At almost the moment the massive Baruch report on reconversion problems (see p. 79) reached Franklin D. Roosevelt's desk last week it turned into a red-hot issue in the running fight between Congress and the President. This was the last thing that Author Baruch had expected. Though his report came out as opposed to a separate Office of Demobilization, the proposal of the Senate's Postwar Planner Walter F. George, Baruch had honestly and significantly buttered up Congress throughout his 120-page tome.
To Walter George such talk was just cover-up stuff. (Baruch's literary...