The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
NOTES OF A NEwsPAPERMAN

NOTES OF A NEWSPAPERNIAN
 Warning to MT. and Mrs. United Etates: The following is from an intimate of the President: T don't think anyone outside Washington eould possibly appreciate the vicious ness of the pressures some of us are fighting. There are some strong minority groups in this country who are determined to blow up price control for their own selfish advan- tage, regardless of what happens to the remainder of the country. shudder to think of what we will be in for-if our boys come back to a country which is torn by imitation, and all the chaos and dissension which imitation would create.
 we are going to have a tough enough time at best during the coming year-fighting the Japs and trying to lay the foundations for . decent and lasting peace. But if the profiteers, the lobbyists and chiselers get their way, our chances of coming through will be few.
 'The next 30 days are going to be the toughest of all. The opposition on the Price Control Act is now coming out intot he open. Every effort will be made to blame OPA for shortages, irritations, hadrships, lack of clothes lack of food, etc. When I think of the comparative comfort in which we have fought this war, 1t gives me the Creeps. Business today is making more than double the profit after taxes it made before the war, and our farmers | ancome is at an all-time high Il There is probably far less economic | hardship in this country today than | at any time in our history. And l .yet the inflationists are not satis- flied
 T just wanted you to know that | your consistent support to the gov ternment .sas been one of the bright | spots. Eerhaps you have very little | 7 idea how much your support has meant to many in gOVernment-andl ! the effect it has had in counter | acting the blind oppotionists and | the tohers. If you can find space | in the paper and time on the air, | lett he people know at once. They |
  nanding of their Congresmen that | rationing and price controls must | not be ended now, or (as they plan) | in three months They must be | controlled until the war is over. Thanks"
 Telegram: Poetic Justice. The dramatic reversal of the ReiChstag | trial. Goering prosecuted Georgi | Dimitroff in the frame-up blaming | Dimitroff for starting the Reichstag fire. And today Dimitroff is prose- cutting Meyer Goeringl Isn't it wonderful?-Ralph Berendt, New York City"
 A Russian delegate to the Seclr- .ity Conference was trying to throw some light on the muddled situation in China (for @ perpleXed journal 1S) before Chiang technically re- signed his premiership.
 But why" asked the writer, lis unity so hard to establish in China. If both the Chungking Govt and Communist guerrilla forces want to destroy the Japanese?"
 Perhaps 1t is best explained by saying that 1t is an old custom for Chiang to fight the Communists" replied the delegate, and he has such love for ancient institutions that he will not look at the new moon, out of respect for the old one"
 Some of the best anecdotal ma terial Of the war is cropping up these days in the rectic verbal eX- changes between House of Com mons members who are all election minded. When Churchill left the