The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-29
By Dre1C Pearson

branch of the Government undermine lt. Secretary Hull n 1898 had requested all airplane manufacturers u Jap planes were Dombarcine innocent civilians in China. and tD all reports from the Far East showed that Japan was about to embark on cam- paign Co conquer the Pacific.
 One word from tho War Department io Douglas Aircraft or other companies would have stepped them dead in their tracks. Their main market gas the Army. and they could not afford Co offend their best customer. Yet the Army not only dic not say the word. but turned around married the daughter Of the president of the firm and made the yceprcsi- dent major general.
 Later when the state Department was shown to be right, and the Army wrong. Hull was forced to modify his own foreign policy at the request Of the generals because they had unwitngiy cut the ground out from under him.
 All Of which shows that you need a strong, hoe mogenous State Department 10 set foreign policy and then to force all other branches of the Govern ment To stick to it-n We are to head off another 
 One trouble with the State Department in Mir HulS day that after chartng excellent policy there was internal pickering wayering. and argu- ment with the military. Today the same thing is happening. Today, perhaps more, State Depart ment personnel and foreign policy being engulfed by the Army and, to a lesser extent, the Navy. In China, D. S. policy has been set almost much by Gen. Al Wedemeyer and Admr. Dan Barbey by the State Department-up until the arrival of an- other military man, Gen Marshall, who now takes over as Ambassador.
 In Belgium, the State Department is recommends ing Alan Kirk mediocre admiral. ambassador partly because he is a friend of Dean Achesons ss- ter.
 In Greece, Gen. Barney Giles is being considered U. S. Ambassador, replacing Lincoln Mac Veagh. The latter should have been replaced long ago. But the General proposed his successor threw the correspondent ot the Overseas News Agency out of Palestine because he had written something displeasing to the British and once told D. S. news men in Cairo that he would permit them to report nothing critical of Britain and her political troubles in the Near East
 What the State Department needs of course is to take both politics and the military out of diploma cy and appoint the very best man the nation find regardless of political party expert envoys on our first line of defense-American diplomatic missions abroad.
 word-shaking invention of all tme the atom bomb But sometimes, when 1t comes to less complicated things, they are completely at sea.
 Some of the Federation of Atomic Scientists were gathered at their office recently to have their pie lures taken by magazine photographer Ike Vern.
 Vern remarked at the lack of heat in the build ing. Haven't you furnace?" he asked.
 "Yes," said one of the scientists, but we don't know how to light it..
 A moment later the phone rang. Colombias bril- liant Dr. Harold Urey tried to answer it, but the phone was equipped with three buttons
 My God" exclaimed Atomic Scientist Urey, which button do I push?"
 Experiment, man, experiment." replied Dr. Leo Szilard.