The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-26

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 In brief, he said that England was virtually defeated.
 Ambassador Kennedy went out to California to visit William Ran dolph Hearst. and to consider a proposal by banking interests that he join the Hearst newspaper en- terprises. While there Joe, who once headed the Keith-Albee- Orpheum Theatres and later Pathe, dropped in to see some of his old friends in Hollywood.
 At a private gathering of movie moguls he expounded these ex- traordinary views:
 !. That England, although.
 fighting heroically, faced over.
 whelming odds, and the United
 States might as well realize that
 England was virtually defeated.
 ?. That the United States should
 carefully limit its aid to Britain
 So as to gain time to become
 fully armed, in order to be in a
 better position to do business
 with the Axis victors.
 3. That Hollywood producers
 should stop making films offen-
 Sive to the dictators.
 Kennedy also admonished his listeners to follow the views of the Will Hays organization and heed the Strictures of the Catholic Le- zion of Decency. He emphasized that great damage was being suf- fered by the Church as result of the war, which was emptying the churches. His thesis was that the Church must seek peace as soon as possible.
 Kennedy's remarks, although
 0ff-the-record, caused such a
 sensation that they were com
 municated immediately to
 Washington. Kennedy also told
 his Hollywood friends what he
 had already told the State De-
 partment, that he would defi-
 niteIy not return to London.
 NOTE-Joe Kennedy, one of Roosevelt's close personal friends, was one of the most popular American ambassadors ever to serve in London. He stuck at his post during the rain of death which hit all around the embassy, but for nearly a year has felt that England was fighting a hopeless war. Whether she won or not, Kennedy felt, the war would com- pletely revolutionize the British so- cial and economic system, also re- suit in the loss of most of her world trade.
 NEW CROP CURTAILMENT
 Beginning next week (Decem- Der D, the AAA will inaugurate the Alabama plan," which marks a sharp turning in the policy of crop control. It is aimed to rem- edy what has long been loosely described as paying farmers for. not growing something"
 Henry Wallace and the AAA never acknowledged that their program was as negative as that, but the new program sets out to eliminate all doubt.
 Heretofore farmer could earn benefit payments merely by aban- doning a certain acreage-that is, by reducing the number of acres of his major crop. But under the Alabama plan, he is required also to carry out certain soil building practices, such as terracing, plant ing erosion-resisting crops, and setting aside an acre of perma- nent pasture.
 The plan, first adopted in Ala bama, puts farmers on their met tie. If they fail to perform, the benefit payments are withheld. In other words, the objective is shift ed, from acreage reduction to im- provement of the soil of America. PLANES re GREECE
 Desperate Greece is now be- seeching the United States for airplanes, and the State Depart ment has announced that the re- quest is being given sympathetic" consideration. Not many people know 1t, but State Department red tape once cut of the shipment of living in a jungle just around the