The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

speech blasting Hitler, the
 The speech had gone over to the White House some days be- fore and come back with an OK. It also had gone to the State Department, which at first evinced no opposition.
 Tien just day before Ickes left for Chicago to deliver it, Un- dersecretary of State Welles came over to the Interior Department and discreetly suggested that MT. Ickes tone it down. One passage which was objected to inferentially referred to Hitler as despot.
 Ickes accepted some of the suggestions but did not omit his indirect reference to Hitler as a despot.
 NOTE-In the bosom of his of ficial family, Cordell Hull's pro- verbal mild manner disappears when he talks about his Cabinet colleague, Harold Ickes. The Sec retary of the Interior first got un- der Hulls skin when he delivered 8 transatlantic radio address on foreign affairs at the invitation of the British.
 More recently the two have been on the outs over the ship ment of helium to Germany, Ickes opposing the sale, Hull favoring it. Ickes has received thousands Hf 1nff arc c,,nrorfinn hin,
 Japanese Unpopularity
 Japanese prestige in Washing ton has declined to such extent that for the first time in many years, no photographs were taken of the Japanese ambassador, with his family in native attire, be- heath the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin.
 Representative of neWsreel contacted attaches at the Japan csc embassy, and was told it was considered inadvisable to make the pictures because of possible international complications" =.
 Madame Saito and the two chil- dren did pay an unannounced visit to the Department of Agri- cultures Amaryllis Show and were pointed out to photographers by an official of the Department in charge of the exhibition. Said the blase lensman:
 "Aw, what's the use of shoot ing them; nObOdy'll print it." Jewish Migration
 Secretary Hull's proposal to help care for NaZi-Fascist refugees has been welcomed courteously but with private skepticism by Latin American diplomats. Since South America represents the chief po- tential immigration haven, their reaction is important.
 Forty years ago, Latin Ameri- can diplomats point out, Baron Hirsch financed extensive Jew ish migration to Canada and Argentina. However, it did not work out. Jewish immigrants, it was found, were not tempera- mentally suited to agriculture, remained on the land only the length of time required in their contracts, then moved to the cities.
 Also James G. Mcdonald, League of Nation High Commis- sioner for Refugees, toured all through South America in 1885 trying to arrange openings for im- migrants, but with little success.
 Most Latin American govern ments have accepted Secretary Huil's invitation in deference to the good neighbor policy, but there is little confidence in the proposi- tion.
 Reconstruction Bill
 Conversation overheard in one of the long queues of sightseers waiting to get into the senate galleries the day the chamber voted on the Government Reor- ganization Bill:
 First Visitcr: "Whats this thing they are going to decide today?"
 Second Visitor: "The recon struction bill-you know, to re- construct the Democratic party Government Reorganization
 If you clear away all the smoke of the reorganization battle and take calm view of the scene, there is just one thing behind all the turmoil: the drive to defeat Roosevelt on every issue he sends to Congress.
 This has become the mania of a growing group in both Houses. The strategy is very simple; name ly, knock the President on the head every time he dares make move on Capitol Hill.
 This was one of the big factors in the ageS-and-hourS defeat. in the attack on IVA, and in the present fight against the Re- organization Bill.
 The bill has now been stripped of SO much power that it is a bare skeleton of it's former self, 0rSr> -WSuur< nD~0nFN