The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

celVed him and was most cordial. Franco arranged for him to visit Spain's new war museum at San Sebastian Tt is an anus ing exhibit,' said our column filler, it displays tanks, cannon, guns, rifles and other war necessities used by the LoyalistS. Every piece is marked with a placard- showing the name of the nation that sold it to the Reds !. One American gun company actually sold them rifles manufactured in 186O-when the. Civil War over here began! It seems thatt he merchants of death (ah, there, George SeldeslD every where were ready to peddle their guns to the Communists--for cash Two of the biggest salesmen to the Reds were Germany and Italy!"
 Speaking of the feeling between some Europeans, when the speedier Normandie passed the Brennan out at sea Monday morning (both liners heading for Manhattan) all the passengers on the Normandie, many of them French, lined the deck rails and hooted and booed and jeered the Nazi ship The Normandie brought a woman doctor (promised to withhold her name) who told listeners that she recently attended Gandhi, who is weary of going hungry-and wants to live lot longer" X. Another voyager told us that Ambassador Kennedy had remarked to intimates in London: 'I'd rather have ten American news papermen over here helping me than the entire State Department" i. -. Some of us think Kennedy is worth twenty neWspapermen After denying for two years that they had sent troops to Spain, Ger many and Italy now officially brag how helpful their troops were Liars by their own decree!
 It seems that pr. Schuschnigg was recently removed from the Hotel Metropole (Vienna Gestapo head quarters) and the last mention of him was in Hitler's own newspaper in Berlin. The Volkischer Boebach- ter of May 11th. It says: Herr Schuschnigg has tried to do this under the protection of the British and French sun of grace. Herr Benes has also done it strength ened by the benevolence of London and Paris. Herr Schuschnigg's whereabouts today are unknown. Herr Benes is rector of an Ameri- can university" That statement implies that all intentions of bring ing the former Austrian boss to trial have been abandoned. None of his friends has received any word from him.
 "The Kent Messenger" we are told, has circulation in England that isn't very much. Perhaps 10,- 900 or less That is why, no doubt, the reporter it assigned to cover Their Majesties' trip to Amer ica, was treated shabbily by the of- ficials in charge of the Royal Train :. The reporter couldn't get any credentials, cards, invites or any courtesy whatever. He managed to be wherever the royal guests went. at any rate And the other re- porters helped him out by giving him parts of their stories, etc .. It remained for him to get the biggest scoop" of the entire trip, however At Sudbury, Ontario, when George and Elizabeth went down 240 feet into that nickel mine, none of the press was allowed into that mine "The Kent MeSsen- ger," who had no armband, and wasn't recognized, simply followed the party down! And got the big exclusive story! He was so grateful to the reporters who al- ways helped him-that he shared his scoop" with them all.
 Yesterdays New York papers re- lated how the Nazi press in Ger many belittled the royal visit to the United States "The report. ers," shouted Goebbels' parrots, "who wrote the most ecstatic ac- counts in New York were the Jewish newspapermen!" ;. By golly, come to think of it, they are right The most enthusiastic stories were written by such "Mefoofsky's" as the Herald Trib's Joe Driscollsky; The Evening Posts Dixie Tigheovitch; the Daily Mirrors Inez Robinsky; the same gaZette's Damon Rum yonoff; the Daily News George Dix onevsky; the Times Kathleen Mo- Laughlinuv; the Mirrors Voltaire yeenchill and, of course. the World Telly's Mrs. Franklin D. Rosenfelt.