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...Pauley Disagrees. That brought Edwin W. Pauley into the picture. He had made a fortune out of oil taken from California's tidelands field. He argued that it would be a bad thing to let the issue go to the Supreme Court: the Government's lawsuit, filed by bumbling Attorney General Tom Clark, was clouding the titles of oil companies (such as his). Therefore, Congress should pass a resolution renouncing any U.S. interest in submerged lands. Not so much because of what he did as because of how he did it, Pauley could not become Under Secretary...
...Pauley and other advocates of states' rights had done their work well. The attorney general of California got 45 other state attorneys general behind him in a move to get Congress to decide the issue, without waiting for the Supreme Court. Last week the Senate, which had once unanimously favored letting the Court determine the question, voted 44 to 34 to settle it at once. Its decision: the states owned the land. The House went along...
...part of it all was that President Truman, who had stood stoutly by States' Rightsman Pauley, was believed certain to veto the bill. He thought it a matter for the Supreme Court to decide...
Last week the U.S. added new counts to its indictment of the Russian grab. Washington protested Russia's stripping of Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Edwin W. Pauley, chief U.S. reparations surveyor, charged that Russia's looting of Manchuria had stopped the wheels of $2 billion worth of industries and set back by a generation the industrial advancement of 900 million Asiatics...
...Pauley neatly tied reparations to the issue of integrated administration of Germany. German reparations cannot be shipped to Russia, he said, "because no zone commander can go forward until he knows whether Germany is in reality to be treated as a single economic unit, as was agreed at Potsdam, or whether he must plan to run his zone as an independent economy...