MR NELSON RESIGNS

Southland Times, Issue 25483, 2 October 1944, Page 5

MR NELSON RESIGNS

Chairman Of United States War Production Board

(8.0.W.) RUGBY, September 30. Mr Donald Nelson, chairman of the United States War Production Board, has resigned.

Mr Roosevelt, in accepting his resignation, stated he was counting on Mr Nelson to remain in the Government in a high post of major importance. In his letter of resignation, Mr Nelson stated that his work in China with Lieutenant-General P. J. Hurley was now completed. He had contemplated resignation ever since war production successfully met its crucial test in the invasion of Europe, and he delayed resignation only until he could set a course for the War Production Board in the reconstruction policy.. Mr Julius Krug has been appointed chairman of the War Production Board in succession to Mr Nelson. Mr Roosevelt said that Mr Nelson’s new post was connected with laying the ground work for postwar economic cooperation with other nations. The Washington correspondent of The New York Times reports that Mr Nelson has probably become a kind of roving commercial ambassador, travelling as Mr Roosevelt’s personal representative as he did on missions to Russia and China.