republicans in America. . . . Our foreign policy is about as clear as the mud diplomats have been throwing throw-ing at each other. . . . Too many American leaders are arguing about our foreign policy instead of explaining explain-ing it. Mr. Peron's Austrian friend, Fritz Mandl, reported inquiring about possibilities of buying a newspaper here or Philly. His Buenos Aires office is working with experts on preparations for a news syndicate and newspaper chain for Latin America. . . . Argentina will use all dollar assets to purchase military mili-tary equipment and machinery from U. S. . . . British and U. S. brass in Japan not hitting it off toe well. The Tommies feel they are being treated like sojers of a 2na-rate power. |