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FRIEND OF ENLISTED MAN ,
U uxhinitton llurenu o f U extern Yew.«-
W ASHINGTO N — If there w eie
paper I nion at /ft/f) I s e S treet, \ II
! m ore men in the a rm y like G eneral
U uxhington, />. (?., i< a b le to bnrut
Eisenhower, this newsman w ould not
re n ile n thi* u e e k h colu m n on p r o b ­
lem s of th e refer an anti x en u erru ri | be so swamped w ith so ld ie r m ail.
The other day Sgt. Samuel Cohen
anti H im fam ily. Q u estion s m a \ be a d ­
d re ss e d to th e a b o ie Ih n em i an d tb es ! of P h ila d e lp h ia , stationed in B e rlin ,
u i l l he u m u e r c tl in a su bsequ en t c o l­ received a cable te llin g of a serious
um n \ <» replies can be nuule d ire ct b \
emergency at home. P hysicians ad­
m oil, bu t only in the colu m n u h ich m i l
vised his re tu rn im m e d ia te ly. Two
ap/rear in this n e m p a p e t reaulurly.
THE
B y P aul M allon
Released bv W estern N r w ip u p tr Union
STATE DEPARTMENT
NEEDS REORGANIZATION
W ASH IN G TO N
What Put H u r
ley said was true.
F o r m any months, evidence ha)
been le a kin g fro m the state d e p a rt
m ent suggesting the perm anent un
d e rly in g c liq u e was unsym pathetic
w ith top p o licy, and u n d e rm in in g
it in subtle little ways. Yet there
was nothing s u ffic ie n tly provable tc
I w a rra n t p rin tin g .
The men w ith in the dep a rtm e n t
who have noticed the condition have
been so frig h te n e d they dared no!
speak, even p riv a te ly , outside of the
d epartm ent.
weeks passed and a ll Cohen got was
the usual a rm y run-around. He
couldn’ t get a furlough. F in a lly , a
In line w ith the Veterans a d m in ­ frie n d suggested th a t Cohen call
is tra tio n 's o b je c tiv e o f ta kin g the G eneral “ Ik e ” d ire c tly .
“ W hat can I lose?” Cohen asked,
a d m in is tra tio n out to the “ grass­
ro o ts” of the co u n try, ra th e r than going to a telephone.
c e n tra lizin g the o rg a n iza tio n
in
When he asked the G I. operator
W ashington. A d m in is tra to r O m ar N
fo r G eneral Eisenhow er, the opera­
B ra d le y has announced the opening to r asked w ith no su rp rise in his
of 21 new c e n tra lly -lo c a te d regional voice w hether he should rin g the
offices and the c o n tra c tin g fo r ap
general at his home o r his office.
p ro x im a te ly 300 advisem ent centers
Because of the stands they
Since it was then about 10 o’ clock
have taken within the depart­
Regional downtown offices were in the evening. Cohen said to try
ment they knew they were sus­
opened in Des Moines. W ichita. A t­ the g eneral's home
pect to the reigning group, and
la n ta , M inneapolis. San F rancisco.
An aide to Eisenhower an­
occasionally thought they were
P o rtland, Ind ia n a p o lis.
Los A n­
swered and listened to Cohen's
being followed or their tele­
geles, Muskogee. O kla.. Phoenix.
story, excused himself for a few
phone conversations tapped.
Helena, M ont., D e tro it, M ilw aukee.
DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR ALL . . . The accused at Nuernberg trials are shown In lower left. They Include
minutes, came hack to the tele­
Even business men dealing
Cleveland. Chicago. N ew ark. H a rt­
Goerlng. Hess, Von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Stretcher, Funk. Sehaeht, Doenlts, Harder,
phone
and
said.
"Sergeant,
if
there have noticed the condi­
fo rd . Charleston, W. Va . and C h a r­
Von Schirach, Sauckel, Jodi. Von Papen, Speer, Von Neurath and Fritsehe. Upper photo shows the court of­
you will call the office of Gen­
tion. compared notes about It
lotte, N. C.
ficials. Lower right, the entrance Is bring carefully guarded by American troops. The records contain his­
eral Clay, perhaps something
among themselves, and won­
torical
evidence that would ordinarily require years of research to compile.
