The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-21

Cd11O4A0UCS AAcSA VI 4AAVV~A~6 Robert H. Jackson.
 Behind this is one of the most interesting political stories in the country involving a woman, Tammany Hall, Southern Demo- cratS, and more than anything else, the fact that the governor ship of New York is the best springboard to the White House.
 The woman in the case is Mrs. Lehman, the former Edith Ats chul, whose big banker brother is head of Lazard Freres and an important figure in the stock market.
 Mrs. Lehman has two dOmin- ating desires in her life. One is to oppose, undermine and sub- due the incumbent of the White House; the other is to put her own husband in that coveted spot.
 Mrs. Lehman always has felt that Roosevelt used her husband as 8 stepping -Stone to the Presi- dency, and it was partly her influ- ence which caused the governor to come out against the Supreme Court reform plan last summer. Should Herbert be in the New York governors mansion in 1940, she figures, it is not impossible that the Democratic party, look ing around for good compromise candidate, might select her hus- band despite his Jewish faith. Motley Allies
 To Mrs. Lehman's support have rushed several unexpected allies. One is Tammany, which has no love for Lehman and against which Lehman has battled.
 Another is the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. now re- ferred to as the Garner group. Its members hate Tammany, almost bolted to Herbert Roover because of Al Smiths Tammany connec- tion. But even more they hate Bob Jackson and the threat of an- other New Dealer in the White House.
 For, Bob Jackson in the gover- nor's chair in Albany would be up one important rung of the ladder to the Presidential nomination.
 Thus are allied Lehman, plus Tammany which hates Lehman, plus the Southern Democrats who hate Tammany-all for the duration of the Bob Jackson war.
 And ben1nd them is every hold ing company, bank and big busi- ness interest in New York which puts a shaking hand to the radio dial after Bob Jackson finished his trust-busting speeches.
 Bronx Cheer
 Ed Flynn, Democratic leader of the Bronx, New York. was asked what he thought of Bob Jackson's radio speech attacking monopolies.
 "Worst amateur hour I ever listened to-" he replied.
 Failing" La Guardia
 For some time the Mayor of New York city didn't know it. but the New York police had plain clothes men "tailing" him. Reason was that La Guardia had received some threats against his life and the police department wanted to take every precaution.
 When La Guardia discovered this, however, he was furious. He called in the two detectives and gave them severe grilling to see whether they actually had been following him. To his astoniSh- ment they told him almost every thing he had done that day. Finally he said:
 And where did I go at eight o'clock last night?"
 This time the detectives said they didn't know.
 T was in the front row of the orchestra" stormed La Guardia, and suppose you were those two guys under the chair"
 La Guardia immediately ordered the police department to cease shadowing him. He probably won't know it until he reads this, but the meticulous police have rented an apartment opposite the Mayors house and have men posted there in relays to watch everyone who goes in or out of his door.
 Hitler's Strategy
 Adolf Hitler may have the en- mity of Germany's old-line mili- tary leaders. but he is still Europe's premier snowman strategist. As proof, look over the way he bulls up his climaXes.
 FIRST he selects as head of his army, General Wilhelm Keitel, who in military parlance was commander of pots and pans." In other words he heads the Quarter master Corps, is a good yes-man, and unlike his bunker predecessors can easily be dominated.
 SECOND, Hitler mobilizes part of the army, under its new com-