The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-27

President has offered him u
 Senate leaders have told Pope they expect no difficulty in con- flrming him. Pope sounded out some of his colleagues on this point because the legality of Arr thur E. Morgan's custer is still pending in the courts. Morgan claims his dismissal was illegal. and no hearing has yet been held on his appeal.
 Originally Roosevelt did not
 intend to fill Morgan's place
 until the court action had been disposed of. But the serious ill- ness of Commissioner David Lilienthal has thrust the whole
 burden of managing the great power project on Acting Chair
 man Harcourt Morgan, who asked the President to appoint a third commissioner to help out.
 NOTE-Pope's appointment will not be announced until the new session convenes, because of the law barring the appointment of a Congressman to a job created during his term of office.
 Nazi Rc.uff
 The State Department rebuff to Germany over hard-hitting Har- old Ickes' speech against the Nazis was lot more significant than most people realized. Both the President and the State De- partment knew in advance what was coming from Germany and deliberately planned to step on 1t.
 To get the full picture it is im- portant to know that the State Department casts a watchful eye over most speeches of cabinet of1- cers dealing with foreign affairs. Once before, when Ickes was making a transatlantic broadcast to Great Britain, the State De- partment had a lot to say about 1t and tried to get him to change the text. Also, cabinet members submit advance copies of their speeches to the White House.
 In this case, the State De- partment had nothing to do
 with writing the text of Ickes'
 anti-Nazi speech in Cleveland,
 or with inspiring him to make.
 }t. But it did nothing to stop
 him.
 After the speech was delivered, State Department officials knew that protest was sure to come from Hitler. It always has come in the past, despite the fact that the Hitler-controlled press has unleashed almost unprintable re- marks about the Government of the United States.
 So this time usually sedate
 Sumner Welles, acting secretary
 of state, made sure he had
 White House support. waited for
 the inevitable German protest,
 then took the gloves off.
 NOTE One telltale indication that Roosevelt knew exactly what Welles was doing was the acting secretary's reference to Woodrow Wilson. Welles told the German charge d'Affairs that Germany's castigation of Wilson was partic- larly distasteful in this country. Actually the castigation was made by Hitler himself in his speech during the Czech crisis, remark. which particularly provoke Roosevelt. He commented on it privately and with considerable emphasis at the time.
 War Inc .lable
 Behind all this was not mere pique at the Nazis. It was a delib- erately planned move to pound home upon Hitler and his leaders the sentiment of the United States toward Germany.
 And behind this, in turn, was the conviction, reported here by all U. s. ambassadors, that war is inevitable next spring unless Hitler comes to his senses.
 One thing which may bring him to his senses, it is hoped, is reali- zation by other Nazi leaders that Germany has built up a powerful potential enemy in the United States.
 Capital Chaff
 All tickets to the Press Club luncheon for Anthony Eden were sold within an hour. There were HOO applications, some being phoned from as far as California. !. Star witness before the IVA investigating committee so far has been J. A. Krug, 31-year- -old chief of the power planning division. He knew all the ansW CTS; even Republican members paid him tribute. Friends of the late Paul Y. Anderson, crusading Washington correspondent, have