The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09

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 Objective No. l may be describ- ed as that for which the admin istration will aim, but not actually expect to attain. This is the dis cretionary right of the executive to impose embargoes on aggres- sor nations.
 Objective No. 2 is the one on which the administration will fall back, and the one it really expects to reach. This is the wiping out of the neutrality act except for the cash-and-carry provisions.
 Put in different words, this would mean that any nation could buy war materials and munitions in the United States provided it came to American shores and loaded those munitions in its own ship. The effect of this is two- fold and extremely important:
 ONE, it removes American
 vessels from the risk of being
 sunk for carrying contraband,
 thereby removing also the dan-
 ger of war hysteria over such
 incidents.
 TWO, it plays into the hands
 of Europe's two chief democra-
 cies, France and Great Britain
 flor they dominate the ship ping of the Atlantic. Thus in
 time of war they could buy
 munitions in the United States
 while the dictator nations, for
 the most part, could not.
 One handicap to this policy is that 1t also favors Japan, which because of its powerful fleet and merchant marine in the Pacific could always turn for its supplies to the United States in wartime. This is one reason why admins tration leaders will aim for Ob- jective No. 1, with discretionary power of the President to impose embargoes.
 SENATOR PITTMAN
 Senator Key Pittman, sagacious chairman of the foreign relations committee, is strong for this policy and has been taking sound- ings of various Senators. Why shoot man when you can starve him to death?" he says.
 "The President feels," the Me- vada Senator explained, "that we have economic and financial power to enforce our rights without resorting to physical force. He has made it clear that 1t is our duty to refrain from aiding these conquerimg. dictators and equally our duty, in every way except by armed force, to aid the democracies in their fight against these dic- tators."
 To obtain Objective No. 1, Sen- ator Pittman will begin holding extensive neutrality hearings be- fore his foreign relations commit tee, and he may obtain it. He ex- poets that a concensus of com- mittee opinion will be reached in 30 days, when a report would be submitted to the Senate.
 Public opinion has changed a lot in recent months. However Objective No. ? will be the vital one for the administration. WEIGHTY TALK
 Here is what the President and the reception committee, appoint ed to escort him into the House when he addressed Congress, talked about as they went up in the elevator.
 They kidded each other about taking on weight.
 OPPOSITION PAYS
 Senators Minton of Indiana and Schwellenbach of Washington, two of Roosevelt's most ardent supporters, were joshing Senator Burke of Nebraska, also Demo- crat but one of Roosevelt,s most ardent opponents. Despite his op- position. Burke had just got the White House to appoint George Proudfit as U. s. marshal in Ne braska.
 'Weil, it looks as if the Presi- dent Is following a policy of ig- n0ring his friends and reward ing his enemies," observed Minton.
 sT guess the only way for us to get our appointments through Is to oppose Roosevelt,s suggested Senator Schwellen- bach. 'Then maybe we would get Proudfit."
 "Yes," countered Burke, grim ming broadly, "the thing for you