The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-14

Il
 The Hull dressing down, togeth- CT with internal reactions in Ja- pan, seems to have cooled off the Japanese somewhat. Intelligence reports reaching Washington in- dicate that danger of Japanese declaration of war against Brit ain, over the opening of the Bur- ma Road, is ebbing. What the Japanese are expected to do is to subject the Burma Road, with its incoming supplies of munitions for the Chinese army, to as in- tensive a bombing as is possible from air bases in South China and adjacent French mdo-China.
 As far as any attack upon the United States is concerned, >all the reports received in Army and Navy circles-and they have been studying the situation as care- fully as they know how-are that Japan cannot and will not risk war with the United States.
 In the first place, her navy has fuel oil for only two and half months. Her army has gasoline for only three months. And per- haps even more important, there is reported to be considerable di- vision of opinion inside the Jap aneSe Government.
 One group, headed by Prince
 Konoye, feels that Japan is
 merely being used by Hitler and
 the Axis to scare the United
 States away from more aid to
 the British. In fact, Konoye
 vigorously opposed signing the
 alliance, but finally had to yield
 to more aggressive Foreign Min
 ister Matsuoka and the War
 Minister. In addition, Ameri-
 can observers detect an uneasy
 feeling among the Japanese
 people and increasing rumblings
 of unrest.
 NOTE-Few foreign policies have met with greater unaninlity inside the State Department than the American attitude on the Far East. There have been some dif- ferences with other Cabinet mem bers who wanted to take an even stronger stand, but inside the State Department, Hull and Welles are 100 per cent together. RIPPER ACT
 Encountering Attorney General Bob Jackson in the White House offices, Marguerite LeHand, the Presidents personal secretary, complained about the stringencies of the Hatch Act.
 "Why, you know," she said,
 'tit even prevents us from wear
 ing buttons"
 "Buttons!" grinned Jackson in
 mock surprise. .'T don't think
 there is anything in the Hatch
 Act forcing people to wear zip- pers."
 WALLACE AND WILLKIE
 Henry Wallace knows how Wen- dell Willkie felt when they threw eggs in Pontiac, for Wallace also ran into tough treatment out in North Dakota. He knows only the last name of the offender-Mc- Murray, of Pasadena, California but he will remember him for a long time.
 McMurray was travelling on the same train with Wallace, occupy ing @ drawing room in another car. When the train stopped at North Dakota, Wallace stepped to the rear platform to speak.
 McMurray left the train and joined the crowd. As Wallace launched into his speech, McMur- ray called out from the crowd, Tt stlnks!"
 Six miles farther on, at Bis- marclE, Wallace addressed crowd from Q baggage truck standing beside the train. This time McMurray conceived the bright Idea of taking the train away and leaving Wallace be- hind. Ne gave . starting signal 70 She engineer, and the train began tO move.
 Passengers who had left tho train to hear Wallace speak scrambled t0 got back aboard, Wallace himself jumped from tho truck and swung onto the fnoy- he train.
 McMurray completely broko up Inc meeting. But the sorest Of tho perty were tbe railroad men wh0 denounced Nc. Anrfay'B boax A q eophomoFic