The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-29

day, attended by about thi
 The men represented a cross section of New Deal officials, con- gressmen and journalists, while the women were Mrs. Ogden Reid, wife of the publisher of The New York Herald Tribune; Miss Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation; and Dorothy Detzer, secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
 Ex-Cossack Officer Troyanov- sky, now Soviet ambassador, probably knows how to get . cross section of American opinion better than any other
 envoy in the capital Shortly after dinner, he announced that he had been trying to find out what was meant by American isolation" and whether or not the United States really could stay neutral. Thereupon he turned the party over to Freda Kirchwe and asked her to con- duct a Town Meeting discus sion.
 Miss KirschWey, in turn, called upon Dorothy Detzer as the "best exponent of pacifism," and Miss Detzer, who has influenced many votes on Capitol Hill, expressed the opinion that the United States was unique both in being sep arated from the rest of the world and having more sanity than the rest of the world.
 Pool of Sanity
 Her exposition was rather long, and at one point she said:
 Ut seems to me that we have created pool of sanity over here, something very important and precious that we must preserve and keep for ourselves"
 ''You don't believe this is some- thing which Great Britain shares with you?" interrupted the boom- ing voice of Sir Willmott Lewis, ace correspondent of The Lon- don Times.
 Absolutely not" whipped back Miss Detzer. You British have been responsible for most of the tragedy of Europe and you can take the consequences. It was you who caused this march of Hitlerism, this catas- trophe in Spain. It was you who blessed Mussolini. It is you who have nurtured and encOur- aged every dictator who has pushed his head up in Europe, and the sooner this system which the so-ca1led British ruling class has created falls, the better.
 "And," continued the irate lady, scarcely pausing for breath, you are one of those who would have this country follow you into the maelstrom. And behind you I see one of your staunch support ers."
 "You don't mean me, do you?" queried Felix Morley, editor of the Washington Post.
 "Yes, I mean you," replied Miss Detzer, laughing despite her in- dignation at the way Morley peeked out from behind Sir Will mott.
 Russia Plus U. S.
 And so on, far into the night the only guest not participating in the argument being Mrs. Og- den Reid, Jerome Frank, Securi- ties and Exchange Commissioner, engaged in a debate with ponti- fical Raymond Leslie Buell., head of the Foreign Policy Association, while Kenneth Durant, of the Tass News Agency. defended the Soviet system.
 Only participants who seemed in complete agreement were Am bassador Troyanovsky and Con- gressman Maury Maverick of Texas faced the same potential enemy in the Far East. Before the evening was over, they were both moving troops.
 But" believed Congressman Maverick, eff we have this al- liance, how do we know that you won't shoot all our gen. erals?"
 NOTE-What the ambassador reported to Moscow regarding the problem of American isolation is not known, but he certainly got an earful on every phase of 1t. Fascist Clique
 For several days prior to the meeting between Premier Dala- dier and Prime Minister Cham berlain, now taking place in Lon- don, the French were privately trying to get some public indica- tion that the pro-Chamberlain clique in the U. s. Department was not really representative of the American public.
 Reason for French concern is that Roosevelt's public statement blessing the Mussolir.-Ch OrC TIyC DCCODN