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Hail to Herbert Hoover for his head-clearing lecture on the United Nations [TIME, May 8], For those whose cries of pain followed, a volume of Grimm's Fairy Tales...
...executive expenditures, and progress, most of the plans seemed certain of passage. In fact, Congress took no action until May 10. Then Senator Taft attacked the most vulnerable of the proposals, No. 12, which would have abolished the office of General Counsel in the National Labor Relations Board. The Hoover Commission never made this specific recommendation and, since the Office was established by the Taft-Hartley Act, both the Republican and Southern Democrat supporters of that bill opposed such an action. The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Reports--a non-partisan group behind the reform measures--did not favor...
...Agriculture Department. On the last bill there was no debate--not one Senator arose to defend it. The opposition argument on these plans was that Truman was placing too much power in the hands of Department heads whom he appoints, and that the President did not strictly follow the Hoover Reports in his recommendations...
...start of the Capitol struggle, the Citizens Committee still seemed confident of favorable Congressional action on all but the N.L.R.B. plan. After two plans were defeated, a Senator asked Hoover, one of the Committee's more prominent members, to speak; Hoover remained silent. The Committee's heads finally began to campaign, when they realized that those opposed to executive reform--many large pressure groups and their Congressional friends for whom bureaucratic confusion begets success--were winning. Of course, some Senators, sincerely opposed any more centralization of executive authority...
Sixty-five percent of the Hoover Commission's proposals are still to be considered; Truman sent another batch of four to the Hill this month. And the 65 percent includes really controversial ones. Those favoring reform can only hope that the President holds close to the Commission's blueprints so that each measure can be debated on its own merits, not on partisan grounds. And, more important perhaps, so that Congress doesn't let the Capitol's balcony quarterbacks--the lobbies--call any more signals on its vital plays...