The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-10

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 At the dock he posed amiably for pictures and when his cousin, Chairman "Jerry" Land of the U. s. Maritime Commission, began shooing them away by waving a suitcase menacingly at them, Lind bergh chided: "Be careful, you're liable to hurt one of them."
 Land acted as chaperon for tht Lone Eagle and kept everybody away except small group of close friends. This was great disap- pointment to McCarran and his committee, who had hoped to bask in Lindbergh's limelight.
 Every time he appeared on deck congressman clustered around like a crowd of auto graph hunters, but he paid them no more attention than other strangers. Land, who ar- ranged the seating at Lind bergh's table, excluded the con- gressi0nal group.
 The only guests seated at the flyers table were Admiral Land. Lauren D. ('Deke") Lyman, for- mer New York reporter who scooped the world on Lindbergh's sudden departure to England in 1885; and 0. B. Allen, another for mer New York newsman who is now an official of the Civil Aeronautics Authority.
 Lindbergh was in high spirits during the luncheon and related number of experiences of his European aerial survey last year. One was a story he heard in Ger many about the British balloon de- fense to protect London from aerial attack. Occasionally these bal looms break away from their moor ings, and some have been recovered in Germany.
 ''The Germans got a big laugh out of that" Lindbergh said. "They told me that the next time it happened they would hitch the balloon to a Zeppelin and return it to London"
 At Langley field, Lindbergh dis played greatest interest in the wind tunnel, largest in the world. After watching a miniature plane, maned by marionette pilot, be- ing buffeted about for a while, he remarked jocularly, "That boy needs little more time on the ground before he SOloeS."
 POLISH DILEMMA
 Ironic tragedy of the Poles pres ent position is that they have only themselves to blame. By helping to carve up Czechoslovakia last October they opened the door to their own downfall.
 The headlines don't tell the whole story, for what the Poles are afraid of is not the capture of Danzig alone, but Hitler's en- circling movement. This fear grew into a stabbing pain after Hitler Czechoslovakia last March. Prior to that, Poland had looked with complacence upon Hitler's ambi- tions, actually had helped him wrench the Sudetenland away from Czechoslovakia, and taken small piece itself.
 But when the rest of Czech0- SlOvakia went down the Nazi maw, the Poles suddenly woke up to find themselves surround ed by 8 long German border on the south where Czechoslovakia used to be. On the west they had always had Germany, and on the north was East Prussia.
 Germany was on three sides. Only outlet to the outside world was through Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig.
 Also the Poles began to find Nazi propaganda springing up among the Ukranians in southeast Poland. This area borders on Slo- vakia, and has been much more accessible to agitators ever since Germany took all of Czechoslo- vakia.
 So the Poles today are really worried about the pulling to pieces of their entire country-the Polish Corridor going to Germany. the Polish Ukraine to Independent" Slovakia, and even eastern Poland to Russia, should that country right-about-face and line up with Germany.
 If the Poles had stuck with Cxechoslovakia Instead of mos bilizlng against her last October, lt might have been different. TWO 0KLAHOMANs
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