The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-18


 paths almost crossed.
 Willkie missed Hamilton by just one day. But though he didn't see John, he heard all about his sales talk. John addressed group of businc $ men and had suddenly shifted his argu- ment against Willkie to this new line:
 Russia will make such fierce demands or Poland" Hamilton said, in effect, that there will be a strong American reaction against Russia. Therefore, we must not nominate anyone like Willkie who has been friendly to Russia"
 What interested Willkie was the fact that exactly this same argument has suddenly cropped up in other quarters, and his friends have traced 1t right to one spot New York's Waldorf As toria hotel and the apartment of Herbert Hoover.
 Hoover, who bitterly opposed Russian recognition while he Was in the White House, has been passing out word that the re- action against Russia would come soon and that the Republican Party must not get encountered with anyone like Willkie who is pro-RuSsian.
 Meanwhile, Governor Tom Dewey Is reported as having re- marked to friends that he had been seeing quite bit of Polish leaders recently.
 Also, Ali LandOn conferred with Hoover before making his draft-Dewey statement. Shortly thereafter, Hamilton, returning from his long trek, came out for Dewey, which means that Pennsylvania Joe Pew Is also for Dewey.
 Those who have talked to Her. bert Hoover say they are con- vinced he does not want to run again himself, but that they have never seen him so determined to pick the candidate and guide the destinieS of the Republican party. CLASH OVER SOLDIERS VOTE
 Debonair, dashing Senator Bur net Maybank, of South Carolina rushed to the telephone the other night, demanded that the Federal Communications Commis- sion take a certain radio com- mentator off the air.
 Maybank was beside himself with fury because the commenta- tor had reported that Maybank's predecessor in the Senate, War Mobilizer James Byrnes, disagreed with Southern Senators regarding the Soldier-vote bill and paid trib- ute to Senator Claude Pepper of Florida as the only southern Sen- ator with enough Statesmanship to put the soldiers vote ahead of race prejudice.
 What was not mentioned on the radio, but what was fact never less, was that ex-Senator Byrnes was especially provoked with his old friend and fellow South Caro- unian Maybank. It was Byrnes who did most to elect Maybank to office. Without Byrnes' power full support, the junior senator from South Carolina would have got nowhere.
 Hence, shortly after May banks vCte against the soldier vote bill member of ByrneS' staff gave Maybank some plain, unadulterated language. "The country would have been much better off," he said, If we had left you in Charleston"
 NOTE: Another thing Senator Maybank didn't know was that Byrnes was instrumental in get ting ailing Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, another real states man, to write a letter from his home, coming out for the sol- dierS' vote.
 MILO PERKINS
 AND PRESIDENT
 Milo Perkins, the man who suf- fered most - aside from the pub lie in the Jesse JoneS-Henry Wallace Row, is being considered to head up General Aniline and Dye under an arrangement with the Alien Property Custodian. General Aniline and Dye, which had strong German hook-ups be- fore Pearl Harbor and owns valu- able German patents. is being reorganized as an all-American company, and 1t is proposed that Perkins would be a good watch dog to see that the organization did not lean back toward Ger many after the war.
 Final decision in the matter
 probably will be made at the