The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-07
by Dre1e, Pearson

sure that his Wallace row hit the headlines But he hasn't wanted publicity regarding the backstage feud he has carried on with Undersecretary of State Dean AcheSon over the same subject-the atomic bomb
 The spectacle of the rampant Mir Baruch stri- dently defending his prestige elder statesman has made some people around the State Department wonder: Is Bernie an elder statesman Or a prima donna? Bernie, who personally is of the most lived people around Washington, simply can't bear to have his authority challenged To differ with Bernie is personal affront, as even his great and good friend Jimmie Byrnes discovered At one time Bernie was even rowing with Jimmie
 The Acheson dispute began when the State De- partment made the mistake of releasing the Acheso- Lilenthal report atomic energy shortly before Baruch was appointed to be U. S. atomic delegate to the United Nations Had the Acheson report been held up and handed to Baruch privately he could have issued it himself and doubtless it would be official U. s. policy today.
 Baruch, however, called in his Wall Street experts, John Hancock of Lehman Brothers and investment banker Ferdinand Eberstadt who worked out sep arate atomic energy policy For than week afterward Baruch and his advisers met secretly with AcheSon at Blair House, across from the State De- partment trying to reconcile their conflicting view points. They still not together And Bernie has virtually indicated that he won't play ball unless he gets his way
 NOTE-Acheson's position on atomic energy con- trol is much nearer Wallaces.
 Finland has been known to Americans as the little country which always paid it's debts Now how ever, the U. s. is getting the reputation among Films as country which breaks it's financial promises
 What happened is that year ago Finland sent trade delegation here to arrange for a $7OOOOO0o loan from the Export-Import Bank. The loan was promised and on the basis of this promise the Films made purchases amounting to $35 900 in the united States with partial commitments for the re- maining $35 100000
 Part of the deal was that Finland was to secure coal rom this country which in turn would help ir- crease her newsprint production. Many American newspapers made arrangements to buy this extra newsprint.
 However something has now caused the State Department to reverse itself. The Export Import Bank loan to Finland has been held up
 Actual though unannounced reason for the re- Versal is the fact that Finland now in the Soviet sphere of influence and it's feared that any financial help would indirectly aid Russia However there is considerable difference of opinion regarding this Some government officials maintain that the Finnish people are overwhelmingly pro-American and that loan would more than offset what indirect aid might go to Russia
 So far however the Films still waiting
 The New York Times and other papers manned walter Winchell for alegedly causing the stock mar Ret crash when he quoted General DeGaulle as be- nevng there would be between the United States and Russia However, the same papers did not give W1nchel line of credit when DeGaulle in his speech last week confirmed Winche up to the hilt DeCsaue warned the French people of 6 clash between an 70 ambitious grouping of Slavs" and young America overfowing with resources"