The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-23
by DreSO Pearson

strike that he planned to Dc away during the mOntn of December lie has on arthrtio snOvdeE Wnlgh " bothered him for some montM anu ne wanVsa s1.'s ss to Ret N baked out ln sunny climate Lne first cabinet dinner was replee with a tne ola pre wartime formallty from whlte-tiessand.tain 70 vne Marine Corps band Military and nayAl Moes weLs A, everywhere Guests who attended Cabinet dinners n both khe Truman and Roosevelt Adrinlstratl0ns Le- marked that the food was better under Mrs ITumsn @ and the White House looked better palnteu, anu heater The old Roosevelt informallty was gone . . Paint and labor of course, were hard to get durne wartime and then, too, Mrs. Roosevelt was away . lot Mrs Truman, on the other hand, porn nVuss " keeper. . Even the servants have changeu " Ms White House under Truman The staid old colcred walters and buffers of F,DR,b day have peen Ee- placed by younger men.
 Chronological events involving chronic state Department habit.
 s~ra.v. n.o. ak-rhis commentator stated that D. a Ambassador George MesSererllth had been ore dered to Washington from Argentina Tor conswDe- tons" which meant showdown over future U D. POi- icy toward Dictator Peron.
 Monday, Dec le-state Department career y COys poohed-poo this Ambassador Messersmitn tney admitted was coming back, but only to see nS zoe. tor His trip had absolutely nothing to do with any discussion of Argentine-U 8. policy
 Wednesday Dec. lS-lNOrthrlsht Secretary .,od of State Byrnes, back from New York confirmed the fact that Messersmith had been ordered nome Ior a full-dress review of U g. policy Ills trip, said Byrnes had nothing to do with his doctor
 NOTE-When Q newspaperman makes msvaas, s, it's called chronic lie When D. g. diplomat issues a diplomatic denial It's only chronic habit
 Actually, the showdown with Ambassador Messer- smith is much more important than any squappe over State Department veracity rever the person. alites of MeSsersmith and his superior, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Brader. It goes to the root of whether the United States B to cooperate with the only Fascist minded nation in the western Hemisphere which has consistently failed to carry out its peldges regarding the NaHis.
 Messersmlth, who had an excellent record m Europe as the first U. S. diplomat to raise tne req flag against Hitler has become on apologist TOT Peron His confidential cables to the State Depart ment surround the Argentine Distator with angelic halos.
 Recently N. r. Times reporter Frank kuck- holm was picked up by the Buenos Aires police, who took away his foreign correspondent credentials and put him through the usual Peron system of ntmida- tion. Ambassador Messersmith, whose job 1t Is to protect American citizens, even when they happen to be critical newsmen, reported the incident to the State Department with this comment:
 "This action was not important and of no S.g- nifcance,"
 Meanwhile the State Department has learned that the Argentine Government Is withholding meat and wheat from Bolivia and Uruguay in order to crack the anti-Peron regimes in those two countries.
 When Ambassador Messersmth returns, there- fore, the State Department faces a major showdown as to whether it will play ball with the new Dictator of Argentina, treat him as the embryo menace which Messersmith once so correctly reported was springing up in Germany and Austria