The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-26


 bitter disappointment.
 The reaction was just the op- posite, however, among some of MT. Hull's career boys. For in the State Department there exists a secret, but very definite split not unlike that which finally blew the lid off the British cabinet.
 Secretary Hull. personally, be- lieves with Anthony Eden that the dictators of the world cannot be permitted to walk off with every thing they demand. If the de- mocracies yield now. he feels, the greater will be the momentum of their retreat later.
 Some of the career boys, on the other hand (such as Hugh Wilson, ambassador to Ger many), argue that. it is best to let Japan spread out in China, Hitler in Southern Europe. and Mussolini in North Africa, since this Is the best means not only of avoiding war, but of sup pressing Bolshevism.
 This is very much the same thesis is Prime Minister Chamber lain's.
 What worries MT. Hull most (also both the President and the Navy) is Chamberlain'S anti American, pro-Japanese attitude. Eden was just the opposite.
 Chamberlain represents the old Tory group which still leans toward the old Anglo Japanese Alliance and believed Britain made a mistake when the United States persuaded her to relinquish it at the Washing ton Arms Conference.
 Eden also favored closer ties with the United States all along the line, including the trade treaty now being negotiated. Chamberlain, on the other hand. held out for months against any trade pact with the U. s. A.
 U. S. Accord Broken
 One line in Eden's resignation speech attracted particular State Department attention. After re- ferring to the many differences between him and Chamberlain, Eden said:
 within the last few weeks, upon one of the most important decisions of foreign policy which did not concern Italy at all, the difference was fundamental"
 Officials here believe the retir- ing foreign minister was referring to the fact that Chamberlain had patched up a separate deal with the Japanese to protect Britain's great sphere of influence around Hongkong. In doing this he junked an informal agreement with the United States that in the Far East the two countries should pull together.
 Eden opposed the separate deal with the Japanese on the ground that it destroyed a carefully nur- tured Anglo-American under standing.
 American Wives
 State Department advisers who are ill the Hull group report that most of the men around Cham berlain, following Eden's exit, are anti-American and pro-Japanese.
 Some, such as R. E. Craggie, British ambassador to Japan, are so pro-Japanese that during the last London naval negotiations, American officials finally decided it was wiser not to discuss with Craggie certain matters which they did not want to get back to the Japanese.
 Mrs. Craggie, an American, daughter of the late Pleasant Sto- wall, editor of The Savannah, Ga, Press and Woodrow Wilson's min- iSter to Switzerland, is amlost as anti-American as her husband.
 Seated beside Admiral William Standley, then chief of naval op- erations, during the last London naval negotiations, she drawled: Admiral, I really can't under stand your countrymen.
 That" replied the admiral, "is the first time I ever heard 8 remark like that from a girl from Georgia"
 Long Cabinet Feud
 Inside reports received here are that the Eden Chamberlain row has been brewing for a long time and that the only thing prevent ing the break months before was Eden's tremendous political fol- lowing. To most of the eleven million Britons who voted to sus- tain the League of Nations is viscount Cecil's poll, he is the na- tion's No. l hero.
 One early sign of crack-up came with the appointment of Neville Henderson as British Ambassador to Germany. Eden opposed him, said he was too pro-Nazi. But Chamberlain ap-