The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

this passageway were little
 To the little office behind this door, big, ingratitating Democra- tic Treasurer Ed Pauley hauled from the floor delegate after dele gate who was wavering between Truman and Wallace. There he convinced Californias Attorney General Bob Kenney, who had arrived as Wallace supporter but who after listening to Pauley vot- ed for Truman, and took half of California's delegation with him.
 In those last frantic hours when it was nip and tuck between Wallace and Truman, Pauley anc his office did a thriving business Perhaps he tipped the scales fo' the man who now sits in the White House.
 Last week, after the political debt was paid which made Paul ley U. s. member of the Repara- tions Commission, Big Ed had a
 talk with old friends. includ- ing his chief in the White House.
 Judging by what Big Ed told
 them, there is no doubt where he stands regarding a hard
 peace for Germany.
 State Department appeasers, he told them, will arrange his trans- portation and his hotel accomnlo- dations, but that's all. Other wise, Pauley is determined that the policy of Franklin Roosevelt before he died shall be carried out. That policy was that every potential war factory in Germany be transferred or Wipec out. President Truman has re-empha- sized that policy.
 Pauley, who is as good busi' nessman as he is a politician, may be a lot better than some diplomats when it comes to car rying it out.
 TRUMAN WOOS GOVERNORS
 President Harry Truman IS de termined to cement his relation ship with state leaders as Well as Congress. That was the req son behind the recent visit to the White House of Governors J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island, Herbert R. O'Conor of Maryland and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma. McGrath and O'Conor had ac- tually been asked by Truman to come to Washington, while Kerr happened to be in town and was invited to join them.
 Truman opened the conver- sation by telling the governors that since they live among their
 constituents from day to day, they are perhaps able to keep a closer check on what the people are thinking than members Of
 Congress. He asked their help in seeing to it that our foreign
 policy is understandable to the American public, annd in turn is understood by the public.
 Foreigfn policy was the only subject discussed, aside from the arrangements for the annual Gov ernors' Conference, to be held in July at Mackinac Island, Mich.
 Truman was invited by the three governors to attend the Mackinac Island sessions. or at least to come out and speak to the governors. The idea appealed to him. but he said he cou0ld not reply definitely until much later, when he knew what would
 be happening in Washington and elsewhere in the world.
 As the gubernatorial trio left. McGrath of Rhode Island dropped behind for a moment and Tru. man said he might be calling hin to washington again within a couple of weeks. McGrath, who led Roosevelt and Truman by more than 10000 votes in Rhode Island last year, is serving his third term as Governor and was U. s. Attor- ney in Rhode Island for seven years before that. A close friend of Bob Hannegan. McGrath sec onded Truman's Vice-Presidential nomination last year at Chicago.
 NOTE: Later in the day a re- porter called McGrath and asked