The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-05


 It will be recalled that it was the British black list which caused so many complications with the United States during the last war. Companies suspected of trading with the enemy were list ed by the British, and any goods consigned to them were promptly seized on the high seas or any where else that the British navy could lay hands on them.
 The new British black list was published last week. Shortly there after, Moore and McC Cormack, chief steamship operators between the United States and the east coast of Latin America, refused to ac- cept shipment from the Braz- ilian firm of Willie & Co.,, be- cause 1t was on the British black list. The latter company is run by a Brazilian of German origin, but the goods were consigned to New York, not to Germany.
 U. S. Commerce Department officials were outraged that an American steamship company should bar Brazilian shipment merely because of British frowns. State Department reports in- cated that Moore and McCOr- mack had reversed their position regarding Willie & Co.,, but Com- , merce Department experts, more alert regarding U. S. trade in-
 terests, reported that the ship. :; ping firm also had rejected : cargo from Stout & Co., of .Buenos Aires. .,.
 The reports were that car ; goes between North and, South < America from all blackiisted firms were being refused. This: ] policy was being adopted despite the declafatoin at, the Panama Conference barring. bclligerent
 interference with neutral ship
 ping in fPan- American waters. 7 GENERAL JOHNSON'S < RELATIVE sa-
 When John Car1nody was ap- pointed boss of the new Public Works setaup (iaow includnig Pub lie Roads, U. s. Housing, etc., as well as the old PWA), one of his first Journalistic pannings came from General Hugh Thompson. As. usual, the General was violent and aciduous. .s
 Amonth or so later, after Car mody took the oath of office, the brother-in-law of, General John son, Maj. Coyington K. Kilbourne, was eased out of: his job. He was given. an indefinite furlough de-. spite the pleas flo Secretary Ickess friends that Kilbourne was an ef-g fieient engineer and that, there was absolutely no politics mixed up in his appointment.
 NOTE-Ickes, who appointed Kilbourne under the old ;PNVA;,. has been called .Howling Harold" by@Generai Johnson, plus various other choice epithets, but never dropped Johnsols brother-i law, CAPITAL CHAFF
 Senator Nye is talking about 8 three billion dollar public works appropriation to replace war busi-: ness this country would lose by barring all shipments, munitions and otherwise, to the belligerents. .... Keep an eye on Frank Mur- phy if and when Justice Butler steps down from the Supreme Court. Both are Catholics and both come from the. same section of the country. Butler from Min nesota and Murphy from Mich igap. Only difficulty is that Mur- phy Is so engrosesd with his Jus tice Department job that he might not take a Court appointment \. Congressman Tom Hennings of Missouri came back from a trip to the West Coast recently re- porting sentiment increasingly strong for a third term. Young William Jennings Bryan told Hem rnings in California that the state was. 3 to 3 for Roosevelt . High officials will tell you privately that the British empire is on the toughest spot in its long and sometimes precarious history.
 NO PROPAGANDIST
 sColonal Charles A. Lindbergh was extremely indignant when he learned that isolationist elements were using his neutrality broad- cast to put pressure on congress against repeal of the arms em- bargo.
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