The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20

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 While the Nine Power delegates were rowing over what they could or could not do to block Japanese aggression in China, Japanese Ambassador Saito in Washington sent the Japanese ambassador in Belgium a cable summarizing his views on the Roosevelt Adminis- tratiol,s iinpotency. etf
 He stated categorlcally that it could do nothing. Roosevelt was expressed In domestic affairs, he said. Congress was opposed to Intervention in the Far East, and finally the State Depart mcnt differed with the Ameri- can delegation at Brussels and
 would not let Norman Davis move. A~,J.
 IL was a very neatly worded message and the Japanese am. bassador in Belgium promptly put 1t in good English, and handed 1t to his ally, the Italian ambassador. Then the Italians slipped 1t to the press. This cut the ground from under Arlbassa- dor Norman Davis. It made him appear to be @ delegate without a government. ..
 Shortly thereafter the Brussels conference folded its wings and MT. Davis went home.
 Far Eastern Frustration
 What reports Ambassador saito is sending back to his government now, are not known. But having lived in this country 17 years and being Q very shrewd observer, he Is probably diagnosing the situa- ton better than the administra. ton itself. .
 Most significant is that Saito cabled that the State Department was at cross-purposes with the American delegation in Brussels. This was not supposed to be known by anyone, let alone the Japanese ambassador, but 1t waS absolutely true.
 And 1t is extremely important because it illustrates the way Roosevelt has marched up the hill in foreign affairs and then
 marched down again. Some of his close friends have been do. Ing . lot of headShaklng over it.
 They say 1t is either because he has been sabotaged by the career boys, or Is trying to keep his fingers on too many things at once. thyt
 At Chicago last October, they point out, the President marched up the. hill with his quarantine" speech against ati aggressor. Then In his flreside chat he marched down again.
 Tut Tut Japan"
 Then before the Brussels con- ference he gave Norman Davis ' fighting pep talk at Hyde Park, virtually advising him to go the limit in censuring Japan. But after Davis arrived in Brussels, the State Department tied his hands. When he cabled back the draft of the first speech he pro- posed making, the' State Depart- r1ent threw 1t in the scrap basket, cabling back Q new text written by Hugh Wilson and the career chorus.
 Net effect of this speech was to say: Tut tut, Japan, put out your wrist.
 Every time Davis raised his hand at Brussels he was stysnied by the boys back home = which was completely out of line with Roosevelt's pep talk to the Ameri- can delegation before it sailed.
 Now that the United States has turned the other cheek at Brussels, Roosevelt has sounded the belllgerent note again tho Japanese In the Yangtse.
 NOTE--Ccrdell Hull and Nor. man Davis, both from Tennessee, both old friends have been getting together the last few days to see who sabotaged whoni--and why. Last Laugh
 Leading the fight against the wage-hour measure, Representa-. tive Martin Dies of Texas deliv. cred q violently denunciatory speech which was loudly cheered by Southern Democrats in the House. ..
 Dies, aglow over his ovation. encountered Speaker Bankhead of Alabama standing quietly in the rear of the chamber. "Weil, Mir. Speaker" he crowed. "lt looks like we've got the bill on the run."
 ''I should say, Msrtin." cor- rected Bankhea6, "that it looks like you have the applause and