The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-11

the damage and Hitler has or- ganized demolition and repair squads which travel from one city to another :. So many Germans have fled to Norway because of bombings that there is hardly "a house in Oslo where Germans are not quartered. This is in ad- dition to soldiers U. s. con- sular reports from Bombay state that the General Motors plant there is working only 25 per cent because of civil diSobedience . Inside fact is that Gandhi's can1- paign is much more serious than censored news indicates. The British are determined to give the impression that they have the Indian situation well in hand !. Military grapevine reports that the Nazis have been putting more pressure on the Japs to attack Siberia. Pressure is similar to that which Hitler exerted on the Japs before Pearl Harbor . More Jap troops are reported leav- ing China and moving north.
 WE STILL BUY GOLD
 How delicate the pro-Nazi situa- tion is among the Boers of South Africa is illustrated by the fact that the United States is still buying gold from South Africa and burying it in the ground at Fort Knox.
 For some time various govern
 ment officials have proposed
 that we cut off the purchase of
 gold, since it is now considered
 the most useless metal in the
 world. However, the State De-
 partment has said.
 The State Department warns that if gold purchases were cut off, South African gold mines would close down and there would be labor unrest which would up- set the war effort. Also 1t might unseat General San Shuts, chief friend of Great Britain in South Africa, who is not having an easy time of it. Tn addition to India, the State Department believes we should keep a help ful eye on this part of the British Empire.
 However, Milo Perkins, head of
 the Board of Economic War . fare, has pointed out that in
 addition to gold, South Africa
 is rich in tremendous quantities
 of chrome and other valuable
 ores vitaIIy needed in the U. S.
 A. So he has proposed buying
 these ores from South Africa
 instead of gold.
 The State Department was not exactly happy about this sugges- ton, but Perkins got around 1t by sending a "gOld expert" to South Africa. However, it was carefully and quietly arranged that the "gOId expert" should also be an expert on chrome and the other ores. He will look into these while he is in South Africa.
 NOTE: The delicate South Af- rican political situation was be- hind the removal of General Auchlnleck. blamed by the Bores for the fall of Tohruk and Rom. mel's earlier victory.
 CAPITAL cHAFF
 George Lane, Democratic candis date for governor of Maine, got a ei i.62S 600 deposit from the Navy in advance on his recent munitions contracts. Yet Lane told Maine voters he had to EcEape around fOs money to meet his payroll ., Senator "0uF Bob" Reynolds of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Commit lee, received R check fer $500 from John R, C00ney, chairman Of the 6lFaFd Fire and Marine Insurance company tor wh0selaae suh&eFip. tlenH 10 Reynolds newspaper, s'khs flndleaieF." Reynolds donled tlle paper was pye-F Fascist, has fins ally abandoned publication ,,,. C00noN e Tesldellt Of MapleWood, V, O. is also president 0f FlFos mans Insurance co, and ssss= sss= ehanies Insurance co, sss Before the end el September, meat paeks fis Will be directed te eut prQ'