The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-28

fight.
 Vandenberg and Bridges, assidu- ously nursing presidential booms, were particularly peeved.
 To senatorial friends they com- plained that they had no intention of becoming the tail on the Pro- gressive kite. If the LaFollette boys thought they could dominate the neutrality fight, Vandenberg and Bridges made clear, they had another think coming. Senator Bridges even went so far as to in- dicate that he would quit the isolationist block if the LaFollette campaign continued.
 What Republican senators can not get out of their minds is that Phil LaFollette may be using the neutrality fight to stage a come back for himself and his Third Party movement. Nothing in re- cent political history fell flatter than the LaFollette Third Party, except possibly the subsequent campaign of its main author to be governor of Wisconsin.
 So you can't blame the Vanden- berg Bridges group for being sus- picious when Phil and Bob propose to set up a nationwide neutrality organization, with branches in every city, national headquarters in Washington and with Phil do- ing all the directing.
 An organization of this kind can all too easily be turned into the nucleus of third party after the neutrality fight is over, and the Republican group is not blind to that fact.
 PILLS "vIGILANTES"
 Phil has given them enthusiastic assurances that he will have no trouble financing the campaign, and 1t looks as if the aid of Henry Ford may be enlisted (even though Brother Bob LaFollette's Civil Lib- critics Committee has been casting an eye on some of Ford's labor policies).
 Phil's organization Is even be-
 ing called tentatively "The Vigi-
 lantes," despite Brother BOb's
 vigorous investigation of vigi-
 lante organizations.
 NOTE - In the end Senators Bridges took flat stand that they would have absolutely nothing to do with the LaFollette campaign, and Phil LaFollette, in disgust, left Washington.
 HITLER AND LaGUARDIA
 The President had a hard time suppressing his mirth when Mayor LaGuardia read him the resolu- tion of the Conference of Mayors pledging their silence on interna- tional affairs during the European war. LaGuardia headed the may- or's delegation which went to the White House, where he read the resolution with great solemnity.
 Then, shaking with suppressed laughter, the President said, "Of course, Fiorello, that resolution ap- plies to you, too"
 LaGuardia flushed, then grinned broadly and replied, Yep, and I'm taking the pledge right now. No more dirty cracks at Hitler" JEWISH DOCTORS
 Cordell Hull has clamped down on passports for 360 Jewish medi- cal students, all American born, who have been studying in Scot land.
 Although most people probably don't realize 1t, most American medical schools quietly limit their Jewish student to a relatively small number with the result that many American Jews go to Scot land each year for their training.
 The 36O embryo doctors whose passports are now held up have finished part of their training in various Scotch medical universities, and will have their careers cut short unless MT. Hull relents. PRESS-SHY STETTINIUS
 With the War Resources Board a new type of official has come to Washington, a type which has made Washington newsmen won- der what kind of censorship might be clamped down in case of war.
 Head of the board is Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.. wonder-boy of the industrial world. Working with him on the board is John J. Pratt, vice president of General Motors, and Stettinius' former boss.
 Last week . Washington news