The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-03

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They originated when friends of
the ex-President began flooding
the White House, Red Cross, and
Jewish refugee committees with
suggestions urging that Hoover
head a new international relief
set up.
Those close to the White House
had no idea that Roosevelt would
respond, since there has been no
love lost between the President and
the ex-President. Advisers were
amazed, however, when Roosevelt
took the idea under serious con-
sheraton.
He suggested, in turn, that Mr..
Hoover outline a definite plan. A
great many ideas for war relief
have flooded Washington with
nothing concrete about them except
that Mr.. Hoover should take over
the reins. None of them has been
very practical, partly because only
one country, Poland, is suffering
and it is impossible geographically
to reach it.
Those around the White House
could not be sure whether the
President was passing the buck
back to Hoover, or whether he
welcomed the idea of securing
services. Anyway that was
what he did.
MOTEL will be recalled that
when the United States entered
the World War, ex-President Theo-
dore Roosevelt offered his services
to the United States to head an
immediate military expedition to
France. Woodrow Wilson, whose
relations with T. r. were compar-
able to those between F. D. R.
and Hoover, was much embarrassed
and vetoed Teddy's offer.
HOOVER VS.. MOLEY
1t is not supposed to be known,
but when Professor Moley's articles
highly critical of Roosevelt, first
appeared in The Saturday Eve
ming Post, Herbert Hoover sent
word that he hoped the President
would answer them.
Hoover asserted that in the part
of the articles pertaining to him
Hoover, Moley had made % griev-
GUS errors, and that he would like
to make public statement to
that effect.
Roosevelt sent word back that
he didn't think it was a good idea
to dignity the articles with a re-
ply. He said that Moley was fond
of quoting Elizabethan poets, but
that there was one quotation
which Moley did not use. This
was:
"Kings may love treason, but
the traitor hate"
LINDBERGH'S DATA
Colonel Lindbergh gave some
startling information regarding
Germany's air force to the little
group of Senators with whom he
lunched the other day. Among
things, he told them that Ger
many was about to launch a new
type of bombing plane which could
remain in the air for 48 hours.
and which would be capable of
flying across the Atlantic and
back.
German factories have been
perfecting this bomber ever since
May and will have it in the air
shortly. 1t is intended, not for
raids across the Atlantic, but raids
against shipping over the Atlantic.
In other words, these new
German bombers would be able
to swing far out beyond Ireland
along the routes of transatlan-
tic steamers and remain in the
air for two days scouting for
ships. If the bombers are all
that Lindbergh expects them to
be. they should put terrific
crimp in British shipping.
Another startling piece of infor-
nation which Lindbergh dropped
at the private senatorial lunch
was that Germany was develop,
ing pursuit plane capable of
reaching 500 miles an hour. This
should be able to chase any Allied
plane out of the skies.
EUROPEAN AIR STRENGTH
Lindbergh also discussed at
length the respective strength of
the European air fleets. The Rus
sian he brushed aside as not
worth bothering bout. Russia, he
said, is turning out a lot of planes.
but of poor quality.
German aviation, Lindbergh
said, Is now more than twice as
strong as France and England
combined. The French are slow