The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18

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 This is the hangover of a long dispute dating from the time it was found that Secretary Hulls boys in the State Department were permitting Germany to buy arms from this country despite the postwar Treaty of Berlin, which prohibits" the importation of arms into Germany.
 Secretary Hull at that time stood up for Joe Green, head of the Munitions Control Board. He claimed that the peace treaty merely obligated Germany not to import arms, and placed no obli- gation on the United States not to sell arms. In other words, Ger many was doing the violating, and it made no difference if the United States connived at the vi- olation.
 However. there are other Cab- met members on the Munitions Control Board, and some of them emphatically disagreed with MT. Green, They feel that Secretary Hull merely has been trying to protect his subordinates. Result has been that the entire question was referred to Attorney General Murphy.
 Lawyers in the Justice De- partment already have reported confidentially and un0fficially that the State Department is wrong, but that 1t may be best not to embarass Secretary Hull with such a report. They say that since 8 policy already has been outlined by the State De- partment, the Justice Depart ment might have to defend its sister department in the courts, therefore the two must stick to- gether.
 Other Cabinet members, how ever, do not concur. They com- mend Hull's stand in rebuffing Hitler on Czechoslovakia, in with drawing the U. s. Ambassador, and in raising tariff rates under the trade treaty. And they main tain that Hull should be consis- tent and also enforce the treaty in regard to arms shipments.
 Murphy, standing between these two fires, has been asked
 to make a ruling. Odds are that he will duck.
 DIES RETREATS
 Chairman Dies of the un-Amer- icanism committee is six feet two and weighs well over 200 pounds. Representative Mike Bradley is five feet four and has hard time making the scales read 130. But the little Philadelphian has the big Texan completely buff faloed.
 Last session Bradley lashed Dies groggy with one of the most blis- tering attacks ever heard in the House. So when he learned that his own American Legion Post in Philadelphia had invited Dies to address it, Bradley boiled home and delivered this ultimatum: 'Tf Dies speaks Pm going to fol- low him and tell just what 2. kind of a guy he is."
 The Legion officers were in a stew. They knew Bradley would go through with his threat and it was possible to call off the ad- vertised meeting. Dies got them out of their dilemma.
 When he heard of Bradley's ac- ton he withdrew as speaker, be- ing replaced by ex-Representative Frank Dorsey, 6 friend of Brad ley's.
 NOTE-Bradley was confiden- tial wartime telegrapher to the late Admiral Sims. handled hun- dreds of history-making cables. GARNER AND NEGROES
 Little things sometimes swing the tide Of political events. In 1916 1t was Charles Evans Hughes failure to shake hands with Hiram Johnson in California that prob- ably lost him the election to Woodrow Wilson. And today the fact that Vice President Garner failed to attend the Marian An- derson concert before the Lincoln Memorial. or even to acknowledge the invitation. may ruin his chances for the presidency.
 The colored vote can swing an election one way or the other i'm such key states as New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Illinois, and Jack Garner, one Of tha shreWdest noIitlcians in