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...Robert P. Patterson dealt Nelson the unkindest cut. He said sweetly that he held Jeffers in "high esteem," deeply regretted if his "recent remarks should have been interpreted as reflecting" on Jeffers...
Nelson to the Hill. But the main attack on Nelson came from Capitol Hill, where the Truman Committee had begun to delve into the rubber and 100-octane programs. When War Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson charged that the rubber program had caused a shortage of 100-octane gasoline for planes, and thus delayed all-out bombing of Germany, the public had thought he was after the Rubber Czar, Bull Bill Jeffers. But when the Truman Committee dug, they hardly noticed Jeffers; the real quarry turned out to be Nelson...
Actually, Arnold, now a Federal judge himself, had been looking down his nose at A.P. for several years. In 1940 he had tried to persuade Washington Times-Herald publisher Eleanor Patterson to file a complaint after her application for A.P. membership was blocked by the Washington Star and Post. She refused. Two years later Marshall Field was willing. Target of the suit is A.P.'s set of bylaws. Under them it is almost impossible for a newspaper owner to get A.P. service, even if he can pay, in a city where there is already an A.P. member paper...
...then there's Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The Tribune, like Joe Patterson's sheet, isn't too happy about this Russian alliance. Of course, it has every respect for the noble efforts of the valiant Russian heroes, but, as a recent editorial maintained, we mustn't praise them too much lest--mirabile dictu--the conquered peoples become afraid the Axis is going to be beaten. The Tribune's latest contribution to post-war planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth...
...showdown, "Judge" Patterson is confident that he can prove the rubber program out of balance, that civilians are being "coddled" with the promise of tires at the expense of fighting men, that Jeffers has grabbed so many materials the rubber program can now be safely cut back...