The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-06

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 And since the President did not push it, in fact seemed lukeWarm about it, the ma.,er was dropped.
 Around this revoives the fact that enc of the most colorful and Lighted trusters in the Presi- dents entire entourage has now dropped almost completely out of the readlines. Once his name was hurled back and forth in Congress. Once the Republican National Committee used his name as one of its chief criticisms of the New Deal. But now his name is heard almost never.
 This, unquestionably, is a big relief to Tommy the Cork" be- cause he is more thin skinned about publicity than almost any plima donna in Washington. and Washington has more than it's quota of thin skinned prilna doll- mas.
 However, it is no relief that, having resigned his REC job last summer to organize the ln- dependent Voters Committee for Roosevelt (along with Mayor LaGuarGlia and Senator NOrris), CorcOran now finds himself without a salary and no longer on intimate terms with the President.
 DOMESTIC REFORMS OVER
 There are several reasons for this lack of intimacy. One is that jealousy has arisen be.ween once good friends Corcoran and Harry Hopkins. Today Hopkins sees Roosevelt all the time, Corcoran almost never.
 Another reason is that Roose- welt has finished the domestic phase of the New Deal, now is concentrating upon foreign affairs and national defense. Tommy was the expert on holding corpora tions, social security, curbing the stock market, and a dozen other reforms which the New Deal put across in the first eight years.
 But today the President rests Vh kAAD O01 D. OVCSA WaAS 0AsJ controversial issues to interfere with the arms program.
 Another factor Is that Corcor- an is now married to 8 beauti- full and expressing wife, and just naturally fell out of the habit of spending days and nights writ ing speeches in the White House.
 There is no break between the two men. and Roosevelt seems anxious to avoid break. Talk ing to a close friend who was urg- ing Corcoran's appointment as national defense counselor, he asked:
 'IS Tommy sore at mel"
 The President has indicated that he might appoint Corcoran & full-fledged member of the Re- construction Finance Corporation, with which he had only a legal job before. But Roosevelt made it clear-from his lack of enthusi- asm-that he was not anxious to have his famous No. 1 Brain 1EuSVCI III d 4ldtAO1Id4 uCAC41oC pOSL where, despite his bril,iance, he might be an object of controversy. FRENCH EXILE
 Of the many political refugees in the United States. one of the most distinguished, also one of the most pathetic, is Alexis Leger, for mer General Secretary for For eign Affairs of France.
 For years he was the No. ? man in the French Foreign Office and one of the outstanding diplomats of Europe. For years he worked for European peace, disarmament and to strengthen the Kellogg Pact. Now in danger of his life, he is in the United States, ar- irving after the fall of France.
 Some time ago, M. Leger came to Washington from New York, where he has been living, and had an interview with Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, and the man who holds the American job comparable to that of Leger in France.
 Leger told Welles that he had