The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21

present ruler Of most Of E
 Captain Wiedemann has to be discreet in what he says today, but before the war reached its present crisis, he once gave this description of Hitler to a friend.
 "We never thought of him as
 anything unusual" Captain
 Wiedemann said. "The chief
 thing about him was his love of
 the army. He was the kind of
 man who could always be de-
 pended upon, if there was any
 disaffection or communism. He
 would root it out.
 Some years later saw a
 sign advertising one of his po-
 itical rallies, and said to my
 self, Could this be our little
 Hitler? I went in and it was
 he"
 That was the beginning of the renewal of an old acquaintance. Wiedemann later was an aide to Hitler in Berlin.
 Looking back over his entire career, Wiedemann says the key to Hitler's life and success is his belief in the army. The mili- tary has been Hitler's great fetish. Just as he believed in the army as a corporal, so he began work ing for the army immediately af- ter he became chancellor of Ger many.
 Fifty per cent of all Germany's revenue went to the army. It was his great ambition to build the best army in the world, to make Germany completely n:ilitarized state. According to Capt. Wiede- mann, military might is Hitler's only god.
 BRITISH BLITZKRIEG
 It remains the firm conviction of Secretary of War Stimson and General Marshall, his Chief of Staff, that if Hitler is to invade this country it will come this fall before we are prepared. They are inclined to think that as soon as Hitler is finished with the Bri- tish, he will move here. Stimson and Marshall have indicated this view to Congress, but they are even more positive in their pri- vate conversations U. s. air observers in London report that no matter how gallantly British pursuit planes oppose the Ger mans, and even though they al- ways bring down 10 to 15 per cent of the attacking Nazis, about 90 per cent of the Nazi bornbers al- ways break through The U. S. lesson to be drawn from this applies to the Panama Canal. De- spite the large air force guarding the Canal, military authorities ad- init that it would be impossible for them to prevent an enemy air armada from getting ever the locks One well-placed bomb can put the locks out of com mission for about three months. One factor in favor of the British is that when their pilots have to bail out they come down on British soil, can fight again next day. But Nazi pilots, bailing out, are captured Despite the herculean efforts of the British. U. s. observers doubt that they can hold out against the over whelming air odds against them. SIT-DOWN STRIKE
 A sit-down strike far worse than anything pulled by the CIO in the automobile plants of Michi- gan is now being staged by some American industrial leaders. It is a sit-down strike against the production of war and navy orders until industry sees what kind of a tax. bill will be written by Congress.
 1t Is the old, old struggle of profits versus public interest.
 Only this time 1t is being staged while the security of the nation is at stake. Also 1t is being staged while Congress is debating the problem of conscripting the youth (perhaps also their lives) of the nation.
 For behind the backstage ma. neuvering over the new war profits bill ie:-
 isT, the flat refusal of Q num- Der of key defense manufacturers Co move c finger on government contracts until they know posl- lively what the tax bill viii be; that is. until t has been actually enacted into law.