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...April 13, 1942, the President vested in BEW complete control of all public-purchase import operations. Mr. Jones has never been willing to accept that fact. He has instead done much to harass the administrative employes of the board in their single-minded effort to help shorten this...
Jesse Jones had never been reconciled to letting control of wartime stockpiles pass to BEW from his own Reconstruction Finance Corp. Up & down Capitol Hill Jesse Jones went, working steadily on his wide circle of friends and debtors, even hinting publicly that he considered BEW an irresponsible one-man show. A whispering campaign started in Congress: BEW was giving away U.S. money to build postwar industries in Russia and South America; it was trying to introduce bathtubs to the Amazon jungles...
Last week Henry Wallace discovered that the Senate Appropriations Committee was about to scuttle BEW by 1) cutting out its funds for traveling expenses, 2) giving Jesse Jones veto power over its foreign purchases...
...Africa the U.S. learned that rehabilitation involves more than just handing out milk: it is also affected, for better or worse, every time Lend-Lease provides military supplies, BEW buys up local products or the Treasury dabbles in the local currency. For the bigger job ahead, these agencies agreed last week, they can no longer afford to work apart...
Result of this fracas: although the goods are already under way, no setup exists in North Africa to distribute them at the right prices. The price angle is important because French North Africa is suffering from serious inflation. Thus BEW last week was frantically teaching Army and Navy officers how to run rationing and price control, how to by-pass existing Axis-established laws when distributing U.S. civilian goods in Africa. This itself was a strange commentary on the Army's and the Navy's "Gauleiter" schools at the University of Virginia and Columbia, where the teaching...