The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-22

Congressman Doughton, who rides 8 white mule through his farm in western North Carolina and can be as stubborn as the animal from whence derives his nickname, is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee which initiates tax legislation. Georges Finance Committee in the Sen- ate can only amend taxes after Doughton's committee has written the first draft Of the tax law.
 Doughton is definitely opposed to lowering taxes until the entire war is over. But what really made him mad was that he and Sena- tor George plus other members of the two tax committees were scheduled to meet at p. m. one day last week to decide what the Congressional tax policy should be.
 And on his way to this meet ing, without waiting to see what
 the others thought, Senator
 George announced to the press
 that taxes should be lowered. You can write it down now that
 they won't be lowered at this session if Muley Doughton has anything to do with it.
 NOTE: President Truman didn't hesitate a minute about oppos- ing tax reduction until the en- tire war is over. When the ques- tion was put to him, he made his decision immediately, came out with an emphatic statement next day against tax reduction. CAPITAL CHAFF
 Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton, the big cotton broker, has become one of the most hard hitting advocates of tough peace for Germany. (He was a little shaky about it Defore) One of Steve Early's last acts as White House Press Aide was to stop publication of President Truman's directive for a touch peace for Germany. The State Depart ment wanted it published, so did other government agencies, and Truman himself gave orders that it be given to the press one week ago. But Early said pub lication at that time might be em- barrassing to General Eisenhower.
 Ray Murphy. head of the State Department Gestapo, has hired Ben Mandel, former Communist once employed by the Dies Con- mittee. Mandel, is credited with giving Westbrook Pegler the list of telephone calls between Mrs. Roosevelt and the CLOS Political Action Committee, etc, after the Dies Committe had subpoenaed them from the telephone company Vivacious Madame Diaman- topoulos, wife of the Greek ambas- sador, committed the unforgiv- able San Franciscan sin when sie arrived for the United Nations Conference. She told San Fran ciscans that she had come west because she wanted to visit Los Angeles. (When she arrived in New York some years ago, the lady an- nounced that she didn't plan to learn English because "all the worthwhile people in Washington speak French') -. Los Angelinos pass off the United Nations Con- ference being in rival San Fran cisco by saying: "After all nobody heard of Yalta either until they held a conference there."
 LABOR AT SAN FRANCISCO
 To those who watched suave Ed Stettinius operate behind closed doors at San Francisco the other day, it looked as if he had taken some political lessons from Moss Hague of Jersey City or Boss Han negan of St. Louis. He certainly used strong-arm political tactics to run rough-shod over the op- position.
 It all started when Stettinius
 and Senator Vandenberg learned
 that the Conferences Social and
 Economic Commission had voted
 27 to 3 to invite the World
 Trade Union Conference into the United Nations as permanent
 observers - along with the In-
 ternational Labor Office, the
 Hot Springs Food Conference,
 UNRRA, and other groups. The
 World Trade Union Conference
 represents 60.000.000 organized
 workers throughout the world, including the ClO in this coun-