Pearson Rumor Not True, Says Bruening

Heinrich Bruening, former Chancellor of the Weimar Republic and now Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Government, yesterday denied, through his secretary, reports that he was to be appointed chief governing official of the British, French, and American zones of Germany.

In refuting a story broadcast by Drew Pearson on Sunday evening that Bruening would be named to the post, his secretary said that the former chancellor had not been approached either publically or privately for any such office. Bruening was not available for comment yesterday.

The story first came to the attention of the American press last Wednesday when the Federal Communications Commission monitored a Moscow broadcast which declared that Bruening would head the combined occupation governments of the Western powers.