Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
BEHIND
The NEWS
BY Paul
MaIIon

i''N Illf new -. cItiN ltaN = ~
captured the War Production
Board from business but that Is
The least of the story.
True enough, the secondary
business leadership remaining
down inside WIPE IS not the dy-
manic type New 36-year-old
-t---4- l44-----4+- l,+4sss -an1-had- a
career which would develop
business C. ontacts. except adj
vcrscly he was an engineer in
the IVA and WPAl.
Coming up in his outfit arc
men like Maury Maverick, New
Deal politician and head of The
smaller war plants division. who
has been conducting novel
buslncSs-cndcarinE campaign for
months taking every business
complaint from every con-
gresham a> major ISSUE.
writing NICE letters 10 the buSl-
ness involved 10 the congress
men and any one who might be
pleased thereby.
Behind Krug Will be the SIM
liar New Deal men who try to
persuade FBR into left-handed
trails at every fork of the road.
But this aftermath of the
fatal Nolson-Wilson feud Is only
a SIDE phase Of the greater evil
denee that the whole business
rec6nvcrsion program has be-
come involved IN tanGletoot up
TO its knees the same glue
which mrcd WIPE.
Great sectors of the HON
front. upon which the immediate
+ ecunon4te- AT it4e-eetff4ttff ~
depends, have become lcaderlesS
or confused by conflicting lead
erShlp. which Is worse Harsh
and ovcrStrauned as these words
may sound. they SprIrE from
mere scanning of surface events.
and arc beyond Concoalmcnt.
MIR. ROOSEVELT appreciated
N rcCOnVcrSlon was a doni-
mating phase of the peace pros
poets and last winter designated
his wise man. Bernard Baruch,
TO work out a policy
Baruch did, and his man
James r. ByrnoS. was appointed.
10 carry Tt forward bur Baruch
7 has been In either silent rage
or despair both seem IuStIfiable
by the disregard of his leader
ship and has said not a word
I lately. white i3Sl'ncs Nos told
/ Congress he was quitting thn
decentralization dictatorship, and
his friends fear he also will
quit the Covcrnmcnt Jan. J.
on the disposition of surplus
property VIII Clayton, the Of
fetal administrator advocated
one course before Congress only
10 find himself blocked mot by
Republicans but New Dealers
who protested his plan 10 turn
land over 10 the REC Clones
instead of the departments of
agriculture (Wickard) or IN
terror CIckcS) There IS, there
fore. no official policy on
surplus property and no leader
ship,
TIVE ClO-Ncw Deal clement
L promoted the Murray-kil-
gore blll on industrial unem-
ptoNnaent hHt- them efforts 10
got the President out in front
! for them had failed up to the
moment this column went 10
press. and Congress is passing a
modified George bill, sponsored
by the more conservative adj
minlStration elements. There is
no White House policy and con-
. AICting leadership IN this matter.
Contract termination fctr,tStttr--
ton has been passed but IS
involved in administration con-
nictS. and from the diverse ways
of the Democratic leaders IN
Congress. shows the admins
| tration attitude has not been
defined in any rcconvcrSion con-
! nict t>cc also Wilson 5 resign
ing Statcmcu).
Republicans are sitting back,
waiting for tho right time TO
say this all proves what Gov.
/ Dewey contcndcd. tina the
elderly mon hCrc have demon
/ Strafcd their lncptItudc, that
the Roosevelt machine Is going
to pieces. They can make much
/ Of MI Roo,cvcltS confusing
statements ON The NclSon-Nil-
son matter
ERIDAY. Aug is. The PrcSi-
L dent denounced questions
about Nelson being CNilcd TO
China rs wrong and unjust
and a "diSSoTViCc 10 tho Coun-
Try. whereas the following Fri
day be welcomed and cncour-
aged The same speculative m
curry 10y saying II was an "liiy
question meaning 1t might or
might not happon).
The difficulty is 80 ClarinC /
look for Mr. Roosevelt 10 move
FIRST Always m tho past he has
covered similar administrative
failures by creating grand and
glorious now organization on top