DEFENSE SECRETARY'S APPOINTMENT HELD I P The Senate Armed Services committee has baiked at giving immedate approval to Charles E. Wilson as Secretary of Defense. Wilson has just retireo as presi dent of General Motors, which holds enormous numbers of de fense contracts. Wilson holds $-’.500,000 worth of GM stock, and informed the committee he has been promised bonuses of more Loan $000,000 over the next four \ cars. The committee wants clarification of the law limiting business holdings of government officials. DR. CONANT NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR GERMANS General Eisenhower nas chosen Dr. James B. Conant. president of Harvard University since 1933. as new U. S. high commissioner for Germany. He succeeds Walter J. Donnelly. At 59. Conant has be hind him a di tinguished career in chemistry and older sciences. He is a member of the advisory committee of the Atomic Energy

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