The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

Suner to this key post.
 Suner is Franco's brother-in-law, and the envoy who has just come back from Rome and Berlin where he conferred with Hitler and Mus solini and brought Spain formally under the Axis. Suner is con- sidered the foremost Axis advocate in Spain.
 Shortly after State Department officials has decided privately to give the credit to Spain, Jay AL len, fortnight ex-correspondent of The Chicago Tribune, encountered Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long.
 Have we reached the point
 of getting down on our knees
 to beg people to take our
 money?" asked Allen, referring
 to the Franco credit.
 Were hoping to keep Franco neutral" replied Long.
 "Yes," countered Jay Allen, "he'll stay neutral just as long as 1t pays the Axis to keep him
 neutral = which is until he
 can get sufficient supplies and
 credits from us. You'll keep
 Franco neutral the same way
 Italy was = until she had
 ample U. s. Steel, U. s. wheat,
 and U. s. gasoline, all on credit.
 After Spain has all those sup
 plies, Franco will come i'm" NO WHEAT FOR LOYALISTS
 The Export-Import Bank credit is for the shipment of wheat to Spain. In this connection it is important to note that shortly before the end of the Spanish Civil War, Merwin K. Hart and other ardent Francoites opposed the shipment of wheat to Spain even though the American Friends Service Committee proposed to distribute it equally to both Loy- alists and Fascists.
 After the final fall off the Span- ish government, however, it was different. At that time Merkin K. Hart took John Rich of the Friends Service Committee to Tor kild Rieber, then chairman of the Texas company. And through Rieber, $40,000 was put up to buy wheat from the Surplus Com moditieS Corporation of the Ag- riculture Department. This wheat was then sent to Fascist Spain. .. NOTE = Rieber resigned from the board of the Texas company when it was discovered that he had been friendly with Dr. Ger hard WeStrick, Hitler's economic agent in the United States. Also he had been close to the Spanish fascists, having loaned an automo- bile to Franco's agent in the United States (just as he did Westrick); also having got his son a job with Texaco in the Ven ezuelan oil fields.
 JUDGE ASHURST?
 Finest recent tribute to a United States senator was circulated be- hind his back, when 84 colleagues signed a petition asking Roosevelt to appoint Senator Henry Foun- tain Ashurst to the U. s. Court of Claims.
 There are only 96 members of the Senate, and 12 were absent or ill when the petition was cir culated proposing this reward for the Senator from Arizona. AShurst has served that state for 28 years since the first day it was elevated from a territory to statehood. He was defeated this year in the Democratic primary, largely be- cause a weak heart prevented him from going home to campaign.
 In addition to his old friend, Senator Tom Connally of Texas, the person who helped get the record breaking total of 84 sena- torial signatures for Ashurst was Mrs. Lionel Atwill, daughter of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury and sister of Jimmy Cromwell. now running for senator from New Jersey.
 When the list was handed to Roosevelt, he remarked: "I wish I could get 84 senators behind me-" { ANSWERING LINDBERGH
 The New Deal has only itself to blame that Colonel Charles Lindbergh's last sharpshooting speech went unanswered.
 Mutual Broadcasting company, which gave the Nazi-decorated ap- basement advocate free time, made similar offer to the Dem ocrats. That it wasn't accepted was not Mutuaps fault.