The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-03

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 This will be suggested in the near future by the Rome-Berlin axis, and to the conference will be invited not merely Europe's four main powers, but Poland and Spain.
 This is Hitler's latest secret sop to Warsaw. Colonies for Po- land have been discussed recently by von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister, and the Polish foreign minister, Colonel Beck. Mussolini will also demand new colonies for his minion, General Franco.
 The conference will avoid the appearance of being another Mu- nich and will have behind it the perfectly plausible motive of pro- viding more raw materials and economic resources for the na- tions now without them. How ever, the means of providing these raw materials may be tough for the French and British palate.
 For what Germany has in mind to satisfy its raw material crav- ing is a slice of Africa extending from French Senegal on the west coast of Africa to around Lake Chad, in the very center of the continent, and then south to the Belgian Congo. This would in- clude Liberia, an American Negro free coloney, Nigeria and large chunks of French territory. MUSSOLINPS APPETITE
 Italy, in turn, proposes to get Diibouti and part of French Somaliland, part of Tunis, and a strip connecting her present col ony of Libya with Ethiopia. This would be carved out of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan.
 Mussolini and Hitler would also demand some extra Africa terri- tory for their new Fascist ally, Spain. This is to be a slice of Morocco extending to the base of the Atlas Mountains. What will be asked for Poland is not yet known, but probably the old Ger man colony of Tanganyika.
 Thus it will be seen that Ger
 many will not be asking for
 the return of her old African
 colonies, but considerably more
 than her pre-war holdings, and
 for herself and her allies.
 NOTE-The London stock ex- change has reflected recent op- timism regarding continued peace, and there has been some Anglo French sentiment for making African concessions to the Rome Berlin axis. Whether French and British public opinion will meet the above demands, however, is doubtful.
 MUNICH STATESMEN
 Lord Kemsley, editor of Lon- don's Sunday Times, the Sunday Graphic. the Daily Sketch, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and chairman of Allied Newspapers, Ltd, was in Washington recently where he was entertained at vari- ous dinner parties.
 At one of these, his host in- troduced him to Colonel Harring- ton, new chief of the WPA. It was just after Harrington's re- quest for additional WPA funds had been turned down by the Senate, and Lord Kemsley re- marked:
 "I say, jolly bad luck you had in the Senate this afternoon. I was up there when they voted against you on that appropria-
 ton. Pure politics, it seemed to me. What you need are states
 men, not politicians, don't you think so?"
 'If you mean statesmen of
 the Munich type, we don't want em." shot back Harrington, and
 walked away.
 UNDER THE DOME
 Greatest expert on Jesse James in the capital is Harry Hawes, erudite ex-senator from Missouri. In preparation for the Missouri Society Dinner, Hawes dug through the Library of Congress for every scrap published on the famous Missouri bandit, published 8 booklet on the James brothers '. Great Britain now has 186,- GOO less troops in her army than when the World War started in 1914 Mussolini's latest inamorata is a 17-year old Ger man beauty with whom he appears publicly. Diplomatic dispatches indicate that Il Duce seems to