The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05


 at Lake Geneva, wisconsin. This paper, it has now been revealed, operated Q sensitive short wave receiving set capable of picking up even the faintest messages from Berlin.
 Meanwhile, in Washington, Con- gressrnan Fish's office has been in touch with other isolationist congressman, where favorable fan mall has been picked up and turned over to compiling centers which added to the master uail- ing list,
 Ham Flsh's secretary, George Hlll, also told the grand Jury that he had spent Q total Os $l9,O00 in about six months for reprints of lsolatlonist speeches inserted ln the Congressional Record. These were mailed out tO those on the master list. Hlll dld not testify, however, AS tO who paid him che money.
 When this Is disclosed, Congress and the public should have Q bet- ter Idea of who Is behind this, the most ramlfied and carefully organized mass propaganda At- tempt this country has ever seen. CAPITAL CHAFF
 Picture of futility: Charming French Ambassador Henri-Haye at banquet, volubly trying to convince Hitler-hating Senators Pepper of Florida and Green of Rhode Island that Vichy's cole Liberation with Berlin is clean and innocent Stamp collec. tors don't like Postmaster General Frank walker as much as they did Jim Farley, walker has dropped Farley's practice of putting out frequent Issues of new stamps .. Before the war, Q resident of Alex andria, Virginia, joined the Mar. inc Corps Reserves for the priv. ilege of using the army and navy Country club, near his home. He really didn't mean to get Into the service - but along came the war, the Reserves were called to active duty, and he was sent to Iceland -on the Greer Intervention. ist Senator George of Georgia gets many a letter reading, "If you had . son in the army, you wouldn't be so eager -, etc. Georges younger son, Joseph Marcus, is serving in the Atlantic patrol More worried than anybody else in the Capital about the effect of priorities on business is Wyo- ming's earnest senator. Joe o. Mahoney Senatorial offices are flooded with reuests from people who want promotion in the Army and Navy. Even an oc- casional colonel asks his senator to help him become a general. JAPAN'S UPS AND DOWNS
 The inside facts regarding the Japanese negotiations are that once in the past week the two gov- ernments were on the brink of an agreement, while three days later they were so near the precipice of war that orders actually had been issued to the, U. s. Navy.
 And before this gets into print, the situation may be com- pletely reversed again.
 The hopes for a peace agree ment reached their climax a week ago Tuesday. The prospects for war looked worse on the Sunday when President Roosevelt left Warm Springs for Washington. It was expected then that Japan would move into Thailand within 24 hours. In that case U. s. sub- marines and bombers were defln- itely prepared to go after Jap- anese transport ships bearing troops south.
 The barometer of these dip- lOmatic ups and downs Is just one factor Russia. AS Russia stiffens, to an equal extent Japan relaxes her bellicose demands on the U. S. A. And as Russia retreats before Hitler, Japan RtiRfens.
 Fundamental fact about Japan is that she is trying to bet on the winner. However, he war lords are convinced that if the United States and Britain succeed in de- feating the totafitarian states, Japan won't have a smell In China. so they think tnoig only real