The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-04-04

Gromyko May be
Relieved of Post
as Ambassador


Diplomats expect the appoint
ment of a new Soviet ambassador
10 Washington TO replace over
burdened Andrei Gromyko.
He spent most Of the week prior
10 the Iranian crisis looking for
quarters in New York. The am
bassador was not seeking office
space for his stafl, but home for
himself and family.
This is interpreted to mean that
Gromyko will be the permanent
Soviet member of the United Ma
tions Council.
Gromyko also is Foreign Minister
Niacheslav Molotov's deputy on the
Five Power council drafting peace
treaties and represents Russia on
the Far Eastern commission. OBJ
servers do not see how he can fill
all these posts and continue as
ambassador.
THE UNITED STATES has
promised hungry Europe and Asia
225 million bushels OF wheat in the
first six months OF l94e. So far.
government food officials see only
1877 million bushels in sight.
The famine emergency commit
tee is worried about the remaining
SO million bushels OF wheat-where
II is and how TO get it. There Is
no huge stockpile from which TO
take the missing bushels. Presi-
, dent Truman's food conservation
program is expected to provide
some Of II.
But unless stringent government
action-in the form OF rationing
or confscation OF wheat on farms
is taken. II looks like the United
States will fall short Of its commit
ments.
EDWIN W. PAULEY'S unsuc-
cessful hght for the post OF under
secretary OF the Navy may turn
out to have been utterly futile from
the beginning.
The Job generally is regarded as
a springboard TO the secretaryship.
II Congress should create a single
defense department. however. a
secretary OF the Navy would be as
obsolete as a frigate.
Speculation already is wide
spread in Washington on the ap-
pointment Of q secretary OF national
defense II, as and when such Job
is created. The name OF Gen.
George c. Marshall. wartime chief
of stan, is most frequently heard.
AMERICAN SCIENTISTS are
plenty worried about the way Con-
gress Is handling atomic energy
legislation.
The Vandenberg amendment pro-
viding for military review OF a
civilian commissions decisions
still irks them.
They want no part Of military
control over atomic energy.
Unaccustomed to political fnag-
ling, the scientists have reported
TO outspoken public criticism OF the
May-Johnson bill in the hope that
public opinion would be aroused
against tn6 HedsuIe.
Behind the scenes. however, the
Army has moved quietly among
its friends TO secure at least
foothold in the future administra-
ton OF Americas famed secret.
Some scientists have warned
that military direction would mean
scientific suicide" for the nation,
and there are indications that non
plussed researchers. fearing Army
authority, would drastically cur
tail their work.
President Truman has recon-
mended civilian control OF the atom
bomb and its future potentalities,
but the showdown on who will he
in charge OF the mighty atom"
has yet 10 be settled.
SOME MEMBERS OF CON
GRESS who took wartime excur.
sions overseas now are reported in
difficulties among their Constitu.
onts.
A highly.placed administration
spokesman in the House said they
are having trouble in their cam.
paigns for reelection.
The voters back home want 10
know why their representatives
did not remain In Washington and