New advisem ent centers were
can be arranged for you.
dered its extent. But until the
opened at G re e n ville , S. C .; Bene­
“ You had better wait about 10
retiring ambassador to China
d ic t college. C olum bia. S. C. ; U n i­
minutes before railing General
spoke out with direct charges,
v e rs ity of Kansas at Kansas C ity.
Clay,” he added “to give Gen­
the matter never reached the
M o.; Tuskegee in stitu te , Tuskegee.
eral Eisenhower a chance to
public
eye.
A la .; E astern Oregon college at I t
talk with him first.”
Grande. Ore., and S uperior State
State S ecretary Byrnes, m y i n ­
Teachers college. S uperior. Wis.
Ten m iqutes la te r, Cohen called fo rm a n ts say. does not know the
Services of the advisem ent centers G eneral C lay, where an aide said. facts, nor did his predecessor, M r
are a va ila b le to a ll veterans p la n ­ “ Oh, yes. sergeant, w e've been ex­ S tettinius. Byrnes prom ised a de­
nin g to continue th e ir education or pecting y o u r call. Now can you come p a rtm e n ta l r e o r g a n i z a t i o n a n d
take vocational o r re h a b ilita tio n in at eight o'clock to m o rro w m o rn ­ brought in a few top men. but this
tra in in g e ith e r under p u b lic law 16 ing? W e 'll see about tra n sp o rta tio n was as fa r as his re o rg a niza tio n
then.”
o r the G.I. b ill o f rights.
went.
Cchen took o ff by a ir the next day
And today, m ore men are being
Regional offices function as the op­
taken in to the clique than are le a v­
e ra tio n a l offices of the a d m in is tra ­ before noon
ing it.
The various b u re a u cra tic
tion. In d iv id u a l case records are
holdovers o f the Roosevelt regim e,
m a in ta in e d at these offices and T R U M A N TURNS R E P O R T E R
C ongressional leaders who met losing th e ir w a r jobs in o ther de­
c la im s are rated and a d judicated
have
been
seeking
A lm o s t a ll benefits a d m in iste re d oy w ith P resident T ru m a n recently to pa rtm e n ts,
the a d m in is tra tio n can be handled discuss serious le g isla tive problem s couches in state.
got a chuckle over T ru m a n ’ s sto ry
I t is a p e c u lia r condition and has
at the regional office level.
about his surprise flig h t to see nis never been a cc u ra te ly defined, net
Q u e s tio n s a n d A n s w e rs
m o th e r on her 93rd b irth d a y .
even by M r. H u rle y in his re s tric t­
Q. In July. 1944. my brother was
Newspapers have a lre a d y told ed charges. The men of the clique
killed on Guam. I was made his how T ru m a n called the Kansas C ity do not hold m eetings and agree to
beneficiary in his insurance policy S ta r to announce his a rr iv a l in underm ine th is o r that. They are
But before he went across he made G ra n d vie w , Mo. B ut in addition, m e re ly o f one m in d on some basic
a will that has never come to light here is w hat T ru m a n told his con­ ideas.
and this is causing some trouble gressional leaders re a lly happened;
F o r one th in g , they are u n sym ­
I t was Sunday afternoon and the pathetic w ith A m e rica n fo re ig n pol­
among the heirs as he was single
Another brother in service says a u su a lly b u stling c ity room of the ic y today. F o r another, they agree
duplicate will was made and kept on S tar was in a lu ll. O nly a skeleton in th e ir d is tru s t o f anyone who
record somewhere. Could you tell e d ito ria l force was on the job, and would question Russia in the s lig h t­
me where this will be kept?
a young re p o rte r answered the est upon any subject. They are not
phone.
K. A. B.. Houston. Mo.
C om m unists but th e ir m inds are
guided by the C o m m u n ist grooves
A. O f course we w ould have no
"This is the President,” said
knowledge where the w ill m ig h t be
of thought.
Truman.
DOLLS TO AID SANTA CLAUS . . . Photo shows left to right, Marilyn MacGregor, Warren, Ohio; Betty Rei­
You m ig h t w rite to the finance o ffi­
ner, Durham, N, C.J Frances Tibbetts, Melrose, Mass., and Elizabeth Peterson, Cornwall, I’a., as they sit
“Who?" said the reporter.
FASCISTS OBJECTED
cer of his outfit. If you are re fe r­
among some of the 1,000 dolls that will be delivered to social agencies and through them to poor children con­
“This is President Truman.”
TO BY STATE CLIQUE
rin g to national life insurance, the
fined in hospitals. The dolls were provided by students at Wellesley college, Wellesley. Mass.
