Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-12
Special Jap
Envoy Is No
Dove ofPeace
Toxic Wants americans
to Quit Far East
BY PAUL MALLON

III Ills nat.
The proper authorities have
been forewarned privately from
Toxic not 10 credit popular re-
ports. The leading career man
of the Japanese diplomacy was
sent here. they say, 10 become
a second ambassador 10 Admiral
Nomura for an indefinite Pc
Rod. They are merely TO see
what they can do.
Kurusu's visit is being pre-
coded by what might be called
a barrage of peace plans. all of
which are coming, however,
through the unpredictable Jap
anese press. All have been inn
possible because they sought our
withdrawal from the Far East
and our complete abandonment
of the Chinese.
A friendly understanding with
Japan will be impossible until
Toxic fully realizes that her plan
of conquests and her Axis part
nership have both collapsed.
That may be long time.
War rumors have been flying
here faster than the peace re-
ports-and bigger. Chinese quar-
tiers prefer to believe the one
that we will open hostilities
within 80 days in a naval cam
paign already being organized
with the British. No solid basis
for such an expectation can be
found.
EOYD ODLUM has found
l. that helping little business is
a big business. perhaps too big.
He quietly submitted TO Donald
Nelson, the defense director, a
program whereby a certain per-
centage of raw materials would
be allocated to small business
before the big firms get theirs.
Some say 2 per cent, some say
5 per cent for firms employing
20 men or less.
Odlum's idea was that these
materials would enable many
small business firms to continue
their present trade lines until
next June, or turn gradually to
defense items.
But Nelson turned ii down
cold. He took the position the
small firms should be in the de-
Tense program, and not allowed
to continue manufacturing lines
outside. Defense contracts could
be awarded to them for a num-
Der of their products like belt
buckles, pins, dishes, canteens
and such. To follow the Odlum
idea, he contended, would injure
defense production by whatever
percentage Odlum raided our
store of metals.
The difference of opinion was
clear-cut and has cracked right
down through the entire defense
setup. The New Deal boys
unanimously backed Nelson and
are already digging an official
grave for Odlum. Their latest
understanding was that Odlum
was now putting his plan in
final written form and intends
TO take il TO the President over
Nelson's head.
Nelson in turn has made it
clear he will go back TO the
mail order business in Chicago
if his judgment as director of
priorities IS not upheld.
THE next Ickes scare is ex-
Il pected TO concern tetra-
ethyl lead. A movement may be
started to get motorists to use
low grade gas, sparing the high
octane for aviation use here and
abroad. A clearer case of need
for this can be made out, than
for the unsuccessful gasoline
conservation campaign. Effect
on motorists is not likely TO be
great.
Certain Albany Republicans
are working toward an expose
of the state liquor license
racket" and want Tom Dewey
10 head a special investigating
committee. Dewey could use it
for a springboard for the gov
ernorship if he needed a spring.
LaGuardia will not back
Dewey in the gubernatorial race,
despite their friendship in the
recent campaign. The New York
mayor will support whomever
Roosevelt wants, probably Leh-
man. Mud thrown in the recent
election will be washed off by
that time.
The international debates have
caused so much personal animos-
ity in the Senate that many OF
the leading senators no longer
speak To each other, or at most
very formally.
Club-hke atmosphere of the
chamber is gone. Senate barber
shop, usually place OF intimate
chattering. is as quiet as a mu-
scum most of the time.
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IS YEARS AGO TODAY
Noe. ~, 1916