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...that finally sucked Mrs. Rosenberg into Washington is highly charged politically. She will have umpteen Washington agencies plus 20,000,000 servicemen and warworkers to cope with. Her boss, Brigadier General Hines, will retain his 21-year-old job as Veterans Administrator. The General is not quite what Bernard Baruch prescribed in his Reconversion Report, "of such outstanding caliber as to command the immediate confidence of the country," but he is an iron-willed, Army-trained administrator of the Old School. The gap between their social philosophies is at least as wide as the difference between their ages (21 years...
This week, just three days after Baruch submitted his report, Jimmy Byrnes dis closed that both jobs had been filled, by Executive order. Ex-Cotton King Will Clayton, 64, of Houston, resigned as Man Friday to Jesse Jones, became Sur plus Property Administrator...
Approach to X-Day. Another main Baruch recommendation was on war-contract cancellation policy. The chief suggestion: that WPB and the services prepare an "X-Day Reconversion Plan" ("X-Day" being the day Germany folds up) that would establish 1) what civilian production should start first, 2) what industries and plants should get in on the ground floor...
...ruchian wisdom, which is as platitudinous as most wisdom in that it concentrates on the all-too-often-forgotten obvious things, which are so often the fundamentals. As Clausewitz contributed to military science such statements as "the overthrow of the Enemy [is] the aim of military action," so Messrs. Baruch & Hancock advise the U.S.: "Transition from a war economy to that of peace is not easy; nothing worth-while...
...with every special interest in & out of Government demanding particulars, Messrs. Baruch & Hancock took a cold look at policy problems in general-and drew obvious conclusions. The great service that the report performed for the nation was that it dumped a lot of particular problems into one package and suggested some common-sense ways to lick them before they could lick the nation...