The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-18
By DresC Pearson

instructions on Spain It will also be interesting to watch future British policy Spain, and see wheth- CT the American public has really been so "srieV- ously misled,"
 New York acquaintance encountered iron 4onsilled Senator Theodore Biibo of Mississippi bus ting down the corridor from his ofhce.
 Well see Life magazine has been giving you some free publicity" said the New Yorker
 '"They can keep it." clustered The Man That blankety-blank magazine is always attacking me. wish those New Workers would stay the blankety- blank out of my affairs and Mississippi politics
 Don't take 1t 50 hard, Senator. You can't ignore New York. It's the greatest state in the Union"
 This was too much for the pint-sized Senator.
 New York-Bahl" he ragged. Listen, why don't you get your two seantors, Jim Mead and Bob Wag- ner to introduce resolution permitting New York to secede from the Union. There wouldn't be shot fired against 1t"
 It was tribute to Gen. George Marshall that both sides In the bitter Chinese struggle for power teegraphed Washington asking that Marshall come back immediately That was the inside reason Tor the Generals sudden departure for China.
 You going to hear a lot more about Chinese strife during the next few days and weeks The job of putting the jumbled jig-saw of Chinese politics together looks almost impossible.
 During Marshalls absence from China, the American Embassy in Chungking cabled the State Department urging that nothing more De done re- garding the proposed 500000000 loan to China since this Is about the only bargaining weapon which can be held over Chinese heads.
 Both factions would benefit by the loan, and State Department strategy will be to hold 1t up until both sides can get together.
 President Truman has received reports from many steel mills that because of the coal shortage they will have to shut down after next week Re- publicanS aren't shouting about 1t, but they have raised S2000000 to win Congress next November That's more money than the Republicans have ever spent any non- Presidential election . Some people are wondering how far the doors of Atlanta, Lewisburg and Alcatraz will be "paroled" open in the future, now that T. Weber Wilson, the Mississippi barney expert has become head of the Federal Prison Parole Board Looks like Texas will have several new Congressman Bill McGraw, former law partner of Attorney General Tom Clark, will run for the vacant seat of Hatton W. Summers . Tommy Tyson of Corscana will for ,tlN district left by Luther Johnson when Johnson went in the Court Of Tax Appeals
 BeauteOuS COngresswOman Clare Luce of Connec- ticut may exercise a Womans prerogatve and change her mind about getting out of politics. Friends are urging her to for Admiral Hart's seat in the Senate .. Certain big business firms, especially those having NaN cartel arrangements before the war; have been pulling strings to curtail the budget of the Senate Kilgore Committee That Committee has done more tot prevent the rebuilding of Na2i industrial war machine than any other agency in Washington, Yet for some strange reason Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, considered good Senator. has fallen for the wire-pullng and has cut the Kil- gore Committees budget . Penguin Press is turn Ing out 100000 copies of Lowell Mellets Handbook Of Politics and Voters Guide" It contains the records Of Senators and Congressman up for reelection