The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-20

Washington, Jan. 20-The glee of Congressman Andrew J. May of Kentucky, at his attainment of the chairmanship of the house Military affairs committee, is matched in its intensity only by the pain which his elevation inflicts upon friends of IVA.
 May is the TWAS most vocal enemy in the house, and the miIi- tary affairs committee is the group through which all legisla- tiOn bearing on IVA must clear before reaching the house floor. His efforts against IVA admins tration, methods and purposes have been happily received by public utility and coal lobbyists.
 A former president of Kentucky coal company, May frankly has ad- mitted that he is motivated by competition which the IVA hydro electric power developments offer to steam power plants. The steam power plants are large consumers of coal.
 Some hot in-fighting on the conservative military affairs conn mittee over IVA is indicated, with Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas leading the battle for DVA. A current issue being fought out between Mays resolution to inves- tigate IVA and the Norris Mayer ioIr v-ocnl.vtSnrN nuhinEn fa Sv1c vision for inquiry into anti-TVA activities of private power com- panies.
 May brands the latter resolution "red herring" because it would practically assure appointment o1 someone other than himself as chairman of the Investigating group Diplomatic Double-Cr
 William E. Dodd, retiring ambas- sador to Berlin, has been learning how completely he was double crossed during his diplomatic ser vice by a powerful clique in the state department which is accused of being "pro-fascist.'
 Dodd had the interesting and perhaps unique experience of find ing some of his confidential dip lomatic- pouch reports to Secretary Hull and the president were being leaked to outsiders.
 He got so that he wrote his most confidential reports in his own hand writing, but he found that even these were not safe from publicity Although Dodd commonly was un- derstood to be mortified by Nazi methods, these revelations made his position not only embarrassing but practically impossible.
 Such officials as Undersecre- tary of State Sumner Welles, Chief Jay Pirrepont Moffet of the European affairs division, political relations Adviser James Clement Dunn and Hugh Wilson who succeeds Dodds as ambassador were considerably less than sym pathetic toward Dodd's pro-demo- cratic, anti-fascist feelings. Roose- welt and Hull, however, were un- willing to repudiate DOdd and kept him at Berlin long after he was persona non grata to Hitler.
 Late last year Dodd was tole to stay in Berlin until March Then he received hurry home cablegram ostensibly from Hull who told him after his return that he knew nothing of the message He also finds that certain impor- tant officials advised prominent Americans who were about to visit Germany to "stay away from Dodd."
 Language and Grammar
 The Federal Communications Commission, in its letter i'm pugning the purity of Mae Vests language in a radio broadcast, it. self fell short of the highest stand ards of lingual purity.
 ". if the present system o1 licensing private agencies to broadcast is to ultimately win the favor and approval of the Amer ican public" said the EGG at one point, completely disregarding the almost famous rule which says you mustn't split an infinitive.