The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-05

Up until very recemthy, the G
This began Just one day aftel
ON March 4, 1898. At that time
the initial outbreak Of anti
Jewish activities - the career
boys in the American embassy
cabled from Berlin that Hitler
had promised to be good. The
Jewish drive was to terminate.
American Jews were to be re-
spected.
Secretary Hull, green Mt the
game, accepted this on Its
face; was shocked and disap-
pointed few days later to
ilnd that it meant nothing.
Meanwhile, insults and arrests
of American citizens continued.
In some cases Americans have
been imprisoned without right
to see counsel. Occasionally, the
career boys in Berlin dropped in )
to see them, but not often. One
Americans release was secured
chiefly because of the mighty
howl raised by Senator Borah.
DEBT DISCRIMINATION
The state departments most
clear-cut opportunity to protest
Nazi discrimination was when
Germany defaulted on interest
payments to American holders of
Dawes and Young Plan bonds, !
meanwhile paying Dutch, Swiss
and British holders Of the same
bonds.
At first the career boys passed
No. Co
eral trade commission went over
their heads; took the case direct
to the president. After that the
state department got busy.
BY this time both Hull and
Roosevelt had become a little
skeptical about their career
boys. Hull found that John
White, counselor of the embassy
in Berlin, had deleted certain
''free press" sections Of HulPs
Associated Press speech before
making it public in Germany.
(Nazis do not believe in a free
press.)
WHITE HOUSE DICTATES
AS a result of all this, Hull
and Roosevelt have been consid-
ering a shake-up in the Berlin
embassy. Meanwhile, policy to-
ward the Nazis is dictated direct
from the White House.
Roosevelt, from the first
days in 1888, was anti-Nazi.
Today he is even more SO.
It may be too late, however,
to make much impression. Con-
fidential reports received here
are to the effect that Nazis are
dead set on their program;
determined to ignore the outside
world.
ROOSEVELT FAMILY
The presidents young son
John is as successful as the
presidents wife, Eleanor, in
keeping out Of the public prints
these days.
He has been working strictly
incognito at his forestry job
with the IVA in the hills of Ten
nessee. In the sparsely settled
reservoir area above Norris
Dam, he moves among people
who have not seen his picture;
meets no probing pressmen.
He eats rough chow, sleeps
i'm rough quarters, enjoys
holiday from curious glances.
But one day his incognito
broke down.
John had to have some money.
He drove to Knoxville, walked
into a bank and presented a
check.
The name in the lower right
hand corner was "Franklin ID.
Roosevelt"
THIRD PARTY
Harry Hopkins has got him.
self into the awkward situation
of giving aid and comfort to the
radical third party movement.
Almost no one knows 1t, but
the platform of the third party
group, which met in Chicago
last month, was lifted almost
bodily out of an economic
survey made with FERA fed
eral funds.
The survey was an effort to
give work to unemployed. New
York had a lot of technical men
in or near the breadlines; set
them TO boon-doggling on this
question: What could U. s. in
dustry produce II worked to
capacity?
Their unavoidable conclusion
was that the country could pro-
duce plenty; that present ills
grow out of failure to distribute.
1t was but a step from this
to accusing capitalism of that
failure, advocating its over
throw.
The engineers did not take
this step, but the third party,
using their findings, did. It lifted
the report almost in toto.
One of the engineers helping
to prepare the original FERA
report was Russian--born radi-
cal Walter L. Polakov. Having
finished the report, Polakov is
now working directly under
Hopkins in Washington.
DELETED
Gallery listeners in the senate
the other day heard a tilt be-
tween Glass of Virginia and Con-
nally of Texas which does not
appear in the Record.
It was stricken out because 1t
became too personal. Principal
objection came from the tall
Texan on the grounds that he
was preferred to as handsome
man.
Glass started It, abetted by
Mcclellan of Tennessee. Here is
the dialogue, indebted:
GLASS: The senator from
Texas denounced rayon as a
fraud and deception because
rayon looks like silk. The sena-
tor from Texas looks pious.
Look at him now. Is that de-
ception upon the public?
McKEhLAR: Oh, no; because
I think he is one of the hand
soonest men in the senate.
CONNALIY: Mr.. President. I