The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-14

VIENNA-(By Wireless)-Harold 1ckes did the U. s. Navy great favor when he blocked the ebul- lient Ed Pauley from becoming Under, Secretary Of the Navy but unfortunately, Ickes wasn't able to bar Pauley from other fields of endeavor
 You don't realize how grateful the American public should be to Ickes until you've witnessed Pauley's work elsewhere All over Europe other Americans are now trying to pick up ana put oogetn CT the broken pieces resulting from Paueys cumSl- ness Here in Austria you see the results ot one or his worst blunders.
 When any good business firm signs contract it first brings in expert lawyers to scrutnze that con- tract from every possible angle But when the United States signed the contract on German separations, influencing whether American boys will fight again, we brought in a political pal of Harry Truman's, skilled in button -hoing delegates at the Chicago Democratic Convention. At Potsdam, Pal Pauley okayed the reparations agreement giving the Rus sians the right to take German property in various areas-but he forgot to define German property.
 In Austria today, Gen. Mark Clark is now trying to atone for that omission. For instance when Hitler seized Jewish property that property officially be- came German and now, under Paueys sllpshoa agreement the Russians carting off Jewish prop erty claiming it is German. Apparently they think the Jews didn't suffer enough.
 Another thing Pauley forgot was that in 1888 when Hitler took Austria, he nationalized all Austrian industry It therefore became officially Ger man and under Pauleys reparation rules 1t can oe seized by the Russians who are wasting no time 1n seizng despite the fact that, actually it is lO per- 
 on clash between Russian and American forces 1n Austria-a clash which is the most significant 1n Europe and which may set pattern for future U s. Russian policy
 General Clark, who did his best to cooperate with first has aboutfaced his original after you Aphonse" attitude and is opposing every unauthorized unfair the Russians make. When the Red Army started to take over Austrian industry General Clark tacitly encouraged the Aus trian government to pass law nationalzng all that nations industry under the Austrian government it. self. This really put the Russians on the spot for according to the tenets of Communism, industry should be natonazed. Thus, while trying to spread Comunism in Austria the Russians were in the posi- ton of going directly counter to Communism.
 By wanting Austrian industry for themselves, the Russians even had the gall to demand that the Aus trian parliament be overruled by the Allied armies of occupation. It at this point that Clark made neat of the famous veto as comrade Molotoff If anything, heater.
 The American commander had persuaded the Allied Council to adopt rule that any act of the Austrian Parliament shall become law if, after 31 days the Allied Council does not cverrule it. There for 31 days and the Russians out of luck The Austrian edict nationalizing industry then becomes law and the Reds can't seize it.
 With the Soviet drive to take over Austrian industry, Clark phoned Secretary of State Byrnes and got his OK plan to return to Austria the factories in the American The declaration of Moscow specifics that Austria was dragged into the