The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-02
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 FThat MT. Roosevelt used the words, as reported, our frontier ia in France Is probably gloss. ten- dencious perhaps, on what he actu- ally said. However, our washing ton correspondent interprets what did occur as an indication that the president intends to fight vigorous ly for his declared policy of refus- Ing moral and materail support to aggressors and that he believes that while 1t may be difficult to secure amendment of the neutrality act, Congress and public opinion would approve discrimination in sales of arms and munitions to be enforced by semi-offlcial influence,
 Tn that event, the United States would become more than ever a ponderable and perhaps decisive factor in international calculations"
 No doubt Is held here that If the United States aided the democracies by selling them arms, Great Bri- tain and France could soon reduce the superiority in armaments which Germany and Italy enjoy.
 Just how important this may soon become clear not only from the pros- poets of vigorous Italian demands on France but from the growing feeling that Adolf Hitler may make his next move not toward the east but toward the west--toward Bri- tain, with a demand for colonies.
 Chamberlain Makes It Plain
 Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain has made 1t fairly plain that any colonial deal is dependent on an arms limitation agreement. Hence government quarters believe that there is no chance of col- onial agreement now, even If Ger many agreed to limit their arms at n level agreeable to Britain and France--and there is no sign they would--it would still be necessary to obtain the collaboration of the Soviet Union, Japan and the United States, whose armaments could not be ignored by the four European powers involved.
 For these reasons, it is said that with arms limitation unlikely, the British government is unable to consider c colonial deal. Therefore diplomatic quarters foresee a period of growing impatience in Germany regarding the failure of Britain and France to respond to Hitler's col- onial demands. It Is predicted that this impatience will be made clear in the German press and by Ger man officials while Italy presses its claims against France. He Is added that tension Is to be feared late in February or ia March.
 officials Are Silent
 British official quarters declined to comment on the Presidents rec marks.
 Diplomatic quarters had no knowledge of any formal under- standing on arms purchases between the United States and the British and French governments. They as- sumed, however, that Britain and the United States had discussed the question fully, including the effect the American neutrality law might have on Britain's right to obtain supplies from the United States in war time.
 Morgenthau Speaks
 Washington, Feb. 2.-(UP)-Sec- retary of the Treasury Henry Mor- genthau, IT,, today denied that the S2,000, 900 stabilization fund was being used to aid foreign countries to purchase merchandise here,
 He Issued the denial ct his press conference in commenting on charges in congress that the stab- ilization fund might have been used to assist thre French in purchasing war planes In the Unietd States.
 "T'he stabilization fund Is not being used directly or indirectly or in any way whatsoever to help any country make any purchase of mer- chandise," Morgenthau declared. Vatican Takes Exception
 Vatican City, Feb. 2-(Up)-Os- servatore Romano official Vatican organ, took Vigorous exception in an editorial today to Fuehrer Adolf Hitlers reference to religious lib- erty in present-day Germany in his speech of Monday.
 After listing ten points on which the church must take issue with Hitler, the editorial, one of the most strongly worded since formation of the Rome-Berlin axis, said:
 Liberty has lost all meaning in the ecclesiastical and religious field in the Tihrd Reich"
 Regarding Hitler's announced in- tention of separating church and state as in France and the United States, Osservatore said:
 Tt would be interesting to hear from Hitler's own lips if he intends to include those liberties enjoyed by the church in those two colin- tries"
 Discussing the Nazi campaign the editorial said:
 "The persecution does not close churches and until recently has not harmed a single priest, but 1t is do- ing its utmost to make the churches empty and priests superfiuous."