REPORTED SPLIT IN U.S. CABINET

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

REPORTED SPLIT IN U.S. CABINET

Denial By Mr Roosevelt

(Rec. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.

Mr Roosevelt told a Press conference that reports of a Cabinet split over the plan of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Henry Morgenthau, to take away industries from Germany were newspaper stories, essentially untrue in the basic facts. He expected no further meetings of the Cabinet Postwar SubCommittee—the Secretary of War, Mr H. L., Stimson, the Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, and Mr Morgenthau. The Associated Press of America says the letter to the Foreign Economic Administrator, Mr Leo Crowley, put the job of making Germany harmless after the war under State Department guidance. z While the letter covered nonGerman subjects in eight points it was apparently an outgrowth of the reported Cabinet split.