The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-12

So he put the Sudetenland pot on the back of the stove to sim mer. Later, when there had been enough Nazi riots in the Sudeten- land and when the French and British people were sufficiently fed up with the whole business, he brought the pot to the front of the stove and to a quick boil.
 Today Hitler is following exactly the same formula in Danzig. When Danzig first became an issue, Chamberlain issued belligerent statements in the House of Com mons announcing that Britain would fight. Roosevelt also ad- dressed peace messages to Hitler and Il Duce which put them on the spot.
 But Hitler spared for time, put the Danzig question on the back of the stove to simmer.
 And today, the British are ad- vising the Poles to compromise instead of going to war; exactly the same advice they gave the CzechS last october.
 So you can mark it down as certain that Hitler is sure to take Danzig. The exact date is the only thing which remains uncertain.
 FINISH POLAND
 When that time comes Hitler will also take the proposed corri- dor or roadway across the Polish Corridor to East Prussia, the sig nificance of which is all-import- ant. That 16-kilometer strip across the Polish Corridor means that whenever Hitler wants to, he can shut Poland off completely from Gdynia and the sea. This roadway would be almost equivalent to giving Canada a narrow strip of land from Connecticut through the Bronx across the Hudson to New Jersey, completing isolating the area around New York city from the Port of New York.
 Once Hitler has taken Danzig and road across the Polish Cor ridor, he has Poland at his mercy, in about the same way he had Czechoslovakia at his mercy after swallowing the Sudetenland. Thus when he gets ready to take the rest of Poland, its conquest would be much easier-though not SO easy as the final conquest of CzechoSlovakia. The Poles are bet ter fighters.
 CHIPS CHRISTENING
 Friends are twitting Chip Rob- ert, vivacious secretary of the Democratic National Committee, that he was not his usual self at the christening of his baby daugh- ter.
 The christening was one of the social events of the Washington spring season. St. Johns church, where the President worships, was packed with dignitaries. The proud father, who is also secretary of Southeast Governors Conference, was clad in cutaway and striped trousers. But he appeared nerv- ous.
 Doris Duke Cromwell, richest woman in America and one of the godmothers. was late. The as- semblage waited ten minutes. Fin ally she arrived.
 Just as she did so, friend re- marked to Chip: "Chippy, you're not yourself today. Here you were, with Supreme Court Justices and Cabinet members in this congregation waiting for ten minutes. Yet you didn't make one speech for the South east Governors Conference or try to raise . single dollar for the Democratic National Com mittee.
 Chip. you certainly are slip ping"
 NOTE-Glamorous Evie Robert, mother of the child, hesitated three months before she could de- eide on name, finally chose Alice Berney, after grand mother. Friends wanted her to name the baby "Franklina" be- cause she was born on Roosevelt's birthday.
 CAPITAL CiAFF
 Chief Justice Hughes recently remained at a dinner given in his