The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02

car Ewing to get it, and at first Roosevelt backed him up. How ever, Atty. Gen. Riddle stuck to his ground that the lawyer for the Aluminium Corporation of America should not be Solicitor General of the United States. Roosevelt in the end agreed.
 After that, Justice Frankfurter telephoned the President, putting in a plug for Dean Acheson, As sistant Secretary of State. Ache son, one of the best lawyers in Washington, never has been too happy in the state Department, undoubtedly would make an Al Solicitor General. He is not the man proposed by Riddle, who wants able Hugh Cox, now Assist ant Solicitor General. However, it looks as if Frankfurter will win out.
 GENERAL CLAY BOWS OUT
 Not many people realized it, but while the President and War Mobilizer Byrnes were at Yalta, the chief backstage dictator of the U. s. A. was Maj. Gen. Lucius Clay, Deputy War Mobili- ger, the man who has @ great deal to say about curfews, man. power, baseball, horse racing, conversion of factories, and whose civilian powers are tremendous.
 General Clay is the man now selected by President Roosevelt to be U. s. Dictator" of Germany after the arlnistice. General Clay is lowing out of Washington af- ter a tough showdown fight with the War Mobilization Board, a committee representing business, labor, farmers and the public.
 This Board was created by Congress to counter balance the tremendous powers given Justice Byrnes and his office. But, as frequently happens, Byrnes, and especially General Clay, got into the habit of ignoring their civilian advisers.
 Things got so sharp that the Board barred General Clay from its meetings, also passed a resolu- tion demanding showdown with Byrnes and warning him that they were not rubber stamp agency. The Board was not con- suited on the curfew. on horse racing, or on various other moves.
 Final showdown came at a recent meeting when Byrnes was asked to be present. Board men1- bers were discussing the problem when the popular ex-Supreme Court Justice entered.
 Come in," greeted Board
 Chairman ex Governor Max Gardner of North Carolina, ''we're talking about y0u."
 Eric Johnston, dynamic PreSi- dent of the U. s. Chamber Of Commerce, then outlined the Boards grievances.
 "We have two things i'm nnind," he said. we think If this Committee is going to function efficiently we have to know what your plans are. And also we believe you could be better represented than by your present deputy, General Clay"
 "If 1t will make you gentle men feel any happier" Justice Byrnes immediately replied, "T can tell you that I was able to get General Clay from the Army for only four months and i'm . short time he is due to go back to the Army.
 'Tn my opinion" Byrnes add ed, General Clay could run General Motors or command Eisenhower's Army. But. as far as this picture is concerned, the General is out
 Despite Byrnes's defense or Clay, insiders say that his rough shod tactics regarding civilian economy made his exit imperative. Therefore, the President decided that he was just the man to place over the government of Occupied Germany.
 The hard-working Byrnes took the criticism of his War Mobiliza- ton Board with good grace and they are now cooperating much better. The Board is studying ways by which the Nation can convert from wartime production to peace time prosperiity without an in- tervening economic depression. CAPITAL CHAEw
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