The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-23

Atlantic to Brazil and Uruguay is relatively easy for modern bor1b- ing planes.
 The Vichy government has now openly admitted the arming of Dakar against the United States, and Free Ffenchmen escaping from North Africa have reported that about $500 Nazi technicians were busy in Dakar and other parts of French Northwest Africa installing coast altillery and building air bases.
 However, south of Dalxar and near Liberia, de GaIllle French- men are i'm control. Thus this part of equatorial Africa is being studied carefully as . base from which U. S. forces might operate to block NaM operations. against the Western Hemi- sphere.
 NOTE - Since the fall of Ethi- opia, Liberia is the only free country on the entire continent of Africa, and 1t had remained so only because of the United States. NAZT LowDOWN ON U. 8.
 Here is some interesting light on the current splurge of reports that Hitler will stage new peace offer" offensive.
 At a recent dinner party in Havana, the German Charge d. Affafres, Herr Tauchnitz, was asked by Q Cuban how long he thought the war would last. This was the Nazi reply:
 "About six months - by which time both the Pope and the President of the United States win have made an inter- ventiOn for peace and the. ac- tion of the President will be very important"
 "But do you really think"
 the Cuban asked in surprise, 'that the President will act in this manner? He has not talked that way"
 If you will recall. replied the German charge, @that said the President of the United States. I did not mention any name, either that of Roosevelt or Colonel Lindbergh."
 NOTE - Last spring Lindbergh in several speeches made n1ysteri- ous references to Q thew leader ship in the D. s
 AFL RUCKUS
 Hot inside warfare is raging in the AFL over President Bill Greens appointment of that seven man committee to study defense labor conditions and promote union cooperation" with the gov- ernment.
 It was huslned up; but at a cau- GUS last week the powerful build ing trade unions, representing the biggest voting bloc in the AFL. flatly repudiated the "ceoperation" committee, then followed this up by bluntly telling Green that the committee didn't exist as far as the building trade unions were concerned.
 The caucus was called by Harry Bates, potent chief of the bricklayars, who charged that instead of being notivated by the high. patriotic aims proclaimed by Green, the committee actually was set up for the secret pur- pose of snlplng at President Roose- welt and OPM Associate Direc- tor Sidney Hillman.
 Others also charged that the real instigators of the committee were Matthew Woll. AFL Vice President, and Robert Watt, AFL international representative, chair- man and executive secretary of the committee. Ambitious and eager to be in the ilmellght, both Woll and Watt have been unified at not landing sop defense jobs.
 After listening to the fiery blast of BrleklayeF Bates, tho caucus decided unanimously (il that killman and his labor advisory committee were doing an efficient Job: @ that nc good pnrpose could be served by the commit tee. and fal that building fradss~ men representation in tho defense eetip ieHtaIee thnt in FHfIlman'1 Ga#anl1aAagnl nll0ula cems Gzem