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...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...
Purp or no Purp, the weekly meeting of WPB's strategic Requirements Committee is a solemn but frequently fantastic scene: one admiral (Navy), one lieutenant colonel (Maritime Commission), one general, at least one bigwig apiece from State, BEW, Lend-Lease and WPB's Civilian Supply section meet to battle over the absolutely minimum material needs of each absolutely essential division...
...Wallace & Perkins' Board of Economic Warfare took months to jockey Jesse Jones and the State Department out of position. By then BEW's most important role-control of imports and exports-was completely circumscribed by the shipping shortage. If it decides, for example, that Brazil deserves U.S. coal, it must line up as a petitioner to Admiral Land, standing in line behind the Army & Navy...
...BEW's powers mean that in six months U.S. foreign relations have graduated from striped pants, and that U.S. goods, markets and capital can now be employed realistically as weapons...
...referring to him as a sponsor of the pinko American League for Peace & Democracy, David B. Vaughan, a divisional chief of the BEW, sued Congressman Martin Dies for $75,000 libel damages. The only organizations he belongs to, protested Vaughan, are the Society for Advancement of Management, the Society for Personnel Administration and the Methodist Church...