The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
By DreSC Pearson

Truman last weekend, but was turned down cold Hannegan's wife and doctor are both urging him to resign. However, the President told flanagan he could not be spared at least until after the November elections . President Truman has asked Secretary of the Interior Cap Erug to set up an ipterdepart- mental committee to handle oil problems to be com posed of Interior, Navy War, Treasury, Congress and the State Department. This is exactly what Harold Ickes urged at the start of the Pauley fight If accepted, Ickes wouldn't have raised such Truman, at that time, however, said such a board would be an affront to his pal Pauley. Mem bers of the Bring Back Daddy Club" organized by wives and mothers of men with children who are still in the service scheduled to descend Wash ington on Monday May 13 They have served advance notice they will remain until the release of all fathers in the armed forces is guaranteed by Congress or the Army and Navy. Any time g group of determined women stage sit-down lobby in the Capitol there should be interesting developments UN.RFsA to register stiff protest at the White House against the lady dictator of the State Department Mrs Ruth B. shipley, dispenser of passports LaGuardia complains that Earl Browder, convicted of pass port fraud had no trouble getting his papers to go to Moscow. Yet several members of UNRRA missions hired to go to Norway White Russia and China have been refused passports by lady dictator Shipley. Though his Commerce Department is in charge of U s. foreign trade policy, Secretary Henry Wallace is still being denied chance to read the report Russian economy sent the State Depart ment by George Kennon of our Moscow Embassy This report, under lock and key at the White House has even been shown to Republican Senator Arthur
 
 officer in charge of foreign trade. While the Russians beam Il broadcasts daily to the U.SA, we will have voice to compete with those of the Kremln, London, Paris or Madrid-if the action of the House in cutting the State Departments Inter national Information Service is upheld by the Senate The budget voted by the House is too small and the State Department will probably have to abandon the one effective means of getting the story Of America across censorship barriers to the rest of the world.
 Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has persuaded the United States to loan England 12 transports to move the 100000 anti-Soviet Polish troops from Italy back to England Secretary of State James Byrnes has rejected proposal from Bevin to move these Poles to the United States. It was all set for Herbert Hoover to visit Russia when Secretary of State Byrnes ntervened. The Russians had given their okay but suddenly Byrnes cabed Hoover urging him not to go New Philippine President-elect Manuel Roxas will arrive in Washington about the middle of this month. |. Former Polish Premier Stanislaw Mkolajczyk has warned the Allies that there can be no free elections in Poland until the Red Army gets out. Mikolajczyk also charged that the Red Army controls 100000 acres of Polish farm land while the Polish people starve. The State Department is renewing its petition to the Yugoslav Government for American flyers to testify at the trial of Gen. Draja Mikhaiovch The Russian Government has just contributed S00O0 tons of wheat to Czechoslovakia However it doesn't want to work through UNRRA in donating wheat, for in that case its wheat couldn't be used for propaganda pr- poses.