The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-30
By Dre1c Pearson

stead, they went to a special philanthropic fund selected by Stettinus
 chief ghost-writer for the stettinius Lend-Lease book was Wilder Foote, who had started with the office of War Information at $3,2OO year, was later rewarded with an $80O0-a-year job His final reward however, is his appointment Stettinius public relations chief at the United Nations in New York,
 Congressional scuttIing of the OPA Bill has brought public wrath not only the heads of guilty Congressmen, but on even the bameless few who fought doggedly to preserve price controls.
 typical example is Republican Representative Dick Welch of San Francisco, who voted against every crippling OPA amendment right down the line Yet Welch is receiving numerous letters bonn barding him as an OPA foe. It Illustrates how rate the general public is over the magnificent lobbying fob put across on Congress and how dumb Con- gressmen were to fall for It.
 'These writers make no distinction" laments the san Francisco Congressman grooming under his mail "Theyre blaming the whole House of Repre- sertatiyes for what happened. There also seems to be tendency to pick on the Republican Party"
 welch pointed to the fact that Republicans such as Baldwin of New York, Wolverton, Canhelq ana Kean of New Jersey, Klnkel and Fulton of Penn- sylvania Bender of Ohio LaFollette of Indiana, and Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, all were vigorous voting champions of price control & Tegs % nSWever were in the minority. The great bulk or Nepuphcans voted to send OPA down the drain.
 
 There was a hotter fight against the Admdnis- tration,s Arrny-Navy Merger Bill than members o1 ae Senate Military Affairs Committee indicated to the press when they emerged from closeo-door meeting a$ which the bill was approved by lO-l vote.
 Besides COP Senator Thomas c. Hart of Com necticut who cast the solitary NO" vote, another member refused to vote the ground that the measure was being railroaded by Chairman Ebert Thomas of Utah. Two other Senators also reserved the right to oppose the unification plan during suo- sequent Senate debate.
 The non-voter was COP. Senator George Will son of Iowa. He heatedly declared that the commit tee was acting without proper consideration and pe fore the general public has had chance to acquain itself with the merits of the complex legislation
 Democrat Burnet Maybank of South Carolina and Republican Alexander Smith of New Jersey gave wilson moral support by asserting that their votes to report out the Merger Bill didn't mean they would vote for it on the floor
 Republican objections also were raised about the fact that only three Democrats-Thomas, Maybank and Lister Hill of Alabama-were present at the meeting Hart retired Navy admiral, and Wilson contended that if Administration spokesmen were sincerely behind the bill, the Democrats should at least be present to vote.
 Chairman Thomas looked warily down the minor ity side of the table at the Six Republicans present and served notice that he had three proxy" votes of Democratic absentees He didn't however. have to use any persuasion on COP. Senators Warren Austin of Vermont and Chan Gurney of South Dakota, who always salaam in the direction of the Pentagon building.