The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-23
rumon Puts Conservative In Cabinet
 Horrimon Choice
 Receives Approval
 Of SoIons, Lobor

Washington, Sept. 23-UP)- President Truman's appointment of Ambassador w. Averill Hartman to be Secretary of Commerce as- sured today that his Cabinet will stand as a unit in firm support of administration policy toward Russia.
 Harriman's appointment to suc- ceed Henry A. Wallace was an- nounced by the White House last night. The secretary designate has been assisting Secretary of State James F. Byrnes at the Paris Peace Conference. His own post is the London Embassy to which he gradu- ated from our embassy in Moscow. Prior to his service as ambassador to the Soviet Union, Hartman had served President Roosevelt as a top official of the National Recovery Administration and on special mis- sionS to London and Paris.
 Hartman was spending the week end in rural England when noti- fled of his appointment.
 Big Business Dealer
 The new secretary was disap- pointed in Mocow by his experi- ences in dealing with Russian statesmen although he got along with them well. He is in direct contrast to Wallace, the Iowa born agriculturist. Hartman possesses great wealth. He is product of Groton and Yale. AS a partner in Brown, Hartman & Co.,, Inc, and as chairman of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad and of other corporations, Hartman is a man of large business and financial experi- ence. He is 55 years old and hangs his working hat in an office at 59 Wall Street when not in Govern ment service. Hartman will re- turn shortly from Paris to take over his new duties.
 MT. Truman asked Hartman to take the job Saturday and in a second transatlantic conversation the shift was clinched yesterday. MT Truman talked to Hartman yes- terday from his yacht, the Will liamsburg, on which he spent the weekend, including last night.
 MT. Truman was said to believe that he made an excellent ap- pointment."
 MT. Harrlman'S appointment will be accepted by the business con- munity with the greatest enthusi- asn," Wallace told the United Press.
 Agree on Appointment
 First reactions to Hartman gen. orally were favorable. Rep. Clarence Brown, (R.-O), and Clarence Lea. D.-Calo, agreed that the appoint ment was a good one.
 T know MT. Hartman" said William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. "Ha is capable man.
 Hartman is not popular, however, with the extreme left wing of American politics. Communists &C., cused him of unfriendliness toward the Soviet Union. His successor in London has not been named, but the name of Joseph E. Davies, former envoy to Russia, was among those mentioned in the first specu- lation.
 Support for Wallace's foreign podicy is coming largely and most loudly from the political left. The Communist Party is now for him 100 percent after a quick about face on the matter.
 IckeS Behind Wallace
 The National Citizens Political Action Committee, Harold L. Ickes Independent Committee for Arts, Sciences and Professions and the National Committee to win the peace have endorsed Wallace or are campaigning for his policies. 1ckes' organization and the Win the-Peace Committee have been sympatheteic with the Communist Party policies. The Communists claim they established the organization now headed by Ickes as party front outfit.
 Although the Communist newspa- per, the Daily Worker, assailed Wallace Sept. l3 as an advocate of imperialism, the party line now is to cite him as the na- tion'S foremost statesmen. The