The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-10

World war QayS. The leg
 The first step was taken last fall when a detail of G-Men and detectives was assigned to rein- force the Capitol's regular police force, which is made up chiefly of patronage appointees, students working their way through school. Then in the spring a squadron of metropolitan uniformed police was sent to the Hill = making total of 25O blue-coats and plain clothes men guarding 531 sena- tors and representatives.
 Last week, still another pro- tective measure was taken in the form of a set of drastic regula- tions under which:
 The Capitol is closed to the ; public daily at 4:30, except when
 Congress is in session, and ad- mittance Is only by special cards.
 Guards are stationed at the
 subway entrances of the Sen- ate and House wings to scrutinize everyone going in and out and
 to examine all packages.
 The Capitol'S power plant is
 guarded 24 hours & day.
 Plainclothesmen accompany
 every group of sightseers.
 All persons who summon
 members off the floor are kept
 under constant surveillance.
 A constant police vigil is kept
 in the public galleries, in the
 restaurants, and at night, in all corridors inside. and the grounds
 outside.
 One big reason for these elabor- ate precautions is to prevent recurrence of the bombing that took place in the Capitol prior to American entry into the last war. Planted in a Senate recep- ton room by a pacifistic college professor, the bomb exploded at midnight, July 2, 1915, and left the chamber in shambles.
 Earlier that day The Washing ton Times received letter from the perpetrator announcing his in- tention to bomb the Capitol "as an exclamation point to my ap- peal for peace" He was arrested several days later at Mineola, L. I. He committed suicide in his cell.
 MOTHER COUNTRY SPAIN
 If Spain, mother country of Latin America, joins the axis group, she will carry little sym pathy of the Americas with her. On the contrary, the countries south of the Rio Grande have strained relations with Spain at present, and her embracing the axis cause would not win them in that direction.
 The strain arose over what appears to be trifling issue the fate of thirteen men. When Franco marched into Madrid during the Spanish civil war, 13 Loyalists sought asylum in the Chilean embassy there.
 Chile has protected them ever since and has tried to get them safe conduct out of the country. offering permanent residence in Chile. But the relentless Franco wants the Iyes of those thirteen Loyalists, and he has refused all Chile's requests in their behalf.
 This issue is of great import ance for the Latins, who never know when revolution may make life uncomfortable in their own capitals, or when they might want to take refuge in @ foreign em- bassy.
 Chile felt 1t so keenly that she permitted the breaking off of diplomatic relations between Chile and Spain rather than surrender the LOyalists. In that action Chile has the support of most of her ueighbors.
 Cuba, for example, was consid- ering the possibility of resuming normal diplomatic relations with Spain. Now. though Cuba is sending 0restes F'erTara, former ambassador to the United States, on . commercial mission to Mad- rid. the full relations will not be resumed.
 THE LaFoLLETTEe
 In tho current pre-campaign iockeying for position, both Re- publican and Democratic chiefs are Warily watching Wisconsin's temous brothers IagolIsile ~1en.