The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17

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 One business man from the Middle West talked to the Presi- dent about some careful sound ings he had made throughout the area, which disclosed that 90 per of the people were convinced that the British and French would lose in the early stages of the war, but would win in the end.
 This brought from Roosevelt the comment: "It's 3 mistake to as- sume anything like that"
 He went on to explain that re- ports from American military and naval attaches were not at all optimistic regarding the Allied position.
 We want to look around very
 carefully" the President con-
 tinued in effect, ''to see what
 our position will be without
 the British fleet. We want to
 examine the situation from the
 point of view not only of our
 own coasts, but those of Cam
 ada and Central America"
 The President did not elaborate further. But his naval strategists long ago pointed to the certainty that in the event of a German victory, Hitler would take over the British fleet exactly as Bri- tain took over the German fleet in 1918. With the combined German and Japanese fleets, the strategists pointed out, it would take more than the Monroe Doctrine to pro- tect the vast undeveloped areas of Latin America.
 HOOVER AND MOLLY
 Herbert Hoover is certainly not pulling any punches about Profes- sor Raymond Moley's articles in The Saturday Evening Post. He . not only told Roosevelt he would cooperate in denouncing them publicly, but at conference of California newspaper editors in Palo Alto, he took some further cracks at the ex-Brain Truster.
 During the discussion Hoover was asked what he thought of the Moley articles, and the ex-Presi- dent shot back that he considered Moley a "Nitwit".
 Later he corrected this, however, saying he did not want to call Moley a nitwit, but felt that Moley had not given a true pie ture of the 1892 conferences be- tween President-Elect Roosevelt and President Hoover at which Moley was present. Hoover con- cluded that if the professors ar- ticles were no more thorough about other matters than they were about the conferences, then he could not consider them trust worthy.
 Continuing, he added that
 Moley had jumped to con- clusions based upon only partial
 information, did not have all
 the facts that Roosevelt had,
 and was putting Roosevelt in a
 bad light without having as
 good grounds to do so as he
 made out.
 Later in the discussion Hoover remarked: "Moley is probably 8 dreamer and an idealist. But in this case he violated a confi- dential relationship similar to that of a lawyer and his client" / ITO JUSTICE"
 On the day the Finnish dele- gation arrived in Moscow, friend of the Finnish Minister in Wash ington, Hjalmar Procope went to call on him at the Legation. Drinks were brought in, and as the glasses were raised, the guest proposed a toast: Let us drink to the continued indepen- dence of Finland"
 Procope's eyes lighted and the expression of his face was reso- lute. "To Justice!" he cried. and and they drank.
 The justice which Procope prays for in these days is the justice he worked for and suf- fered imprisonment for as a revolutionary leader in 1918. For melting Films to shake off the Russian yoke, Procope was thrown into prison. But within a year he was a member of parliament in the independent republic of Finland.
 r Procope is not a career dip- lomat, but shipping expert. It was as president of an ex- porting company that he first came to know the United States. At once," he says, T liked this