Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
PAUL
NIALLON
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WASHINGTON. July 1.-THE
w end of the Truman house.
cleaning of his inherited Roose-
Welt cabinet has not yet come. ..
Next TO go will be Interior
Secretary Harold l.. IckeS. This
departure rests merely upon a
slight question of time. MIR.
IckeS does not fit into the stand
ard the new President is Great
ing at the top of the govern
ment-the standard of Demo-
cratic party experience and po-
iitieai background In Congress,
hlghhghtlng Sub-strata sub
cabinet background of trustwor-
thy Missouri friends, and a gen
orally higher tone of fitness for
the particular work at hand.
Mr.. lckes is mugwump Re-
publican. Mr.. Truman, while in
Congress, was probably the only
man there with whom MI. IckeS
had not fought at one time or
another The President is in no
hurry for the change, yet you
may mark it down IN your little
red book, MIR. Ickes definitely
will go.
OTHER alterations near the
" top may come earlier. An
important shift up the line be-
hind Fred Vinson, the impending
treasury secretary, probably
will be worked out this way:
John Snyder, ST. Louis bank
vice president (now presiding
over the old Jesse Jones $40.
600, 100000 loan empire) will 90
into the dictatorship of stabiliza-
ton, as William II. Davis moves
up to take WILSON'S old Job as
director OF war mobilization and
reConYersion.-
Emil Schram, president of
the New York Stock Exchange
and an old friend of the de-
parted Jesse Jones, will go into
Snyder's job in charge of the
ole Jones empire.
These changes, at least are
IN the cards, and will come
-abotit=H He-eHe- drops Il card.
Six OF. the 10 Roosevelt cab
met chair warmers already have
gone and one more, IckeS. will
make 1t seven. The three re-
naming are 10 continue indef-
nitely. This is highly signifi-
cant in one respect.
1T MEANS Henry Wallace, the
former vice president. de-
feated by Mr.. Truman for re-
nomination TO that post, is TO
continue as commerce secretary.
While Mr.. Wallaces experience
on the subject of commerce"
has been limited largely to pub
llcation Of farm magazine. he
is a sort of general custodian
of the leftwing element, and its
observer at the top table. What
ever are the reasons. Mr.. Tru-
man does not intend to let him
go.
The other two holdovers are
War Secretary Stimson and
Navy Secretary Forrestal who
obviously are in for the Japa-
neSe duration. No thought of
supplanting them has been en-
tertained, and they may be
listed as exceptions to all Mr..
Truman's cabinet rules, in view
of the emergency nature of
their positions.
OOK now at the new front,
~ and you will better under
stand what has been happening
10 bring it about and what NAV
be expected from cabinet lead
ership in the future:
ByrneS, Vinson, Anderson.
Clark, Hannegan and Schwel-
lenbach have replaced Stettin-
ius, Morgenthau, Wickard, Bid
die, Walker and Perkins. None
OF the newcomers is new TO
Washington, or government.
-Four were Roosevelt appoint
eeS in one important capacity or
another. Byrnes, Vinson, Clark
and Hannegan. Anderson was
a representative and Schwellen-
bach a former senator. All are
Democratic party career men
as contrasted with the departed
RooSeveltians like Morgenthau,
Perkins and Biddle who were
simply nondescript politically
Roosevelt New Dealers.
This is the chief distinction Of
the changes. They are not away
from Roosevelt, but away from
the leftwing emphasis, the So
cial reforming theories. AS one
of Truman's associates puts il
privately:
1--WE are preserving the better
side Of Roosevelt. dispensing
with the other side"
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