The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-04

Connecticut, the tw other board members, oppose. They believe the companies now using the ma chine tools, though not owning them, should have first lien oh buying them. This would mear that General Motors, one of the biggest war contractors, would get a chance to buy a tremendous amount of machine tools and would get head start on small CT companies.
 Other big auto companies and other big contractors hkeWlse would get a head start on peace time production if permitted to buy the tools they are now using.
 Behind this 2 10 l split in side the Surplus Property Board are also the Army, Navy and War Production Board, all of whom strongly favor the big companies when it comes to machine tools.
 However, Chairman Gillette has the support of the Justice De- partment which has just com pleted a survey showing that the Government controls 75 per cens of the best machine tools in the country and that the business first owning them Will dominate industry.
 IT., Co~otor cillotto o1cn a rClIpS that after the last war the big war contractors were permitted to buy in the Governments machine tools which they were using, so that they got atremendous mon- opolistic head start on recon- version, while small business was left out in the cold.
 NOTE: Inter esting fact is thu Colonel Edward Heller, who has taken a position which would hinder diversification of industry to the West Coast, comes from the West Coast.
 STASSEN CONSULTS
 If bustling Senator VaIdenbere of Michigan ever wants to run for the Presidency-as some people say he will-he may find that eX-Governor Harold Stassen Of Minnesota is one up on him.
 It all boils down to the fact that Stassen believes in "consult ing" Vandenberg doesn't. That may sound unimportant. But when you are consulting with the heads of large church and fraternal organizations which in- fluence thousands of votes, it makes a difference. The Negro consultants at this conference, for instance, probably could swing an election in certain key cities like Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Kansas City.
 Anyway, Commander H r. old Stassen, a candidate for the COP nomination last year, was given one of the cast-off jobs of the Conference - con- sulting with consultants. NO- body quite knew what to do with them, especially Senator Vandenberg. So Stassen took on the task of keeping the consuItants informed.
 Last week he took them on to explain the dispute over rotating the chairmanship of the Confer ence as urged by Russia and did a very good job of it. He explain ed that the Soviet believed that all the four inviting powers were equal co-hosts and that you had to try to put yourself in their position and understand their | point of view.
 Explaining the Soviet demand for three votes in the Assembly, Stassen told the consultantS:
 What's in MolotOvs mind is
 the fact that all of the Ameri-
 can States on this continent
 have a vote, and they fre-
 quently voted together. Also the
 British have six votes."
 Then Stassen threw open the debate to the consultants and asked them what they thought about different Conference de- velopments. He also discussed the question of island trusteeship wanted to make certain that explaining that the United States never again would it be threaten