The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-12-03
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Washington
See Arthur vandenberg
New Secretary of State
Truman Regard High
For Michigan Senator

new oeCteIdty Oh oAd1e
Truman Regard High
For Michigan Senator
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON-Do not be
surprised if President Truman,
fresh from his great surprise
election triumph, designates
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
(R), Michigan, as secretary of
state in his new cabinet.
That Secretary of State
George C. Marshall wants to
retire is no longer a secret. And
the presidents intimates indi-
cate that he desires to make
the bipartisan foreign policy
an example for the troubled
world.
Some of the presidents in
Inmates think this can be sharp
ly emphasized by the appoint
ment of Vandenberg, the world
statesman, lifelong Republican,
to the No. l cabinet post.
Standardized Margaret Chase
Smith, of Maine, suggested
that Mr.. Truman name defeat
ed COP presidential candidate
Thomas E. Dewey the job.
Her suggestion was obviously
a hopeless one.
However, Vandenberg, who
will no longer be Senate for
eign relations committee chair
man because of Democratic
control of Congress, is regarded
as a natural" for the job.
OF all Republicans, Mr. Tru-
man regards Vandenberg as the
ablest. He worked with Van
denberg in the Senate. In the
campaign just ended Vanden-
berg made one foreign policy
speech in favor of Dewey. How
ever, it was scholarly and sur
prisingly mild.
The Democrats return to
power puts the party in a posi-
ton where it has to make good
on a sweeping farm aid pro-
gram.
1t is almost certain that the
new administration will make
another attempt to push
through the international wheat
agreement - this time with
good chance of success.
The pact doubtless will have
to be re-drafted but Agricul-
ture department officials think
an assured export market =
which the agreement guaran-
tees - is a must" in view OF
an anticipated mounting sur
plus of wheat. The original
agreement was killed by a Re-
publican-dominated Senate
committee.
What the Democrats will do
about the ticklish farm price
support structure is the big
question. The party would
scarcely dare make any change
in the system for 1949 since
many crops which will be har-
vested next year are already
in the ground.
However, Democrats are not
entirely satisfied with the slid
ing scale of supports the Re-
publicans have set up to be-
come operative in 1850.
Reliably expected + larger
administration grants of funds
for many farm agencies, includ-
ing the Rural Identification
Administration, the Soil Con
servation Service and farm
credit agencies.
=
In all the jubilation among
labor leaders over the election
results. John L. Lewis is pain.
fully silent.
The miners again ignored
John LIS political counsel a:
they did in 1910 when he urged
them to vote for Wendell Viii
kie and resigned as CLIO presi
dent when they did not.
President Truman's smashing
victory was a sad story for tn,
UNIV chief. In any future tus
sic between the government
and the miners in a nationa
emergency coal strike, Levi
can expect Truman to throw
the book at him.
The president is not likely I,
forget the vitriolic speech tina
Lewis made to the miners con
4, vention in Cincinnati las
month when the union officia
denounced the president in bit
ter terms.