The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-24

He reports that the morale of the Royal Air Force is excellent, that both British planes and pilots are better than the Ger man, and that two or three Brit ish fighters sometimes go up after twenty Nazi bombers and drive them away. Numerically, of course, Germany still is far ahead of the British airplane force.
 What the Nazis have been doing so far in their sporadic airplane flights over England is to look for Britain's new and hidden air fields. In Poland and Norway, the first thing that Nazis did was to bomb airports and the adjacent hangars. Learning from this les son, the British have now pushed old trucks and automobiles onto their airports, making them a burial ground for jallopies. Mean while, their real airports are hid- den.
 The Nazis have been sending scouting planes to find them. AS far as the British can ascertain, they have been unsuccessful.
 The NaziS also have been corn- pletely unsuccessful in their fifth column activities in England. The British cleaned out all suspects long ago, and the British people are reported to be standing like a rock against the invasion.
 Equally optimistic have been British bombing flights over Ger many. These take place every night over the Ruhr industrial areas and the Hamburg ware houses. Intelligence reports indi- cate that large stores of Naz gaS- oline have been destroyed, and that at Essen Workkmen have be- come so restless over the nightly bombingS that some of them have been arrested for "defeatist" at- titude. The effect of the British bombing has been to prevent night time factory production, and also to keep workers from sleep ing.
 NOTE-Despite this optimistic re- port, the consensus of War De- partment opinion is that Great Britain faces the toughest battle in history, which may end in de- feat. However, the picture Is is brighter than it was.
 KING MAKERS
 Two unknown newcomers staged the quiet behind the scenes drive which put over Henry Wallace.
 One was Farmer Eugene Casey, big Maryland dairyman; the other was bespectacled Dr. Luther Haar. business manager of The Phila- delphia Record and manager of Senator Joe Guffey's recent suc- cessful primary campaign.
 While other vice-presidential hopefuls had elaborate headquar- ters and electioneering parapher- nalia, Casey and Haar avoided these trappings and brought pres sure to bear where it would count at the right moment. Each work ed different spheres.
 Haar exerted his persuasive tal- entS on key leaders and labor chiefs, with whom he is intimate. Not revealed were the personal telegrams to Roosevelt from CLOS Phil Murray, Tom Kennedy and John Owen, which helped clinch the decision on Wallace.
 Casey did his stuff among the inner circle and farm leaders. The pincers drive worked and the nod went to Wallace.
 He got the news at breakfast early Thursday morning. Grin ming boyishly, he remarked to friends who came to congratu- late him: T found I didn't have a soft shirt this morning so I had to wear this stiff one. And the only cuff links I had were these the President gave me. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was lucky omen."
 NOTE-Only shadow on Wall lace's happiness was his inability to reach Jim Farley. The two have been good friends. and as soon as he got the word from Washington, Wallace telephoned Farley. But repeated efforts brought no response and all ines- sages went unanswered.
 FREEMAN FLIGHT
 One incident that nobody knew about ct Chicago concerned the fall of France and the tragic plight of one of it's most brilliant journalists. Pertinax.
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