“The hell it is," exclaimed the
O
b
jectionable
things
are
to
them
money w ill be paid to w hoever was
newsman, convineed that some­
“ fa s c is tic ." Hence C hiang Kai-shek
named beneficiary in the policy re­
body was pulling a practical
is a F a scist; Russia, a dem ocracy.
gardless o f any w ill.
joke. "Mister, who are you try­
B u t they branch off fro m C om m u­
ing to kid?”
Q. Would It be possible for a sol­
n ist grooves to others strangely
dier to get a release from the army,
F in a lly the ca ll was tra n fe rre d to enough.
if he is 25 years old, has a wife and
The B ritis h have the best d ip lo ­
another
w rite r on the paper, who
three small children, who live in the
m acy, they th in k ; hence B rita in lik e ­
knew
T
ru
m
a
n
personally
and
could
country with no modern conveni­
wise can do no w rong. They are
ences. The wife’s health is not good id e n tify his voice. H ig h ly amused,
known also as “ the s trip e d trousers
and a 21-month-old baby daughter the P resident told him the news of set,” a ffe ctin g the u n ifo rm of the
must have an operation for removal his v is it.
D owning stre e t d ip lo m a ts beyond
of a bone growth on her foot. He
necessities.
FOGGY
FOREIGN
POLICY
is now somewhere in Japan aboard
H a rry H opkins, now hospitalized
To define what specific under­
a ship?—Mrs. M. E. M., Port Alle­
in New Y ork, is not im p ro v in g . A l­
mining they do is difficult. They
gany, Pa.
are an invisible wall of resist­
A. He is e lig ib le to apply fo r re ­ ways a liv in g skeleton, H a rry kept
h im se lf a liv e because o f his love of
ance. Hurley had two men in
lease because of the three ch ild re n
F D R . Now th a t FD R is gone, H a rry
the far eastern division in mind
Q. I have a friend who has been has no m ore zest fo r w ork. . .
in his charges.
in the army since December. 1944. Sen. C laude Pepper of F lo rid a is
These two, he apparently
He left the states on July 2, 1945 anil re tu rn in g fro m a three-m onth to u r
caught telling the Chinese to
is now in Japan. He has no de­ o f Europe to b lis te r the a d m in is tra ­
pay no attention to him, and
pendents and is 19 years old. Will tio n 's handling of foreign p olicy
spreading around at eocktail
you please tell me how many C om ing on top o f Senator F u l­
parties the notion that the
points he has and how long it will b rig h t’ s tw o-fisted a tta ck, perhaps
American foreign policy was
be before he is sent back to the somebody around the state d e p a rt­
temporary, that it would not
states? — Miss D. P., Dennison. m e n t w ill wake up to the fa c t that
bark Chungking in postwar. Be­
Ohio.
the seeds o f W orld W ar I I I can be
yond this apparently he had no
A. He has a p p ro x im a te ly 16 points planted rig h t now. . . . The s tra te g ic
convincing evidence.
as of Decem ber 5, 1945 and needs 55 services u n it of the w a r d e p a rtm e n t
to become e lig ib le fo r discharge. He ( it was fo rm e rly the "O h-so-secret”
His purpose in re ve rsin g h im se lf
p ro b a b ly has m any m ore m onths to office o f Gen. “ W ild B ill” D onovan)
a b ru p tly and deciding to q u it w ith a
serve.
ch a llenging p u b lic statem ent, was
has ju s t set up a v e ry in te re stin g
Q. Will a mother who has a son p ro je c t w hich w ill not keep the to force a congressional in ve stig a ­
killed in action, and who is physical­ peace. I t is w o rkin g on a “ plan fo r tion. A thorough one no doubt
ly unable to make her own support, an o rd e r o f ba ttle fo r a w a r w ith w ould force a re o rg a niza tio n w hich
lose her pension if she marries? Will R ussia.” The jo b is under d ire c t su­ not even a se cre ta ry of state has
a father’s pension be discontinued if p e rvisio n o f M a j. Raym ond C ronj- been able to effect in his own de­ TO HAVE AN EARLY CHR.STMAS . . . "Dear Santa,” writes paln- IS STILL RUNNING . . . Dr. Karl
Kohelt, newly elected president of
he marries? — Mr. T. S., Jackson, w ell, fo rm e r Tokyo correspondent p a rtm e n t.
wracked three-year-old Marvie Clark, with the aid of his mother, Edna Switzerland, did not stop running
Tenn.
fo r the W all Street Journal.
