The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-27

Castle, Jr., who served Still
Nothing Roosevelt could have
done could have nettled Hoover
and Castle more than Stimson's
appointment.
When all three were In the
Hoover administration, they fought
continually, and the basis OF their
fight illustrated the basic cleav-
age inside the Republican party
today. Hoover and Castle were
deathly afraid OF playing too
strong a hand In Europe and
Asia. Stimson leaned In the OPP
posite direction,
When Japan invaded Manchuria,
Stimson got Hoover's consent to
sending the late Prentiss Gilbert to
attend tho Council OF the League
OF Nations and help adopt O united
peace program blocking Japan.
But when several members OF the
Republican National Committee
objected, Hoover ordered Gilbert
out OF the Council meetings. II
took q personal phone call from
Viscount Reading finally to reverse
Hoover's position and permit Gil
bert 10 stay.
Again In 1884 when Hoover pro-
posed q Moratorium OH Germanys
war debt, he issued what was
called the "IIoOver plan. But his
Secretary Of State. then In Lon
don, and knowing how the French
disliked Hoover, flatly denied
there was any such thing as
Hoover plan. Later both men found
themselves on opposite shores OF
the Atlantic, one insisting there
was no Hoover plan, the other
that he had written II.
DOGGED STlMsON
Most disastrous friction between
Hoover and Stimson came during
the London Naval Conference OF
1880, when Stimson saw that moth
ing save consultative pact would
save the conference. This pact
pledged the United States to con-
suit with Europe In case Of war.
But the morning after Secretary
Stimson, In London, had an
rlounced his determination to nego-
tiate such a pact, his chief In the
White House issued this formal
statement:
mo security or consultative
pact has been considered NJ any
time during the course Of the
London Conference"
or course, this left Secretary
Stimson very much out on the
limb. But II Ii significant that
when II came TO q showdown be-
tween Hoover and his Secretary
OF State, his Secretary OF State
usually won.
Stimson mas q logged persistence
and a will OF iron which made him
the most potent figure In the
Hoover cabinet. And In the
Roosevelt Cabinet both the gen.
erals and FDR himself will have
a hard time swaying Stimson-if
he doesn't want 10 be sWayed.
SUPPRESSED BLAST
There was one Republican blast
at the Stiinson-Knox cabinet APP
pointments that was not released.
It was written by dapper. white
crested former National Chairman
Henry Fletcher, and read:
I'VE see no occasion to attach
any significance 10 the fact that
two fleas hop from an elephant
to q donkey"
! Republican leaders In Philadel-
phia TO whom Fletcher showed the
statement laughed heartily, but
persuaded him not TO give 1t to
the press.
ORGANIZED sPONTANEITY
For O spontaneous" campaign,
the Willkie blitzkrieg was one
OF the best organized ever seen.
It completely outshone the CAM
paigns OF his rivals, who were
actively In the field many months
before his name was even "men-
toned.
Starting with six different head
quarters a week before the con-
vention opened. by Monday at
least a dozen Willkie camps were
going full blast. All we're elabor-
ately and manned with we'll
dressed and CHEEKY young men
and women TO whom the expert
ence was o new and exciting adj
venture.
One Willkie stratagcm. how.
ever, did not ring the bell. This
was o flood Of kilograms from
their home towns and states that
greeted the delegates upon ar.
rival. Going through them, they
found that many Of the wires