Detroit evening times., 1945-02-16
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WASHINGTON Feb, 15-The
w forty billion dollar RFC
Job which Mr. Wallace reached
for and missed. was next 10
have been tossed by the White
House crowd 10 NJ Marriner
EccleS, federal reserve chair
man, who at least knows some
thing about the ma ( o ms
financial base of capltalisuc
operations. EccleS declined at
once, saying ne wanted 10 keep
his present post
At a meeting Of the top men
around Mr.. Roosevelt tJimmy
ByrneS, Marvin Jones. et all,
it was decided all would get
behind Fred Vinson, Kentucky
eX-CongreSSman, who has been
an unoStentatiouS assistant 10
Byrnes, directing con O m C
StablliZatlon. NInSon could no
doubt be confirmed as senators
generally have gwen him a good
Caliber rating since he proved
his common sense and showed
quite a bit of ability as chair
man of the tax subcommittee
in the House There, he was
always a strong Democratic
partisan, generally going along
with the New Deal. Although
carefully saving himself from
any charge of radicaliSm. He
is not as free a money toSser
as the Wallace crowd might
like, but on the other hand they
could hardly object to him.
COMING up from small
~ town lawyer TO his con-
gressional job, he found il in
secure because his Kentucky
district was always apt 10 90
Republican. The White House
gave him, a judgeship on the
court of appeals, from which
security he resigned TO help
Byrnes. at White House request.
In his present war task he
has been rather hardboiled in
seriously doing what FDR has
told him to do-and he would
no doubt preside over the Jesse
Jones financial dynasty the
same way.
Some inside work is being
done, however. 10 get some one
with more experience in finance
10 do Mr.. RS bidding in RFC,
and some rather formidable
people are trying TO get Joseph
p Kennedy back in the govern
ment.
Here is as good a man as
the New Deal ever had, whose
career has been an ironic
tragedy. He-was ridden out of
the London ambaSsadorShip be-
Cause he approved the Munich
appeaSement, which Mr.. RooSe-
welt also approved, but with
recrimination. Fanatics have
carried out a hate and smear
campaign against HIM since
then without any justification,
sometimes calling him "FaciSt"
or worse. He was for Munich
because he knew Britain was
was not prepared for war and
neither were we.
DUT what will gall and sense
ID Of justice is that he has
given more TO the war than any
of those public deceivers who
have made a good war buSi-
ness out Of running him down.
He has suffered one son killed,
a Son-in-law killed after six
weeks of marriage 10 his
daughter, a second son so serl-
ouSly injured ramming a Jap
destroyer he has not yet re-
covered.
Three of the highest military
decorations have come TO the
family. A third son is in the
navy. and a daughter is doing
Red Cross work in France. The
son who was killed was carry
ing a rocket bomb across the
British Channel, aimed at Nazi
munitions dumps in France,
when IL exploded prematurely
off the French coast and blew
his plane 10 bits.
You never hear these things,
only the sly curses of agitatorS,
living and fattening off the war
by selling bitterness and hate
against good Americans for
high fees.
If there is a more ironical ex-
ample of the murderous nature
Of American politics today, /
have not heard II. The story
explains why so few big men
care 10 enter public service.
No one else is better fitted by
experience or politics for the
Jones job. but Kennedy prob
ably Will not get II.
EERVOR of witnesses appear
L ing for both Wallace and
Aubrey Williams Nominated 10
head -REAl-FaH- -te- the e-skies..
Here were two men dropped by
Mr.. Roosevelt for the campaign.
Williams, formerly youth ad-
miniStrator and WPA deputy,
had not been popular and left
the government before election.
Like Wallace he was considered
radical and much Of a load on
the administration.
Yet Immediately after elcC-
tion both we're named for big
ger Jobs than they had lost, and
many mer and women flocked
l.. a 4.