Clark. But Marvie will never know Santa's response, for doctors have when he was recently elected to
Before Byrnes and Stettinius,
A. In the case of a parent, the
told his parents that Marvie cannot live until Christmas.
Mr, Hull knew very well what
office.
question of m a rria g e is not consid­ CAPITAL CHAFF
was going on. He could read
ered. The pension is based upon de­
F o rm e r Coast G uard C om dr. Joel
In the papers daily, the planted
pendency and ’ 'hether the parent, F isch e r was in G erm any try in g to
news leaked from his depart­
m o th e r o r father, has sufficient in ­
root out hidden N azi funds. Cross-
ment against him, and he
come to keep them.
e x a m in in g w a r c rim in a ls , he found
R egional Expansion
Q. My son was killed in Italy Octo­
ber 1 a year ago. His wife is named
as beneficiary in his insurance but
hasn't received any yet. What is the
delay? — A mother, Brownsville,
Tenn.
A. H ave you filed a c la im fo r your
insurance? Suggest th a t you w rite
to yo u r nearest Veterans a d m in is ­
tra tio n office, p robably at N a sh ville
o r M em phis, set out a ll the facts and
am sure you w ill get some action.
Q. When a soldier has been
through hell of the battlefield for two
years and has been discharged with
a tired and nervous condition which
can be cleared up by being at home
and rest, how can he get this psycho-
neurotic name oil his discharge so
he can go to college?—J. J. C., West­
by, Wis.
A. You have e v id e n tly received a
m e d ica l discharge and w ould sug­
gest th a t you m a ke a p p lica tio n to
y o u r regional V eterans a d m in is tra ­
tio n fo r a re -e xa m in a tio n and an ap
peal fro m the m e dical findings.
them anxious to get A m e rica n la w ­
ye rs to act in th e ir defense. When
asked his views on the best A m e ri­
can law yers, Fischer, w ith s tra ig h t
face, re p lie d : "Y o u ought to tr y to
get C larence D a rro w o r P e rry M a ­
son.” F is c h e r’ s v ic tim s took ca re fu l
notes, not re a liz in g th a t D a rro w has
been dead fo r m ore than five years
and th a t Mason is a fictio n a l c h a r­
a cte r in E a rle Stanley G a rd n e r’ s
m y s te ry stories.
G o vernm ent press o ffic ia ls re ce n t­
ly beat down a second a tte m p t by
W ar M o b iliz e r John Snyder to m a in ­
ta in a peacetim e censorship o ver
the statem ents o f th e ir bosses. They
rejected a ll censorship schemes fla t­
ly d u rin g a secret session at the
W hite House, p ro m is in g to check
am ong them selves to be sure m a jo r
p o lic y statem ents of cabinet m e m ­
bers and o ther key o ffic ia ls are not
too fa r a p a rt. . . . Randolph Paul,
one o f the ablest tax men the U. S.
tre a s u ry has ever had, is co m p le tin g
a book on ta xa tio n , w ritte n fo r popu­
la r reading.
thought Sumner Welles, his as­
sistant, was doing it, but Welles
was only the temporary outlet
for the clique within. Not even
Hull could do much.
M r. Byrnes has indicated his in­
tention to s m ile away the m a tte r,
and there is danger that the Dem­
o c ra tic a d m in is tra tio n w ill tre a t it
p o litic a lly . H u rle y is a Republican,
and his e ffo rts fo r a congressional
in q u iry m ay be shunted off as a po­
litic a l attack.
I f the in q u iry fa ils to develop, the
A m e ric a n iz a tio n of the state d e p a rt­
m e n t m a y a w a it a fu tu re genera­
tion. T here is ta lk that Byrnes w ill
q u ie tly s ta rt housecleaning to fore­
s ta ll an In q u iry , but he m ust neces­
s a rily use a w hiskbroom where DDT
is called for.
Unless som ething is done, M r
B yrn e s w ill find i t in cre a sin g ly d if­
fic u lt to effectuate his foreign pol­
ic y w hich is s u ffic ie n tly popular
w ith the co u n try to have passed be­
yond p u b lic o r congressional c r ltl
clsm , except fro m this one clique,
and a few papers o f lik e m ind.
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vatelv supported by voluntary groups of interested citizens.
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