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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000100120129-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 129
• Publication Date: August 6, 1948
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/07/11 : CIA-RDP80M01009A000100120129-4
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By JERRY GREENE
Washington, D. C., Aug. 25.?The favorite hot weather
pastime in governmental departments these days is trying
to figure out who, if Gov. Dewey is elected President as ex-
pected, will get the top jobs and how many of the smaller
fry can stick around under a Republican Administration.
Dewey's Cabinet has been selected for him by the bureaucrats on
the average of six times daily and the latest dope sheet handicappers
are now running Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich.) Tor Secretary
of State instead of John Foster Dulles,.
Some of the lace-handkerctref hacks over at the State Department
are breezing around with this one, insisting that if the GOP maintains.
ttntrol of the Senate, which is by no means certain, Vandenberg, the
big bipartisan man in foreign affairs, is a cinch for the job.
A Behind-the-Scenes Job for Dulles?
The rumor-hounds, by no means detracting from Dulles' brilliance,
ability and knowledge of international affairs, say he is lacking in ad-
ministrative experience. What the department needs, they say, is a
tough, capable executive who is used to running business on a big scale.
Furthermore, the word goes, Dulles himself would prefer to become
a behind-the-scenes White House consultant, continuing to mold the
shape of affairs through his influence with Dewey rather than to step
out in front.
Now Vandenberg hasn't had much more in the way of executive
experience than Dulles, if any. But the handicappers figure that he
would be an imposing figure as Secretary of State. With Dulles over
Senator Arthur Vandenberg John Foster Dulles
at the White House in the backgtound, and with a big name executive
as Undersecretary to handle administrative affairs, the speculators
think Dewey would have a fine team and one already profitably engaged
in working together in the foreign field.
One big catch to this setup is that?provided the GOP keeps its
Senate control?a lot of hard horse trading would have to be done up
on Capitol Hill to arrange matters to suit the Republicans. For next
in line to succeed Vandenberg as chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee is Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin. Senators Arthur Capper
of Kansas and Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine are ahead of Wiley but
both are retiring from the Senate this year.
Low GOP Man on Seniority Totem Pole.
With Dewey, Dulles and Vandenberg solidly committed to an inter-
nationalist policy, there is little likelihood that they would care to see
a repsesentative from stanchly isolationist and midwestern Wisconsin
running the Foreign Relations Committee.
The GOP choice for the post, after Vandenberg, was reported to be
Senator Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. But he is the low GOP man
on the committee totem pole of seniority and it would take a powerful
lot of cloakroom dealing to maneuver him into the job.
If the Democrats, as they fondly hope, can capture the Senate
even while losing the Presidency, Tom Connally of Texas would move
back in as Foreign Relations chairman and Vandenberg would be avail-
able for the State Department.
Regardless of his eventual Cabinet selections, it's a cinch that one
place where Dewey will make a lot of changes is in the Government's
intelligence organizations. And here again the public will hear a lot
about another Dulles?this one is Allen and he is the younger brother
of John Foster.
Allen, with a splendid OSS record during the war and an intelli-
gence expert, is chairman of a three-man civilian committee which is
making a detailed survey of U. S. espionage and will report to the
President in January.
It is to be expected that Dewey will lean heavily on the younger
Dulles in making his changes in intelligence. In past speeches the
New York Governor has expressed something more than distaste for
the work of U. S. spies abroad. He thinks something ought to be done
so that this country won't be caught flat-footed again as in the case
of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, and the red-hot little uprising
down in Bogota, pulled off in the midst of a peace and harmony Pan
American conference.
Hasn't Forgotten Value of Undercover Work.
Dewey is keenly intelligence-minded and knows well the value of
top-notch undercover work from his days as District Attorney. He
thinks the U. S. had an effective spy system in the last days of the
war, then went a long way toward ruining it through administrative
stupidity. He has refrained from blasting the Democrats on this
score because, he has said, it might be hurtful to the country.
The current crop of intelligence experts here, incidentally, be-
lieves that if the Moscow conferences result in easing the pressure
in Berlin a bit, the Communists are going to turn on the heat in the
! Orient, particularly in Burma and Malaya, where fighting already is
in progress.
There isn't, as of today, any sign of peace in China for years
to come,jhe experts report, and the entire Far East is fruitful soil
for revolutions, uprisings and general hell-raising which will help the
Reds keep.the rest of the world off balance.
It's the old Soviet habit?push as far as you can here, let up at
the last moment and pour oil on the fires in some other part of the
globe.
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/07/11 : CIA-RDP80M01009A000100120129-4