The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

what the wives of importan
 In Great Britain it is now dis closed that Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of the Prime Minister, was a vital factor behind the split in the British Cabinet.
 Mrs. Chamberlain is 8 great personal friend of MussOlini, calls him BenitO, was in Rome all during the Cabinet crisis, and unofficially is carrying on negotiations for 3 new AnglO- Italian agreement for her hus- band.
 Official reports arriving here show that the British Foreign Off, flee has no idea what conversa- tions have been taking place be- tween Mrs. Chamberlain and Ben- ito, and that the Earl of Perth, British Ambassador to Italy, is now returning to London in order to find out what all the shooting is about.
 No wonder Anthony Eden re- signed as Foreign Minister. McNutt's Wife
 Inside story now going the rounds regarding the presidential boom of Paul V. McNutt is that his, the former Kathleen Timolat of San Antonio, is one of the chief backstage dynamos.
 While "The Man from ManiIa", as he is now called in Washington, has a long list of boosters, Mrs. McNutt is given credit by his close friends for being the most potent and important.
 To Mrs. McNutt is attributed the remark: When Paul gets in the White House he will be the handsomest man ever to be President of the United States"
 NOTE-Ladies who attended last weeks hectic Hoosier recep- tion were inclined to agree with Mrs. McNutt. In fact, Evelyn Pey- ton Gordon, sprightly social col- umnist, came out with the advice, eff MT. McNutt would kiss the ladies instead of the babies, he'd be as good as elected"
 Ladies' Fingers
 Other ladies now pushing the world around according to their fancy include Mrs. Herebrt Leh- man, whose ambition that Cover nor Lehman some day may sit in the White House is one of the big gest reasons why her husband probably will run for a third term as Governor of New York.
 Then there is Mrs. Joe Davies, the former Marjorie Post Hutton, who didn't like high society among the Communists, so her husband quit as Ambassador to Russia and has now pushed Hugh Gibson out of his job as Ambassa- dor to Belgium.
 And it was Mrs. Gibson, in turn, who didn't like Hugh's job as Am bassador to Brazil and helped push him into the Embassy in Belgium.
 Feminine Hand
 Another feminine hand was mixed up in the yarn about the demotion of Lieutenant Colonel Davenport Johnson for having piloted High Commissioner Mo- Mutt from San Francisco to Den yer.
 Newspapers reported that John son was transferred from the the choice job of commandant of Hamilton Field, San Francisco, to the Chanute Flying School at Rantoul, H., because he had flown McNutt without permission, and because the political powers in Washington did not ike McNutt.
 Inside story, however, is that JOhnsOn's transfer to Rantoul, H., had been ordered two weeks before McNutt arrived in the U. s. A. It was ordered because Colonel F. Curry was through serving with the General Staff in Washington, was looking for a good berth, and picked HamiI- ton Field for himself. This is one of the choicest air posts in the country, and since Curry is full colonel near the top of the list, and Johnson is lieutenant colonel much lower on the list, he was transferred to Rantoul, III.
 Commissioner McNutt had ab- solutely nothing to do with it. Real fact was that the temporary war buildings at Ratoul have leaky roofs, and are otherwise unattractive. So Mrs. Davenport Johnson didn't want to leave San Francisco.
 Thus mysteriously leaked out a report that the air junket with the Man from Manila was to. blame. Presumably 1t was hoped that McNutt's political influence OFF THE RECORD