Detroit evening times., 1945-05-26
BEHIND
The NEWS
BY Paul
MaIIon

ened by some 10 Coolidge or
Harding, and the assembling
personality of his whole regime
is being run into that past char
acter niche. especially by bewil-
dered and confused radicals.
IL is a bad Simile, inaccurate
and of no value except for politi-
cal opposition. You cannot find
the personality counterpart Of
this administration IN the past.
1t is something new.
Look into tho first one, John
s. Snyder. head OF the Jesse
Jones financial empire mot con-
Sidering yet the fresh cabinet
men). He is a banker brought
in to handle the biggest banking
business in the history of the
world. the peoples $46.00o,000,-
600 RFC and associated lending
ventures. which h the radical
clique wanted 10 place In The
hands of a man who knew MOTH
ing of banking.
EuRSF thing Mir. Snyder did
L aiSe-Fated- only an obscure
paragraph from the=ffess- -asso-
Citations. He found slN lending
agencies under RFC functioning
with six separate Staffs, letter
heads. offices and all the costly
individual paraphernalla Of bu-
-FeaHeFaeies-by order Of law.
Mr.. Snyder had his staff
write a new law consolidating
this absurd duplication. The con-
greSSional banking committee
introduced it, The bill passed
the Senate unanimously. with
out objection, Tuesday, and will
shortly receive the same APP
proval of the House.
I OOK intO Edwin W RsufFv,
l. Trumau'S leader of the Al
lied Preparations Commission,
whose head is being projected
into the bears mouth in Mos
COW now. PauIey made a mil
lion or so in California OIL, hut
he looks like An oil worker. His
ham-hand handshake could
make your teeth rattle. He is
towering in height but rather
Young man international
dealers go-and a sharp oil
fields trader.
No one ever saw his likes
under Harding or Coolidge,
where the choices for such work
ran 10 men like Dwight Nor
row, the Morgan partner, and
Charles Dawes, the biggest Chi
cago banker
Mr.. paulev will step higher
In this government, probably 10
SnyderS ioh If Snyder goes TO
the treasury.
OR LOOK again into Bob Han
" negan. the new postmaster
general (beginning July II who
requires another look In view
Of his sharply advanced emil
nenCe in this new regime. He
is second man 10 Truman now.
II was Hannegan who brought
Pauley in here AS treasurer or
the Democratic National Com
mittee for Roosevelt. They all
are of the same stripe, Snyder,
Pauley and Hannegan, aggreS-
sive, untired, sharp men from
the middle class. hard knocked,
experienced, knowing, earnest.
Hannegan certainly KIN oW s
more of inside Washington than
any one who has been around
here in a long time.
Or consider Charles Ross, the
new press secretary. His dis
tinction is not that he is an
experienced newsman. r h er Q
are many of those around
Washington. But among those
available for the job, he, more
than any other, had reputa-
tion for honesty and equal JUS
tice among his colleagues.
The mention of his name
means 10 every one a square
deal at the White House and
an even break He had to sac
rifice 10 take the position, bat
he owed II 10 Truman an old
friend. 10 bring his character
into the front for the new re-
gimc.
THE one Characteristic these
Il men have in common is that
they want 10 give good gov
ernment. ! do not know whether
they can, but they want to- I
am inclined TO think they may
succeed 10 unexpected proper
tions because their minds are
not d distorted by ideologies
which might lead them TO fool
iSh decisions.
They are not reactionary or
even conservative. They are
liberals. but they do not want
10 fight, hate and kill every one
who does not agree with them
on every subject.
Mr. Hannegan. I would hesi-
tate 10 classify AS an altruiSt.
! believe he thinks he can make
good government pay, politically.
For instance, Mr.. Truman said.
when asked about a financial
policy the other day, that he had
10 think first about the interests
of the IS, 900 bondholderS in
this nation.
THIS was the first time any
Il official hcrcaboutS ever mem
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