The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06

rope. New Yorks hard-working Senator Head then asked Cover nor Lehman if he had been able to pick up any of these trucks for relief work.
 Do you want any of these truckS?" asked Mead.
 Do we want them?" replied Lehman. "The trouble is we can't get them. We can't seem to get them released. I've got a telegram from Yugoslavia here telling that one hungry Yugo- slav city, Sarajevo, has only three trucks to feed thousands of peO- pie. Why, some towns are starving, while they're burning the food just few miles away in the same country because they can't move. A year from now the army will be begging us to take the trucks. Then we won't need them. We want them now when they can save lives.'
 Several senators quizzed Som- ervell as to why UNNRA hadn't received the trucks yet. All the General could reply was, The War Departments working on it."
 After more discussion, Lehman, whose anger was rising, stood up from the back of the room, looked straight at Somervell, and said:
 There's all that surplus Army stuff, especially in Italy. Why can't we get it?"
 SomerveM hesitated. we want |. to cooperate" he said lamely, land we're going to-"
 GERMAN EQUIPMENT
 FOR CHINESE?
 Ohio,s Bob Taft then took over the questioning.
 General, you're planning to arm thousands of Chinese troops. They've been trained by German officers. Why don't we use cap tured German equipment to arm them? You must have a lot of it by now.'
 'I felt the same way about it at first, senator" SOmervell replied. But it would only ball up our transport and create a lot of time.wasting headaches if we tried to send all that Ger man stuff to China. In the long run it will be cheaper and fast CT to send new supplies from here. Besides, we'd have to re- tain those Chinese who've al- ready been taught to use our equipment, and teach them to use German weapons"
 Taft then moved in on Admiral Land of the Maritime Commis- sion, asked him how the Russians were able to transport. war ma terial on American liberty ships flying the Soviet flag without be- ing attacked by Jap subs and air. craft.
 Senator" replied Land, 'Tll be damned if I'm going to let the Japs find out the inside story on that One."
 Several Senators then asked why our G. I. Joes were taking such beating in France because of the unfavorable exchange rate.
 Since when does the G. I. have to carry the burden of imitation in France?" asked Michigan's shrewd Republican Senator Ferguson.
 "They don't have to spend their money in France, you know" replied one of Somer- vell's aides. "They can ship it home."
 This burned the Senators up. One demanded why the men who fought in Europe shouldn't have a chance to spend their money and enjoy life now that the shooting had stopped. Ferguson asked what the Army was doing to improve the situatino.
 Brig. Gen. Kenneth Royall re- piled that the Army was expand ing the post exchanges in France so that men could buy everything, including gifts, at reasonable prices.
 Several Senators quizzed Dean Acheson and will Clayton of the State Department as to who had fixed the unfavorable rate of ex- change with the French. Both replied they didn'k know. Actual ly, President Roosevelt had done 1t personally during the Casa blanca conference.