The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19
By DreSC PearSOn

but couldn't resist reminding Truman:
 T am honored to be your first appointment Mir. President, and as Republican to have the first opportunity to congratulate you"
 'Thank you very much" replied the President. Tt hasn't been an easy year but I've done the best could"
 In Q chatty mood, Truman inquired at great length about the Pennsyvanian's combat experiences with advance naval bonlbardment units at Luzon Or dinarly a punctilious clock-watcher, he detained young Fulton several minutes over time. Finally Fulton left, Truman satd &<
 'Im glad to see young ex-servcemen like your self in Congress- There's room for more like you-nen who reflect the views of the home folks. Some of the older members of Congress seldom get back to their districts and they don't know what the people want"
 President Truman offered Averel Hartman the job of Under Secretary of the Navy before asking him to become Ambassador to London. This meant Har- riman would have become Secretary of the Navy when Forrestal stepped out. He turned 1t down however, because, favoring the merger, he said he couldn't efnciently the Navy with the adinirals (who oppose the merger) all against him Capt. Granville Conway, head of the War Shipping Administration, has turned in his resignation. An other good man lost to government Gen. John Dean, former U s. military attache in Moscow, is irked over being reduced from major general to brgader general and will exit New Republi- can Chairman Carroll Reece of Tennessee received an embarrassing kiss from soaltionist ex.Congress- man Hamilton Fish of New York. Fish called Reece splendid choice" praised his Congressional record as practically identical" with Fishs own. He even revealed that Reece had offered to speak for Fish during the 1914 campaign in which Tom Dewey and COP leaders united with Democrats to defeat Fish.
 More inside information has now leaked out re- earding the Iranian dispute all of 1t indicating that the Iranian Government vas under terrific pressure from Russia.
 The fnGl message from Teheran to Ambassador Ala, asking to withdraw Trans dispute from the agendS, arrived only at Monday, just two hours before the Security Council to meet. It was sent so hastily that was not even coded. Ordinarily 1t takes couple of hours to epcode and decode dip omatic message
 Meanwhile, the secret has now come out that for long tme Ambassador Ala was kept completely in the dark by his Government When the Security CouncH first met, three weeks ago, Ala had received no instructions for i5 days. However, acting com pletety on his own he proceeded to place the dis pute before the Council
 Afterward he radioed Teheran telling them what he had done and expressing the hope that they not let him down.
 Meanwhile the Russians had picked up his mes sage, broke the lranian diplomatic code and knew exactly what he had said. That was why Polish Am baSsador Lange next day entirely familiar with the fact that Ala was acting on his own. and with cut instructions from Teheran.
 The Russians pressured the Iranian Government by threatening Tudeh (Communist Party) rev6lts in the South also promised that If Premier Ghavam behaved his property in the Caspian Sea area would not be touched,