The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

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 The State Department is now conducting a confidential survey which shows that Mussolini is arming at least three Latin Ameri- can countries.
 In Nicaragua, the Italian gov- ernment has just delivered 500 tons of munitions, left over from the Ethiopian war. They are sold on dirt cheap terms, but even so, it is doubtful that Nicaragua will be able to pay for them.
 Nicaragua, it will be recalled, has given the United States 99-year lease for the cOnstruc- ton of a canal parallelling the Panama canal also leases on certain islands and on the Gulf of FOnSeca as naval bases. Re- gently, however, the Nicaraguan government has become tOtal- tarian and not particularly friendly to the United States.
 In Ecuador, the Italian gov- ernment has completed another large sale of arms. Also in Para quay, where the United Sttaes is attempting to negotiate peace in the Chaco, Italy has sold large consignment of secondhand mil- tary planes.
 NOTE-Should these countries default on their payments, next step would be for Mussolini to demand oil or mineral conces- sions. Fascist-Nazi tactics in South America are reported to be to get colonies through economic penetration, without fighting for them.
 Soviet Ambassador
 The British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, P. C., G. c. M. G., K. c. B., and c. V. O., is tall, perfectly groomed, has an Ox- ford accent, is the son of the 18th Earl of Crawford, is a firm believer in the capitalist system. The Soviet Ambassador, Conn., rade Alexander Troyanovsky, is short, dark-skinned, speaks hesi- tating English, twice has been exiled to Siberia, is hard-riding ex-cavalry officer, is firm be- iever in communist government.
 Yet the two men have a con- mon bond.
 This came out the other day when the social secretary of the Soviet Embassy was making up list for one of its famed recep- tions and included the names of two society columnists.
 "No," said Ambassador Troy anovsky, q will not have them in my house."
 'What they wrote about you was not so bad," demonstrated his secretary.
 That's not the reason. It's what they wrote about my col- league, Sir Ronald Lindsay. They were most unkind to him. They said he went to sleep while talking to people. That is not true. Sir Ronald is a little deaf, and when he cannot hear, he closes his eyes to con- centrate. He does not go to sleep.
 "Sir Ronald is a very able diplomat and an old friend of mine. No one who criticizes him will come to my house."
 Political Gratitude
 Senator Byrnes' chairmanship of the Senate unemployment in- veStjgation has caused a lot of his Democratic colleagues to won- der whether there is such thing as personal gratitude.
 Behind this is the fact that the Senator is now knifing his old friend in the White House, who spent around $30,000.000 in South Carolina to keep Jimmy in the Senate.
 To get the full picture, re- member that for about four years Jimmy Byrnes was known as the Presidents messenger boy. Whenever there was tight jam in Congress, it was Jimmy who carried the message up Pennsylvania Avenue and told the boys what to do.
 Jimmy gloried in the glamour of it. And the President seemed to like Jimmy, for when there was danger of his defeat, Roosevelt actually went down to South Car olina and made speech, in ad- dition to granting two large PWA power projects, to aid Jimmy with his constituents.
 But now that the Senator from South Carolina is safe ly reelected, he has been bat ting against the President on several important issues, par ticularly that of unemployment relief.
 Byrnes' colleagues claim that in