The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-02

OSaASAo VI aAVatASV AAA1AASS' Dies, however, has an ace up his sleeve in @ secret promise from Republicans that they will vote as e bloc for his committee. This gives him powerful club to hold over the heads of the Democratic leaders, and they have been rack ing their brains for way to out- maneuver him.
 They know they can't sheive him completely. So they have
 been working on a plan to give
 his committee a new lease of
 life-but only for . short time,
 preferably for the duration of this congressional session. Their argument Is that this would give
 the committee time to offer
 remedial legislation to the House before adjournment.
 BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT DIES DOES NOT WANT.
 He doesn't want to run a show in competition with the rest of Congress. He wants to resume hearings next summer when he will have the whole stage to l,im- self. So he is working furiously behind the scenes to stall appro- priations for his committee until near the end of the session, when he will jam his proposal through in the closing rush.
 WALLIS AND EDWARD
 State Department officials read with alarm a news story from Hollywood the other day stating that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are coming to the movie capital in March.
 Reason for the alarm was that the Department is already up to its neck in preparations for tho King and Queen of England, to- gether with a swarm of lesser roy- alty and notability.
 The news dispatch said that a French nObleman, Count Am prose Du Eek, social secretary to
 the Duke and Duchess, was moving about in Hollywood in- cognitO, under the name "Mr. Luck" making arrangements for the royal visit.
 State Department hopes MT. Luck" is an imposter, but they don't quite dare inquire.
 SPANISH LIVES
 Terrific as the Spanish death toll was before and after the fall of Barcelona, it would have been greater had it not been for the presence of American ambulance units, doctors and nurses. Almost no one knows it, but the one man responsible for their presence is Ernest Cuneo, an unobtrusive New Deal adviser who forced the State Department to issue American passports for Spain.
 Originally Secretary Hull's young men took a flat stand that they would permit no American doc tors, nurses or even medical sup plies to reach Spain. This, Of course, was chiefly a blow against the Loyalists, since Mussolini and Hitler were looking out for Franco's needs.
 But the career boys reck0ned without Cune0. Acting entire- Iy on his own, he drew up an injunction against COrdell Hull to be served unless he issued passports to doctors and nurses. He also threatened to seek in- dictment of transportation com- panies if they refused to ship medical supplies.
 The injunction was never served, Cuneo convinced Hull that any refusal to restrict the countries for which passports are validAwas con- trary to the Bills of Fights. So MT. Hull executed one of the quickest right-about-faces in re- cent State Department history.
 Cuneo kept in the background, said nothing about his efforts. But his long legal brain probably was responsible for many lives being saved before and after Barcelona. ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
 The names of 36 prominent per- sons are yet unrevealed as smug- glers in the customs cleanup which started with the George Burns Jack Benny case Diplomats sent back to Europe in consider able detail the Walter Winchell revelations on Lindbergh's air sur- vey following his talk with Ambas-