The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18
By DrssO Pearson

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 Moee controversial press conference in months was that la which Secretary Of War Patterson vas quoted as saying nc didn't know that overseas soluers has now received the verbatim report of tnat con ference as recorded by the 0.L newsmen attending t. The pertinent part reads m
 Secretary Patterson: "Tne War Department will discard the point system when It has served It's pur- pose After all would rather relieve man who has had long service than one who has been in service only Q short time, Under the point system you men are getting two points month as compared to one point given to those in the States Isn't that tarG
 di reporter: Like Helll Point accumulation stopped on Sept. 2, v-J Day"
 Patterson (surprised)s Tt oiop" 8n
 Patterson, continuing: "You men certainly know a lot about demobilization,"
 CT, reporter: Hell yes, that's all we think
 Privately the newsmen commended Tn fairness to Mfr Patterson we should say that he answered all other questions straighforwardly and apparently to the best of his ability He was very gracious through
 .But can you imagine the morale of cur readers when they learned that the Secretary of War was unaware that point compilation stopped as of Vt Day. Never did they expect that the head of the War Department believed that troops are merriy piling up two points a month"
 NOTE-When President Truman was head of the Truman Committee" he personally experienced similar incident with Patterson Then Under Secre- tary of War and in charge of the Ar1nys production program, Patterson told the Truman Committee that
 
 was under the civilian War Production Board, not under his own office The committee feeling certain that the Under Secretary of Wars office had charge of all rroduction asked Patterson about this several times but he insisted that he Under Secretary of War could not overrue the War Production Board
 After Patterson went back to the War Depart ment and conferred with his generals, however, he phoned the Truman Committee to admit that he hadn't known what his own powers were and that he did have complete final power the production of radar, radio, escort vessels and aircraft.
 
 Congress receives many strange appeals for help, but the oldest and most fardistant this session came to Representative Adolph Sapath of Illinois from lawyer in Travancore, India. The Indian wanted government grant of $l0000 he and his wife could spend several years studying in the United States
 Top State Department officials are mystified at just what President Truman meant when he talked about the conditional recognition of Yugo- slavia. When one State Department official was asked what conditional recognition" meant, he re- piled: "rf you find out, wish you would tell me and the Secretary of State. We would both like to know Actually diplomats say there nothing conditional about the recognition of YugoSlavia. Negoca- tions for the proposed postwar loan to Russia will open in about 90 days, when State Department off- cals sit down with the Russians to add up the final Russian Lend-Lease figures Odds on Capitol Hill are that Russia will not get large sum. The Uruguayan government is convinced that if Colonel Peron wins the forthcoming Argentine presidential election Uruguay will suffer Czechoslovakas fate six months later and become Argentine puppet If so. the American good-neighbor policy will be put to It's most serious test big test of the poll tax is due in the Senate soon. Fifty Senators-more than bill removing poll taxes as requirement. to vote in majority-have pledged themselves to vote for the Federal elections. Whether they ever get the chance to vote depends upon whether they willing to insist upon their right to vote in the face of fbuster threats by Senators Bilbo Eastland ct al.