The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-06

He nursed a grudge against
Chamberlain and the British, who
at one time tried to persuade Hit
Ter to turn his conquistadorial &C
tvities toward the Ukraine rather
than Poland.
The Russian government is a
personal government, in which
grudges count for much. Stain
has now evened his grudge against
the British.
But you can write it down in
the book that he has not forgot
ten his grudge against Hitler.
That gentleman's word against
Russia once were far worse than
his denunciation of Britain.
And when the time is ripe
Stain will get his revenge.
CABINET BABIES
Secretary of the Interior IckeS
and Secretary of the Democratic
National Committee "Chip" Robert
take a lot of punches at each
other, but between their wives it
is different. ..+.
When Mrs. Ickes' baby was born,
Mrs. Robert happened to be at
Flagstaff, Arizona. Having pro-
duced an offspring herself only. a
few months before, she sent the
following telegram to Mrs. Ickes:
Congratulations! But at best
it's no Sunday school picnic, is
it?"
Some time later came the fol-
lowing reply from Mrs. Ickes:
Sorry to have been unable
to thank you for your telegram
of congratulations before this
but 1 have just returned from
the hospital. As you say, it's
no Sunday school picnic, but
anyone as handsome as little
Harold is certainly worth it."
ANSWER TO COUGHLIN
To many of the U. S. Catholic
hierarchy there seemed to be more
to the recent editorial in the
Vatican newspaper, Osservatore
Romano, than just fulsome lau-
dalton of the Presidents foreign
policy. They also saw in it
pointed admonition to Father
Coughlin.
1t has never been disclosed
that following the sharp public
rebuke administered to Coughlin
last spring by Bishop Bernard
j. Shell of Chicago, Coughlin
followers began deluging the
Pope with letters defending the
radio priest and denOuncing
both She'll and his late friend,
Cardinal Mundelein. Whether
Father Coughlin was behind the
barrage is not known, but at
one time as many as 5000 let
tiers a week were received by
the Vatican.
The Vatican is always glad to
hear from the faithful, but this
bold pressure campaign was some
thing different and caused much
raising of eyebrows. Nothing was
said at that time, but late In July
Bishop Shell sailed for Rome af-
ter comforting with Roosevelt. 1t
is known that he had an import
ant audience with the Pope.
Then, just as She'll landed in
New York, and the day before ne
lunched a second time with Rose
welt, the Osservatore Romano pub.
lished its highly significant edi-
torial comment.
WAR DEPARTMENT WAR
Secretary of War Woodfiny has
his own version of how the pIeSi-
dent happened to give a press con-
ference spanking to Assistant
Secretary Of War Louis johnson.
for writing foreword to a book
on war mobilization. The Presi-
dent also inferentially spanked
Wccdring himself for having
tattled on his assistant secretary
of war.
81 was very much embarrassed
that the President should have
indicated that I called the book
to his attention." Mr.. Woodring
tells friends, "for 1t was Miss
Perkins who brought the matter
up at Cabinet meeting. She
said that an officer from the
War Department had brought
the book to her, saying that 1t
represented the view of the De-
partment.
".What are my pacifist friends
going to say to this?' Miss Per-
kins asked: and I said, oh. yes,
that's something Mr.. johnson
wrote . preface to. They asked
me to write . preface several