The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-11

man in the world? The Russians looked pleased. Others looked at the British ambassador. Would he accept Stalin as greater than Churchill? Or would Cowles toast Roosevelt? Or was it Willkie?
 Cowles enjoyed the suspense for 2 moment, then continued:
 II toast the unknown Rus sian soldier who Is winning this war!"
 The entire gathering was on its feet. Cowles had outdone Barnes. STALIN SPEAKS
 Thirty-second and next toast of the evening was that of Major Grant Mason. Mason is a for mer director of Pan American Airways, former members of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and a crack flyer. He does not, how ever, pretend to be a speaker, and little did he dream that his speech was to have the most startling reverberations of the evening. Mason's toast consisted of a straightforward tribute to Russian and allied pilots who dare in the air which they share"
 The interpreters complained Il at they couldn't translate this il. 0 Russian and make it rhyme. But 1t rhymed with Stalin.
 For after the champagne glasses clicked in honor of Al- lied and Russian flyers and the company started to sit down,
 suddenly they discovered that they could not sit down. For Josef Stalin, head of all Russia, was speaking.
 He agreed with the tribute to the flyers. But he went on to say that many Russian flyers were flying cast-off equipment. with planes the Allies did not want. With the British am- bassador listening. Stalin blunt ly told how, when the United States finally did send some of the latest airplane models, they had been taken off the ship in Scotland. Russia never got them.
 Stalin finished. There was painful silence. Suddenly the deep voice of Wendell Willkie boomed forth in a soothing, dip- lomatic speech on the import ance of being frank among our selves. Good Allies must be frank. he said. but there was also the danger that differ ences might pull the Allies apart. This, he said, was what Hitler wanted most.
 Later the British ambassador made @ brief speech in which he gave g. complimentary appraisal of Stalin, his leadership. and all the things he had done for his country.
 That ended probably the most historic Moscow dinner ever held in honor of . visiting dig nitary.
 NOTE-Stalin was quite correct that first class American planes were taken off a Russian-bound ship by the British. But he did not know that Gen. Eisenhower, preparing for an African front. and knowing that Airacobras were on the ships, went to Prime Min- ister Churchill personally and d.- manded the planes. Churchill fin- ally gave them to him.
 DEMOCRATIC REVOLT
 Smouldering resentment inside the Democratic Party has flared out against it's present leader ship and has eliminated in the call for a meteing of Midwest Democratic leaders at Omaha on Saturday.
 At the meeting will be the Dem- ocratic staet chairmen or other leaders from Iowa, Kansas. Col- orado, Missouri. Minnesota, Me- braSka, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming.
 Ht win be . trump conference held without the official sanction of Washington, but nevertheless with the tacit ap- pEoval 0f some bigwlgs inside the Democratic National Committee.
 Purpose of the Omaha meet- Ing is tc form . bloc or coalition