The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-09
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. j. How
ard McGrath's resignation as
chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee to become at
torney general is expected TO
mean even tighter White House
control over patronage and 9TH
er high-policy party matters,
Washington insiders are
aware that President Truman
and MeGrath frequently failed
to see eye-to-eye on such issues.
Such is not the case with Will
liam tBilD Boyle, the Kansas
City product picked to succeed
McGrath. Boyle is strictly the
presidents man, and there will
be no arguments between the
chief executive and the man
who takes the reins as party
pilot.
Presidential Assistant Donald
Dawson, who keeps pretty well
in the background, is due to
play an increasingly important
role in the party lineup. Daw-
son, described by Mr.. Truman
as one of his brightest and most
trusted aides, has worked close
ly with Boyle for many months.
Thus, with McGrath now the
oretically at least aloof from the
hurly-burfy of party squabbles,
a new team is taking shape for
the admittedly tough struggle,
the Democrats face in next
years congressional elections.
Congressional aviation COM
mittees, and aeronautics
branches of the government in
general are gravely concerned
over the threat to American
commercial dominance posed by
Britain's new all-jet De Havil-
land Comet airliner.
The United States has put its
eggs in the old-style conven-
tional engine basket as Britain
has gambled that in the COM
mercial aviation field enough
people will be willing to pay
the price that jet air transport
will cost.
Most American aviation lead
ers doggedly and hopefully be-
lieve that the expense of oper-
ating jet transports will prohibit
any general acceptance of that
mode of air travel.
The Comet made its first
flight recently, within three
years, after it went on the draw
ing boards. British experts con-
tend it will slash the 14-hour
travel time between Europe and
America to six hours.
That is just what American
leaders fear. They know that
most people who fly the At
lantic have enough money, eth
er business-wise or personally,
to pay the increased fare to cut
their time over water to less
than hall.
Look for further charges by
a Senate subcommittee that
United Nations employees, have
engaged in Communist espion-
age in this country.
Senator Patrick A. McCar-
ran Cd, Nevada, chairman of
the Senate group, has made it
clear that his committees in
vestigation of an alleged link
between the United Nations
and Communist agents has not
yet been completed.
Committee sources already
have charged that there is a
Communist underground rail-
road" bringing foreign agents
into the United States and has
linked it to lat least one" UN
delegate.
The committee, which has
been conducting an extensive
investigation, is expected to
make public its findings when
the probe is completed.
Investigators now are search
ing for final details on the "un-
foreground railroad" To date.
the details of their inquiry have
been kept secret for fear of
"hampering" the Investigation.
Because of what some critics
believe is Observation-Disclosures"
of Japan by United States oc-
cupation authorities, reports are
current that there soon will be
a material reduction in head
quarters personnel in Tokyo.
Withdrawal of some of the
administrators" will conform
with growing State department
sentiments that more and more
of the actual government of
Japan should revert to the Jap
anese = and the sooner the
better.
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