The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-14

Suddenly he discovered that in making up his efficient reorgan- ization charts he did not have a single Jew in an important post. Already the State Department has the reputation of being anti Semetic, and one of his new as- sistant secretaries is known to be rabidly so. The one i'm portant Jewish officer, Herbert Feis, grandson-in-law of President Garfield, got discouraged and went to work for Secretary of War Stimson. Meanwhile Stettinius, having urged the Senate not to support a homeland for Jewish refugees in Palestine, decided to bring at least one Jew into the State Department.
 So he approached War Mobilizer Jimmy ByrneS and asked If Ben Cohen, legal counsel for Byrne, would become assistant legal coun- sel of the State Department. When Byrnes originally was promised the job of Secretary of State (before FDR changed his mind Byrnes had planned to make his old friend Cohen chief counsel of the State Department, not as- Sistant.
 ''If you want to ask Ben to
 become assistant counsel"
 Byrnes told Stettinius in reply
 to his query, you can do so
 yourself. But as far as I'm
 cOncernerd, I'm not going to in- suit him."
 StettiniuS then went to Oscar Cox, chief counsel of the Federal Economic Administration and asked him to prepare list of Jewish attorneys who might take the job. Cox is now preparing the list. It remains to be seen who will be cnoSen-or who will accept, if chosen.
 STATE DEPARTMENT
 NEW BLOOD
 WILL CLAYTON, like most of FDR's other new State Depart ment appointees, has been large cash contributor against Roosevelt in most elections. Nelson Rocke- feller and life gave $2,500 to Dewey. Brig. Gen. Julius Holmes, another new assistant secretary, is an outspoken Rooseyelt-hater. UnderSecretary Joe Grew was born and reared in the COP camp Clayton, a Democrat, contributed $7,500 ito the Liberty League against Roosevelt during the Landon campaign; also sup ported Willkie. In the recent cleo ton, however, he finally came out for Roosevelt . Meanwhile, Mrs. Clayton, always strong for RooSe- velt, gave tot he Democrats what her husband gives to the Re- publicans.
 GRACIOUS MRS. WILL CLAY TON was the schoolgirl weet- heart of Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky. They went to col- lege together. That is one reason why Barkley will not oppose Clay tons Senate confirmation, though most other southern senators are vehement against him |. Reason is that Clayton nearly wrecked their cotton program. When Alabama's Senator Bank head and colleagues worked out cotton reduction, Clayton picked up his gins and carried them to South America /. There, in Bra gil, Paraguay he taught the La- tins to raise as much cotton, and cheaper cotton than in the USA. For the firstt ime in 160 years cotton actually was imported into this country rom Brazil |. Southern senators also dislike Clayton because hundreds of small cotton brokers; scores Of small gins have been forced out by his octopus operations,
 CLAYTON'S COTTON SALES TO GERMANY once before were questioned by a congressional committee. In 1886, three years before the war. Senator "CottOn Ed" Smiths agricultural commit te easked Will about his tremen- dous expansion in South America. He replied it was necessary in or- der to do business with Germany. steadfastly refused to yield ore atom Of cOlIrace tO the very end