The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-30

lOWlndSOrS
 Washington, Oct. 30 - In wash. ington, at least, enthusiasm over the coming American tour of those two great lovers, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, falls well this side of the bonfire burning stage.
 The great heart of America may go out to these twain In
 the form of mob demonstrat
 society brawls over their enter
 tainment and antics of local
 politicians. But insofar as fed
 eral government officials are
 concerned, the frost is on the pumpkin. There Is eve ma sus-
 piclon among them that the
 fanfare over the royal visit may be interspersed with one or two
 sour notes.
 The State Department professes vagueness as to the Dukes status en tour and thus far there hasn't been Q peep out of the British em- bassy. Later, possibly, this will be all fixed up and happy, cozy time will be enjoyed by all. Just at present, however, there's @ notice- able tension in the air at the eIo- bassy.
 Ickes Cold to Bedeaux
 The flippant press conference rec marks of Secretary Ickes anent his cool response to the request of Char les E. Bedaux-who has full charge of the Eddie-Wally invasion-for a suggested itinerary of projects ap- pears to have pitched the official key. For the time being, at least, Ickes let the cabled request go un- answered for about a week.
 Bedaux representatives then
 put him on the spot by letting
 newspapermen know he had the
 cable. Ickes cabled Q list of PWA and other projects collect
 and said to correspondents,
 among other things: "He will have to w1k out his own ltlner- ary and handle his own pub-
 licity." The reference was to Bedaux, not the Duke of Wind- sOr.
 The obvious fact Is that Ickes took his cue or thought he was taking 1t from down the street in the White House-state Department region.
 Whether or not the government later manages to defroSt itself, it's certain to see to 1t that arrange lnents are made for police protec- ton. It just would never do to let our souvenir-hunters in mass for- nation tear the clothes of the brother of the King of England. Some officials shudder at their own visions of enormous crowds sir- rounding the two visiting celebrities. They have nightmares of such struc- lures as Tri-Borough Bridge and Norris Dam being pushed over il, the crush.
 Labor Not Impressed
 American labor, whose problems the Duke will Study-according to advance announcement, has yet ex- tended welcoming arms. Inquiry at o. I. o. and A. P. of I. reveals that no ducal appointments have been made with John Lewis or William Green. Privately, labor leaders in- dicate that they note 0 more than faint aroma of fascisin In the vicin- ity of the Duke, that his tour in Germany does not set so well with them and that the fact Edward will be under the wing of Bedaux falls to convince them that his tour will be a great blessing to labor. Since there's a liberal, pro-labor govert1- ment here this attitude is more or less reflected in other quarters.
 One reason . large advertis.
 ing publicity firm has been en- gagged to handle press relations for the Duke and Duchess is that Edward has been dissatis-
 fled with his previous publicity in this country. Recent news
 paper articles appearing in
 Washington and New York indi-
 cate that this sad condition may
 not be improved.
 Probably 1t isn't true that Wind' sor will try to sell business men the Bedaux industrial efficiency scheme. which organized labor detests, and time clocks for President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines, who recently mastered the Hitler salute and wac decorated by the Fuehrer. But that's been widely reported. Bedaux Is reported to admire fascism no end, and the Bedaux system has been described in an A. P. of L. report as "a method of forcing the last ounce of effort out of workers at the smallest cost in wages"
 Possibly all this will be forgot ten in a general wave of excitement when the Duke and Duchess land. Some insiders are convinced that the British government will decide to have its embassy here welcome Edward and use him as an instru. ment for building up goodwill in khia nntinkrv