RELIEVED OF JOBS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 4

RELIEVED OF JOBS

AMERICAN EXECUTIVES

DISPUTE AIRED IN PUBLIC

PRESIDENT ’CLEARS DECK

(By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.! (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 16. President Roosevelt, in a sweeping reorganisation on the home front, has relieved the vice-President, Mr. H. A. Wallace, and Mr. Jesse Jones of responsibility for foreign economic waifare.

President Roosevelt has abolished the Bureau of Economic Warfare and transferred its functions and also the functions of all subsidiaries dealing with foreign economic matters to tne Office of Economic Warfare, which he created under the leadership of Mr. Leo T. Crowley, who is at present the custodian of alien property. President Roosevelt severely reprimanded Mr. Wallace and Mr. Jones for publicly airing a dispute concerning the purchases of foreign strategic materials. The White House made public a letter from the President to the heads of all Government departmerits and agencies telling them that if they disobey President Roosevelt s previous instructions to bring lntoidepartmcntal disputes to him before airing them in the press, he expects them" to send in their resignations immediately. . . , .. . President Roosevelt, in identical letters to Mr. Wallace and Mr. Jones, said that tic had come to the conclusion that the unfortunate acrimonious public debate between them made it necessary in the public interest to transfer their administration of foreign economic affairs to other hands and added: “My. action is not intended to decide who is right but to clear the deck and get on with the war at once. This requires a fresh start with new men. unencumbered by dissension and bitterness.”