The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-21

not to go back to LOndon a
 What Ambassador Kennedy dis covered was that Secretary Hull and some of his young men were deliberately sabotaging him.
 Most fragrant sabotage was performed by MT. Hull personally, when he told a press conference that the State Department had not OK'd Kennedy'S famous speech in which the ambassador expressed general approval of Chamberlam's appeasement pol icy.
 Real fact was that Kennedy had cabled the speech to the State Department in full and MT. Hull had given his O. K. in advance. When the speech got a bad press break, how ever, the Secretary of State ducked. He let his ambassador catch the brickbats by him. self.
 Hull also didn't like the fact that when the British trade treaty was being negotiated. Joe was anxious to protect the New England shoe industry (the ann bassador comes from Boston,. On various occasions Hull has dropped curt remarks to his aides about Kennedy, and his aides, taking the cue, have not been deaf, dumb and blind with the press.
 Naturally, all this leaked back to Kennedy. And before he agreed to go back to London. he made 1t absolutely plain to the . President that no American ambassador could function in any foreign capital while the ground was being cut from under him by his own State Depart ment.
 Since Roosevelt, himself. finds Cordell Hull a little trying. and would like to jostle the old gen. tleman into paying attention to something beside trade treaties, Kennedy got plenty of sympathy. Under Secretary Sumner Welles, another who has to use a lot of patience with Hull. also had a good talk with Kennedy.
 BOTH HE AND ROOSEVELT GAVE HIM EMPHATIC ASSUR- ANCES OF SUPPORT.
 POPULAR ENVOY
 Joe Kennedy is the most popu- lar ambassador the United States has sent to London in years. His popularity even extends beyond government circles to the man in the street.
 Illustrative of Kennedy's influ- ence. he called London on the telephone while in Palm Beach re- gently, and immediately secured a reversal of the British ban on the use of Newfoundland as land- base for U. S. planes crossing the Atlantic. Previously the Bri- tish had refused to cooperate. SENATOR CLASS WPA
 Senator Carter Glass of Virginia doesn't want 1t known, but dur ing the recent Senate Appropri- ations hearings which slaShed WPA funds, he remarked tss- tiH:
 '.In my opinion. the fact that a man is on WPA Is prime facie evidence that he Is in- competent"
 The remark brought an imme- diate protest from several other committee members. among them Senator Hale of Maine. veteran Republican whose economic views generally coincide with those of Glass.
 Half an hour after the tram script of the committee hearings had been released, Senator Glass hastily recalled copies and ex- punged his remark from the rec- ord.
 CHIP ROBERTS FEES
 Real truth about the alleged big lobbying fees paid to Lawrence w. (Chipl Robert for securing PWA funds for a Georgia hospital and other public works, is that a little argument about this took place within tSe official family a long time ago.
 There never was any secret about the fees which Chip Robert received in connection with PWA projects in Georgia. They are all a matter of public record which anyone can read. However, hard- hitting Harold Ickes, who has charge of PWA funds, didn't like the idea of commissions being paid to Roberts engineering and architectural firm. He said 1t looked bad for commissions to be