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...approved U.S. participation in the Bretton Woods monetary program. On the final vote, party lines dissolved: 138 Republicans joined with 205 Democrats (and two minor party members) to pass, the bill, 345-to-18. (The dissenters were all G.O.P. bitter-enders.) The overwhelming vote was due to: 1) educational spadework by the Treasury Department; 2) sure-footed maneuvering by Speaker Sam Rayburn; 3) sober second thoughts by Republican House leaders. The nonpartisan character of the vote prompted a happy comment from President Truman: Congress would really be ready for the peace treaty...
...Conference Enough. This spadework done, U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius sent the Pan American Union the formal U.S. reply. "There is going to be a conference in which the Argentine question can be discussed," it said in effect. "One conference is enough...
Cartel Hater. The man who sketched this picture was balding, dimple-chinned Wendell Berge (rhymes with dirge), 41, boss of the antitrust division. Berge had gone West to present his case, making seven anti-cartel speeches along the way. Before that, he had done the spadework for the Administration's campaign, with 28 indictments now pending...
Last week the London Observer observed : "The Prime Minister has no time to meet and know his many ministers. He leaves them free to busy themselves with the spadework; and immense labors have gone into the survey and collation of reconstruction problems. But these industrious ministers have no power to make policy; their committees can only draft and recommend; and the Cabinet seldom meets. Yes or no must be said. It must be said, nominally at any rate, by Mr. Churchill, who has his friends by him. There is the Lord Privy Seal [Beaverbrook]. There is the Minister of Information...
...actual spadework of unwinding the industrial machine would be done by the present procurement agencies. Until war's end, the new agency would be under...