The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-02

NOTES OF A NEW YORKER
 From the column of Dec. 2s: w, R. Davis, connected with Nazi oil deals for years and operating oil cracking plants at Hamburg, Ger many, is allegedly behind the new drive against aid to Britain"
 ,. From Page l of the New York Times, Dec. 3l, 194O: "Mr. Marshall Revealed in passing that MT. Davis --whos he said, has sold Mexican oil to Germany and Italy and is well acquainted with high Nazi officials is backing the No Foreign Wars Committee with an offer to under write its expenses"
 < From Tuesdays Times: "Then without the spur of further question: ing about MT. Davis, MT. Marshall sped on to allege an attempt on the part of certain newspapers and col-' umnistS to smear Davis as 8 NaI and Q man who sold to Germany and Italy the oil with which they have annihilated continental Flu rope"
 Memo from my Girl Friday: ''The boys in Washington at the Verne Marshall interview said you were mentioned by name."
 Verne Marshall is the editor of the paper in which this column appears in Cedar Rapids. He once sent us petulant letter because we were Roosevelt booster ]. Intimates, however, exp.ain him and his new pastirne, the No Foreign Wars Com mittee, with these words: "He loves America, but not so much as he hates Roosevelt.p
 Gen. Wood, Verne Marshall and Senator Wheeler of "The Lindbergh Line'' didn't appreciate FDR's fire cracker chat, in which he pledged aid to Britain. That appeasement bunch has been yapping that they represent the great majority of Americans" .. The latest Gallup Poll, however, reveals that the g. m. Q. Americans believe in aiding Britain {. The Christian Science Monitor remarks in an editorial: Possibly, from defense standpoint, it would be worth the expense to let MT. Wheeler and MT. Marshall go across as special emissaries to try to talk the Nazis into being nice. A number of others have been dis illusioned by that process" {. Raymond Clapper says 1t neatly: 'sThe only sign of weakening appears to have been limited to some busi- nessmen, who thought, before the war, that they could rely on Hitler --and that it was better to play ball with him than have to share their wealth with the rest of the people of England, as result of social changes growing out of the war.
 The N. Y. W.-TeIegram, which has been sniping at Roosevelt's foreign policy, praised his tfireside talk in which he merely reiterated his foreign policy viewpoint :. You figger 1t out, we have col- yum to do Not-So-G Gayda is making all sorts of threats at the U. S. because of FDR's speech :. Some dopes never learn Gay da's the bloke who predicted the worst kind of defeat for the Greeks Our native ostriches have al- ways rapped those who criticize the Axis. They claim that the Axis will be friendly to us if we're nice to them Last week Senators Holt, Wheeler and Vandenburg tried being nice to the dictators by urging that FDR try to make peace in Yurrop :. So what happened? The Rome rags said their proposals were very disgusting"
 The January Readers Digest has a piece about the situation in AL aska .. They tell of the Japanese laundryman there who was popular with everyone But when he died, he was buried in the uniform of a commander of the Japanese Navy! The New York cinema critics, who gave Chaplin's film a drubbing, have just selected his performance in 1t as the best of the year Roosevelt has done the best job yet of putting Hitler in his