The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-21

N.y J
 For seldom has a situation been so badly gauged as the events which have tumbled over each other during the past two weeks to place Europe at the brink of war.
 British diplomats - except for Eden-have been buffaloed, out guessed and hoodwinked all along the line, while American diplo- mats, taking their cues from the British, have watched the fracas with the dazed understanding of babes-in-the-wood.
 The Spanish war was mis- calculated from the day it opened. State Department career men, openly sympathetic with Franco, went to unprecedented lengths to prevent American supplies or even doctors or nurses from reaching the Span ish Government.
 For months career men refused to admit that Germany and Italy were behind Franco; even today they naively disbelieve that Mus solini has any ambitions in Spain.
 This also has been the hope and policy of the British, who are chiefly interested in protecting British iron mines and factories in the Basque region. Franco, they thought could be bought, whereas British capital could not control a Socialist Spanish government. Reverse English
 When the insurgents win in Spain, however, it will not be Franco whom the British will have to buy, but Benito Musso- lini-whose price is high.
 Spain once was 8 part of the Roman Empire. If you want the key to Mussolini's foreign policy, just glance at the giant maps which he has painted on the sides of his new buildings in Rome, showing the Italy of today along side the Rome of yesterday, with 8 third map showing how he is building the Roman Empire up again.
 MUSSOLINI ALREADY HAS LAID CAREFUL PLANS TO AN- MEX SPAIN.
 He figures that about one mill lion civilians have been killed in Spain since the fighting began especially doctors, lawyers and others in professional occupations. After Franco's victory, therefore, Mussolini will make the magnani- nous gesture of sending a million of his over-bulging population to help reconstruct Spain. They will never come back. They will re- main to build 8 new Roman Em- pire on the ashes of the old.
 British and American diplo- mats also guessed wrong on the deal between Hitler and MussO- lini, thought the two dictators could be wedged apart. Only re- gently did BAFO wake up to the fact that Hitler had prom ised to pull Italian chestnuts cut of the Spanish fire, in pay ment for which MussoIini looked the other way while Hitler con- quered Austria.
 Of course, British and American diplomats, being gentlemen, be- lieved Mussolini when he said one thing, but did the other. For 8 long time they have continued to believe him even when the opposite facts stared them in the face.
 All of which goes to prove that in these stream-lined cutthroat days of gangster diplomacy, the diplomatic game should not be played by gentlemen.
 Richard Whitney
 Shortly after Richard Whitney, ex-President and Governor of the New York Stock Exchange, tripped over the charge of taking funds out of his wife's and sister-in- laws trust fund, a page boy in the Exchange put a sign in the cloak-room whcih read:
 Watch your hat and coat. Governors use these hooks" Byrd of Another Feather
 Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, bitter opponent of the Presidents reorganization bill, was once bird of another feather on the same question of reorgani- zation.
 One of the reasons Virginians are proud of Harry is because as Governor he put through a sweep ing reorganization, which resulted in simplification, economy and incidentally-in strengthening the hand of the Governor.
 Byrds reorganization embodied most of the same principles which he now opposes giving Roosevelt. In fact the same man, Luther Gulick, who authored Roosevelt,s