The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-08

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 Ross is 70-year old Scotsman residing permanently in Washing ton. He was a close friend of Lord Northcliffe, also of Presi- dent Wilson, and before Wilson sailed on his peace treaty mission, Sir Charles, an astute student of U. s. politics, advised him to take along a group of Senate leaders. Wilson disregarded the advice and lived to regret it.
 In recent years Sir Charles has lived in retirement. But he was stirred by the ill-feeling he saw developing in Senate circles as a result of Lady Lindsay's exclusion of half its membership from the coveted garden party. So he wrote a personal letter to Cham berlain pointing out the key role the Senate plays in U. S.. foreign relations, and urgently advising that regardless of space, all the senator and their wives be in- vited.
 In addition, Sir Charles wrote to his old friend, Premier Mac kenzie, King of Canada, suggest ting that he use his influence.
 Sir Charles quiet intervention produced quick results. Chamber lain spoke to Lord Halifax, foreign minister, and Halifax in turn, turn, communicated with Afnbas- sador Lindsey. A few days la ter Lindsay lunched with a group of congressional leaders and broke the news that all the Senators AND THEIR WIVES were invited to the royal garden party.
 ROYAL WORRIES
 One man who is suffering the tortures of the damned during the royal visit is Michael McDermott. genial press liaison officer of the State Department.
 MAC" is as Irish as his name implies, but if he bears the tra- ditional antipathy of his forebears to English royalty, he conceals it. For first, last and always he is loyal to his job, and during the visit of the King and Queen, his job is to prevent any awkward newspaper incidents.
 Mac" has been at the game a long time, and his memory goes back long way; He can re- member how newspapermen once asked Mrs. Coolidge if she were going to have baby. And he has been losing g little sleep late ly wondering what would happen if camera crew did to Queen Elizabeth what they once did to Queen Marie of Rumania - in vited her to sit on railing and show her royal legs in traditional ship news manner.
 PLAY HOUSE
 Overheard on the Capitol plaza:
 TOURIST, pointing to Capitol ''Who works there?"
 GUIDE: Nobody works there, buddy. That's where Congress meetS."
 BARRED WIRE REGISTER"
 The House un-Americanism committee overlooked questioning George E. Deatherage about one phase of his undercover operations perhaps the most amazing of them all. In. it's file on Deatherage,
 the committee has several let ters in which the loud d-mOuthed Fuehrer of the White Camelias refers to "Barbed Wire Regis
 ter" a secret list of men and
 women who have been marked
 for incarceration in c0ncentra-
 ton camps if and when Death
 craze and his pals take over the U. S. A.
 One of those on the register is Gardner (Pat) Jackson, former AAA official, now an executive of Labor's Nonpartisan League. This is disclosed in an exchange of letters between Deatherage and General Pelham Glassford, Wash- ington police chief during the bonus march and head of the Council of U. s. War Veterans. Tn writing to Glassford. Deather- age protested Jackson's member ship on the councils executive committee, on the ground that he is Q radical and that certain 'patriotic organizations" had cata- logucd him as "Barbed Wire Resis- tcr-No. 15se2."
 GlassfoFd fIntly refused to
 oust Jackson, writing Deather-
 age. "Jndging from Nr. Jack
 son's public record and utter-